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Solar System: Common Core Lessons & Activities Carole Marsh

The Solar System Common Core Lessons and Activities Book allows you to immediately meet new Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, as well as Literacy and Writing in History/Social Studies. It is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing, inference, text-dependent, and more into your daily instruction.

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!

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.
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 G
Inner Planets: Applying Concepts G
Outer Planets: Applying Concepts G
Inner and Outer Planets: Compare & Contrast GO1
Putting It All Together: Interpreting Visual Data
Night Sky Observation Log: Classifying Information G
Labeling the Solar System: Graphic Organizer G
Heliocentric & 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 GO4
To the Moon!: Reading Literature
What Is Pluto?: Reading Informational Text
Tools for Space Exploration: Vocabulary G
Common Core State Standards Correlations

G: Includes Graphic Organizer
GO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8 1/2 x 11 online.

(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online).