The Common Core Series is the 2014 winner of the Smart Book Award from Academics’ Choice.You are purchasing the Paperback format of this book. How to Use the
Solar System - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
• Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
• Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.
• Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
• Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!
Click
HERE to view sample pages from this book.
Tips:
• Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
• Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5" X 11", enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.
• To download the graphic organizers labeled "GO" in the Table of Contents click
HERE.
• Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.
The
Solar System - Common Core Lessons and Activities includes:
• Reading for Information
• Higher-Order Thinking
• Writing Problems
• Primary Source Analysis
• Vocabulary
• Graphic Organizers
• Map Activities
• & More!
Here is the Table of Contents for the
Solar System - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:Solar System: Reading Informational Text
Ancient Astronomy: Main Idea
GInner Planets: Applying Concepts
GOuter Planets: Applying Concepts
G Inner and Outer Planets: Compare & Contrast
GO1Putting It All Together: Interpreting Visual Data
Night Sky Observation Log: Classifying Information
GLabeling the Solar System: Graphic Organizer
GHeliocentric & Geocentric: Reading Informational Text
Temperature: Data Analysis
Rotation and Revolution: Cause & Effect
Distance from the Sun: Data Analysis
Asteroids: Reading Informational Text
Earth's Moon: Compare & Contrast
GO4To the Moon!: Reading Literature
What Is Pluto?: Reading Informational Text
Tools for Space Exploration: Vocabulary
GCommon Core State Standards Correlations
G: Includes Graphic Organizer
GO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8 1/2" x 11" online download
HERE.
(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)