Introduction
Welcome to the Stage 2! In this stage, you'll be the master of the solar planets. If you successfully show yourself how well you know about the characteristics of each planets, you'll be the one and only master of the solar planets. Are you ready to get an honor? Then, let's start the Stage 2!
Task
First, you will read the text of solar planets. While you're reading, you will know the characteristics of structure, time, appearance, life cycle of each planet.
Second, you will make the questions about the important characteristics of planets based on what you read. For example, you can make the question like this: What is the feature of the Sun's life cycle? In this way, you will make one question per each planet. (total 8 questions)
Third, you will answer the questions that other friends made. It is an relay question activity to make one question for another friend and answer one question that another friend made. In this way, you will answer one question pear each planet. (total 8 question)
Process
Step 1: Read the description of the characteristics of each planet on the NASA website.
All About the Sun | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids
Step 2: Make questions about the characteristics of each planet, and answer each other on the tkbell website.
The first student answers the questions that the teacher made and writes the questions that he made underneath them.
The second student answers the questions made by the first student and writes the questions he made underneath them.
In this way, let's continue to ask and answer questions to each other. You have to comment on all eight planets once at a time.
https://www.tkbell.co.kr/tkboard/woi/1369216/9inF1zSP4t.do?pageSeq=1483079 (Password: 1111)
Evaluation
| Criteria | Excellent(4) | Good(3) | Satisfactory(2) | Needs Improvement(1) |
| Accuracy | Correctly understand the core characteristics of the planet | Know the core characteristics of a planet | Know the characteristics of planet | Does not know the characteristics of planet |
| Participation | make 8 question and answer 8 question | make more than 7 questions and answer more than 7 question | make more than 6 questions and answer more than 6 question | make less than 6 question and answer less than 6 question |
Conclusion
Congratulations! You successfully show yourself how well you know about the characteristics of each planets. So you are now the one and only master of the solar planets.
Think back to this stage: What kind of planets were in the solar system? What were the important characteristics of each planet?
Teacher Page
The goal of this session is for students to know about the important characteristics of each solar planet. By making questions about solar planets themselves, they can deeply understand the solar planets.