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AREA: Science - 6th Grade - BOOK: “HSP-SCIENCE. Harcourt School Publishers –6th GRADE” - Chapter 11 Weeks 1-4

Week 1

TOPICS – CHAPTER 11: THE UNIVERSE NEAR AND FAR.

ACHIEVMENT :
 I understand that bodies in space have constant motion and unique characteristics that we can observe with telescopes and satellites.

ACHIEVMENTS INDICATORS:
 I explain what are some Earth-Moon-Sun.
 I explain what causes the phases of the moon.
 I identify what is in the Solar System.
 I explain what is beyond the solar System.

EVALUATION STRATEGIES:
Evaluation observation (development of the class, participation, individual and group performance)
Participation in socialization of results obtained in the various activities of the area and in the analysis of applied problems.

ACTIVITIES – LESSON 1 – WHAT ARE SOME EARTH-MOON-SUN INTERACTIONS?

 Write in your notebook the vocabulary of page 491 or the vocabulary that you consider new or unknown for you.
 Search something new about the Universe on Internet. Write it in your notebook.
 Read pages 494, 495, 496,497,498 and answer the following questions on your notebook:
 What causes days, years, and seasons?
 What causes eclipses and tides?
 What are some Earth moon-sun interactions?
 How would the seasons be different if Earth´s axis were not tilted?
  Draw and explain what is “the effect Diamond Ring”
 What happens at the Bay of Fundy during a spring Tide?

Week 2

ACTIVITIES – LESSON 2 – WHAT CAUSES THE PHASES OF THE MOON?

 Write in your notebook the fast fact of page 502.

 What are the phases of the moon?
 Which places occurs when the moon is on the opposite side of Earth from the sun?
 Read page 508 and write 5 main ideas about What Galileo does
 Finally answer on your notebook What causes the phases of the moon?

Week 3

ACTIVITIES – LESSON 3 – WHAT IS IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM?

 Read pages 510,511, 514-520 and answer.

 Which is the planet that we can observe from earth? 
 What is the largest planet?
 Solve all the sections “Main idea and details”

Week 4

ACTIVITIES – LESSON 4 – WHAT IS BEYOND THE SOLAR SYSTEM?

 Write in your notebook the fast fact and draw a picture that represent it
 Read pages 526,527,528,529, and answer the following questions.
 What types of stars can we observe?
 What are their cycles?
 How does scientists identify galaxies and explain the formation of the universe
 Read page 532 and answer what are two details that support the Big Bang theory?