Space Probes to the Planets

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Space Probes to the Planets

• Amy ODonnell
• Kiser Elementary School
• Grade 4

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NCSOS Objectives

• Language Arts
• 1.05 Use word reference materials to identify
  and comprehend unknown words.
• 2.02 Interact with text before, during, and
  after reading, listening, and viewing by making
  predictions, formulating questions, locating
  relevant information, making connections with
  previous experiences, information and ideas.
• 2.07 Determine usefulness of information and
  ideas consistent with purpose.
• 4.06 Compose a draft that conveys major ideas
  and maintains focus on the topic with specific,
  relevant, supporting details by preliminary
  plans.
• Technology
• 1.11 Identify and discuss the use of multimedia
  tolls to report content area information.
• 1.12 Recognize, discuss, and use multimedia
  terms/concepts.

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Essential Question

• How does text structure help you to understand a
  selection?

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Text Structure

• Text structure is the way a piece of writing is
  organized. There are two main kinds of writing,
  fiction and nonfiction.
• Fiction tells stories of people and events that
  an author creates. Fiction is usually organized
  by the order in which things happen.
• Nonfiction tells of real people and events or
  tells information about the real world. Some
  ways to organize nonfiction are cause and effect,
  problem and solution, and comparison and contrast.

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Out-Of-This-World Rocks

• Space Both Earth
• Rocks Rocks

• More metal
• Heavier
• Glassy crust
• Darker

• Less metal
• Lighter in weight
• Lack glassy crust
• Not as dark

• Same types of materials

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Vocabulary Words

• Atmosphere-mass of gases around a planet.
• Spacecraft-vehicles for traveling in space.
• Incredible-amazing.
• Probes-space vehicles that collect and send
  information.
• Craters-bowl-shaped holes.

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Mercury
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Venus
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Earth
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Mars
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Jupiter
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Saturn
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Uranus
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Neptune
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Pluto
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Discussion Questions

• How is this selection organized?
• How does text structure help you to understand a
  selection?
• How have space probes helped scientists?
• Which planet would you most like to visit? Why?
• Which planet would you most like to avoid? Why?

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