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Overview During this unit students will learn about planets and the solar system. Students will learn about the size, shape and location of planets. Students will gain understanding of the solar system by utilizing technology applications.

Student Audience 2nd Grade

Time Frame 3 Weeks

Rationale ~To fulfill district standards ~ To ensure students have an understanding of the world and space around them.

Unit Objectives ~To gain a basic understanding of planets, stars and space. ~To utilize technology applications in the classroom.

Unit Standards  Students know and understand the processes and interactions of Earth's systems and the structure and dynamics of Earth and other objects in space.

Phases of the Moon media type="custom" key="9188796" align="right" <span style="color: #2353d0; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Blue Moon
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<span style="color: #2359d0; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">During this lesson students will be exploring the different phases of the moon. Students will learn briefly about what makes the moon change shape and how the phases occur.
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<span style="color: #2359d0; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Using the Sketchfu (http://sketchfu.com) and the learning aid below, draw a timeline illustrating the different phases of the moon. After you have created your moon shapes, print it out and label each one of the moon phases. Additionally, the learning aid can be used as a reference to understand moon phases.
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<span style="color: #2359d0; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Also, check out the current phase of the moon in the corner of this lesson!

<span style="color: #2359d0; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">media type="custom" key="9188862" <span style="color: #2353d0; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The technology used in this unit will give students an easy to read reference guide. The Word handout delivers basic information on the phases of the moon.
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<span style="color: #2353d0; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">My Discovery
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<span style="color: #2353d0; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">After researching the planet of their choice, students will use PowerPoint and Slideshare to present the information they found to the class.
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<span style="color: #2353d0; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">First gather 3 interesting facts about your planet. Then using the internet, locate pictures that help explain your facts. Using Microsoft PowerPoint, create a slide show with the information and pictures you have gathered. After your presentation is completed, use Slideshare to upload the presentation. Use the example below for ideas on creating your presentation. Your creations will be presented to the class! media type="custom" key="8507654"
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<span style="color: #2353d0; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">This unit will give students the opportunity to illustrate the facts they have learned in a creative, fun way. By publishing a slideshow on the web, they are using technology applications to create something that is uniquely theirs. The skills needed to use PowerPoint and Slideshare are useful and relevant to the world around them. In addition to learning planet facts they are learning about applications that will continue to be used in the 21st century.
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<span style="color: #2353d0; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Imagine a new planet
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<span style="color: #2353d0; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Strange New World
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<span style="color: #2353d0; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">In this lesson, students will pretend that they have discovered a new planet. They will come up with characteristics of their new planet and use Tikatok to write about what they have discovered.
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<span style="color: #2353d0; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Come up with three facts about the new planet that you have discovered. The facts can be about the size, shape, color or inhabitants of your planet. Give the new planet that you have discovered a name. Then draw pictures or use the Internet to find images for your story. Using www.tikatok.com, write a book about your new planet. Use the example below for ideas for your book. media type="custom" key="8508096"
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 * <span style="color: #2353d0; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|www.tikatok.com]
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<span style="color: #2353d0; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Using a technology application like Ticatok, students can take books to a whole new level! They can write and create stories and not only share with their classmates, but with people all around the world. Students are learning how to write and publish with up to date tools.
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<span style="color: #2353d0; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Send a message from space!
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<span style="color: #2353d0; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Control Room
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<span style="color: #2353d0; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">In this lesson, students will choose a planet to visit. Using the information they have learned about the planets, they will create a short message describing what they saw on the planet. Using Blabberize as a recording tool, they will record their message for friends and family on Earth to hear.
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<span style="color: #2353d0; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Choose one planet that you would like to visit. Write 3 or 4 descriptive sentences about the planet. With my help, upload a photo of yourself to the computer. Using Blabberize, record yourself and attach your uploaded picture. Use the example below to help you with ideas. media type="custom" key="8508460" width="70" height="70"
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<span style="color: #2353d0; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The technology in this unit will help reinforce the information that students have learned about a planet. Students will be reiterating information in a fun unique way. Students are able to be imaginative and creative while they are using useful technology tools.
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<span style="color: #2359d0; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Gathering information on the Solar System media type="custom" key="9262950" <span style="color: #1a5bce; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">I Spy with my Little Eye......
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<span style="color: #2359d0; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">In this lesson students will use the internet to gather information on each of the planets, as well as the sun. They will search for the answer to 10 questions that can be found in the corresponding websites. This lesson will expand the students knowledge of the planets in the Solar System.
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<span style="color: #2359d0; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Use the Solar System Search as a tool to gather information about the Solar System. Answer each of the 10 questions using the information found on the websites.
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<span style="color: #2359d0; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">This lesson will allow students to utilize the internet to gather pertinent information about the Solar System. They are using current technology to learn about a topic that has information that dates back hundreds of years.
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<span style="color: #2353d0; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Persuasive Essay <span style="color: #2353d0; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The Great Planet Debate! <span style="color: #2353d0; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">In this lesson students are required to research the recent planet declassification of Pluto. After they have heard both sides of the argument they are to decide where they stand and write a two page paper on their decision. <span style="color: #1a5bce; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Using resources and guidelines found on my [|Tumblr blog], decide which side of the great planet debate you are on. Watch the video provided and use the linked resources as well as the list of books below for some reference ideas. The rubric on the blog will illustrate what I am looking for in a final paper. <span style="color: #2353d0; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|The Great Planet Debate Tumblr Blog]
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<span style="color: #2353d0; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The books listed below, or others that you come across that may be helpful in making your decision. media type="custom" key="8682704"

