GRADE 8 - Lesson Title: The Sun - Earth - Moon System
Textbook and Chapter: Blue Chapter 3
Objectives
- Examine Earth’s physical characteristics.
- Differentiate between rotation and revolution.
- Discuss what causes seasons to change.
- Identify phases of the Moon and their cause.
- Explain why solar and lunar eclipse occur.
- Infer what the moon’s surface features may reveal about history.
- Describe recent discoveries about the moon.
- Examine facts about the moon and space travel.
Set, Hook, Focus
Is there really a man in the moon?
Learning Tasks
Content delivery will be via key notes slide show, with students utilizing note taking worksheets. Cooperative learning will be an integral part of the learning process (Think, write, pair, share).
- Section 1: Students will define all vocabulary words in chapter, students will make a foldable to record vocabulary words; Explore Activity - Model Rotation and Revolution - Text page 73; Copy Table 1 - Physical Properties of Earth - Text Page 75; Directed reading - Key terms - Res Page 20; reinforcement - Earth - Res Page 25; Section assessment questions and answers in pairs Page 79.
- Section 2: Lab Demonstration - Solar Eclipses - Text Page 84; NGEO - Visualizing the Moon’s surface - Text Page 86; Section assessment questions and answers in pairs - Page 87; reinforcement - The Moon - Res Page 26; Enrichment - Comparing Eclipses - Res Page 29.
- Section 3: Directed Reading - Res Page 19; Reinforcement - Exploring Earth’s Moon - res Page 27; Section assessment questions and answers in pairs Page 93.
Evaluation/Assessment
- Class discussions, assessment questioning.
- Vocabulary Test Thursday