{"id":289749,"date":"2010-02-07T10:43:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T15:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/2358"},"modified":"2010-02-07T10:43:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T15:43:12","slug":"teaching-earth-science-with-children%e2%80%99s-literature-the-planets-in-our-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/289749","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Earth Science with Children\u2019s Literature: The Planets in our Solar System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2010\/02\/books.jpg\" title=\"Direct link to file\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"95\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2010\/02\/books.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"books.jpg\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Introduction and Summary<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">In <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=r7wJ5x2rR58C&amp;q=The+Planets+in+our+solar+system&amp;dq=The+Planets+in+our+solar+system&amp;cd=1\">The Planets In Our Solar System<\/a>, by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/?ie=UTF8&amp;keywords=branley+franklyn&amp;tag=googhydr-20&amp;index=stripbooks&amp;hvadid=1149538601&amp;ref=pd_sl_vl1oaei4r_b\">Franklyn Branley<\/a>, the author reviews the nine planets; including Pluto in the discussion.\u00a0 The author explains that several of the planets look like bright stars; but for others (Uranus and Neptune) you would need a telescope to see them.\u00a0 This text explains that asteroids, comets, and meteoroids are part of the solar system and describes each.\u00a0 This book explains to students that the planets move around the sun in orbits.\u00a0 The author informs that the coldest planets are those farthest away from the sun (Neptune).\u00a0 Mercury and Venus are the hottest planets as they are the closest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Curriculum Connections<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">This text would be a great resource for a fourth grade classroom to learn the planets in the solar system, their order, and their sizes.\u00a0 This book includes excellent visual aids for students to gain a clearer understanding of these concepts.\u00a0 It provides several different pictorial representations\u00a0of these concepts, as well as a chart that explains how long it would\u00a0take for each planet to go\u00a0around the sun.\u00a0\u00a0(VA SOL 4.7 a, b, c).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This text\u00a0further provides two\u00a0projects that students can complete.\u00a0 One involves\u00a0creating a mobile of the solar system to show the differnet sizes of the planets.\u00a0 Another project involves\u00a0using a wall to make a model to demosntrate the nine planets and their distances from the\u00a0sun.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Additional Resources<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abcteach.com\/free\/k\/kwl_solar_system_color.pdf\">KWL:<\/a> This site provides a booklet for students to record what they know, what they want to know, and what they have leanred about the solar system.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov\/docs\/StarChild\/solar_system_level1\/activity\/solar_system_shuffle.html\">Solar System Shuffle<\/a>: Game in which students match the\u00a0planet with the correct description.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov\/docs\/StarChild\/solar_system_level1\/activity\/planet_go.html\">Where, or Where Does that Little Object Go<\/a>:\u00a0 Game in which students match which planet goes into which orbit on the map.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>General Information<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Book:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=r7wJ5x2rR58C&amp;q=the+planets+in+our+solar+system&amp;dq=the+planets+in+our+solar+system&amp;cd=1\">The Planets in our Solar System<\/a><br \/>\nAuthor: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?ie=UTF8&amp;rh=i%3Astripbooks%2Cp_27%3AFranklyn%20M.%20Branley&amp;field-author=Franklyn%20M.%20Branley&amp;page=1\">Franklyn Branley<\/a><br \/>\nIlustrator: Don Madden<br \/>\nPublisher: Harper Collins Publishers<br \/>\nPublication Date: 1981<br \/>\nPages: 32<br \/>\nGrade:\u00a0K-4<br \/>\nISBN: 0-690-04579-4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction and Summary: In The Planets In Our Solar System, by Franklyn Branley, the author reviews the nine planets; including Pluto in the discussion.\u00a0 The author explains that several of the planets look like bright stars; but for others (Uranus and Neptune) you would need a telescope to see them.\u00a0 This text explains that asteroids, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4211,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}