<span style="color: #1a5bce; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">This lesson gives students a way to use technology to solve a relevant scientific debate. Displaying the information on a blog page allows easy accessibility and multimedia interactivity. Even the books are displayed in a technology application that is fresh and fun. This keeps kids engaged and interested and turns what may be a boring paper into something that seems current and relevant.
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<span style="color: #1a5bce; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Space in Current Eventsmedia type="custom" key="9188788" align="right" <span style="color: #1a5bce; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Space Stories <span style="color: #0060ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">This lesson puts a new spin on the traditional current event assignment. Students will gather information pertaining to recent news involving space or the solar system. They will then use Vocaroo to create a podcast to report the news. <span style="color: #0060ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Use popular news websites (CNN, FOX, MSNBC) or the NASA website to locate three articles to report on. <span style="color: #0060ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Summarize the information into three separate paragraphs that can each be read aloud in about a minute apiece. <span style="color: #0060ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Come up with a title for your podcast. <span style="color: #0060ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Use Vocaroo to record your podcasts. <span style="color: #0060ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Post the recordings on our classroom page for the other students to hear. <span style="color: #0060ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Find two other student's podcasts to comment on.
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<span style="color: #0060ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The recordings below can be used as examples. media type="file" key="Spacecast 1.wav" width="300" height="50" media type="file" key="Spacecast 3.wav" width="300" height="50" media type="file" key="Spacecast 3.wav" width="300" height="50" <span style="color: #0060ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The Internet to gather information <span style="color: #0060ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Vocaroo-To record the podcast. <span style="color: #0060ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">This lesson is a great way for students to find current information that is applicable to the topic we are covering. It is delivered it in a fun, creative and relevant way. It allows students to use current technology personalize and synthesize information from the outside.
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<span style="color: #0060ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Digital Storytelling <span style="color: #0060ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Solar System Story <span style="color: #0060ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Students will write a story about planets or the solar system, then record it digitally. <span style="color: #0060ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">With a partner, collaborate on a topic that interests you about the solar system or the things in it. Then write a story and find pictures on the internet to illustrate it.Compile the pictures and record the narration using Photo Story. Use the example below for ideas. <span style="color: #0060ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Internet Access** <span style="color: #0060ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Photo Story** media type="youtube" key="3WTPr0Hq0ik?hl=en" height="344" width="425"
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<span style="color: #0060ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">This assignment allows students to take information and facts and turn it into a memorable story. They are using technology to make a multimedia presentation that can be shared by people all over.
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<span style="color: #0060ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Planets in the solar system <span style="color: #0060ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Planet Placement <span style="color: #0060ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Students will identify, label and place the planets in our solar system.
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<span style="color: #0060ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Using [|Picasa] locate pictures of each of the planets in our solar system. As you pick a picture of each planet, place them in a [|scrapblog]. Place each of the planets in the order that they are from the sun. Label the planets and decorate the scrapbook page. The embed the finished product on our classroom page for others to see!
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<span style="color: #0060ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Below is an example: media type="custom" key="9189056" align="right"

<span style="color: #0060ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Picasa <span style="color: #0060ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Scrapblog <span style="color: #0060ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This assignment is a fun way for students to build research skills and learn the fundamentals of the solar system at the same time. Instead of testing to measure understanding, children are creating a visual image to show the concepts they have learned.
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<span style="color: #0060ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Retention of Information <span style="color: #0060ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">You are a Star! <span style="color: #0060ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Now that we have reached the end of our unit, it is time to talk about what has been learned. In this lesson students will interview another student about what they have learned. Then they will work together to create an Animoto video to share with the class.
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<span style="color: #0060ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Come up with 5 facts each of things that you have learned during this unit. Then find pictures to go along with each of the facts. Have your partner interview you, using Audicity audio recording about your findings. After you have your sound clips, incorporate music and pictures to your information using Animoto. Use the video below as a guide.
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<span style="color: #1a5bce; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Audacity** <span style="color: #1a5bce; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Animoto** <span style="color: #1a5bce; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Internet** media type="custom" key="9263728"
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<span style="color: #0060ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This lesson is a great way to wrap up what has been studied. It has the students apply information in a fun way using many different applications of technology. The students are reiterating information much like they would have to on a test, but in a much more creative way.
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