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Below are three planned lessons that can be taught to a year 5 class on the topic of the Solar System. Each lesson is a week topic and contains the material that can be work in the classroom according to your resources. If you want to change the activity or the order that had planned for us, because you think students are not getting into the activities, choose another activity or video that according to your classroom, they can show more interest and get more involve in the topic.

Each week look for a session to go to the library. They need time to research, organize and prepare the oral presentation.
 * Remember:** 15 minutes before the class finishes, let them organize their groups, to do part of the task. In addition, you need to be always available to resolve their questions and support their learning.

**// LESSON 1 //** This is the first lesson, and it is also the introductory lesson about the solar system. We will be looking and learning about the solar system in a brief manner. The students will have an idea about what the solar system is and how it works. In this lesson, we will be showing a video which briefly talks about the solar system, and all the different things that are in the solar system. The video goes for around 10 minutes. When the video is finish, you will need to discuss with the class about what they learnt, and what they found interesting. After this, you will then hand out a work sheet that consists of questions about the video, and the children will need to answer what they know and what they learnt from the video. This is a great exercise that will prepare them for the following lessons. media type="youtube" key="fmxi3HvK2Js" width="425" height="350"

//** LESSON 2 **// As the first lesson will deal with the introduction of the solar system, in the second lesson the plan is to be more informative on the specific planets. This lesson will consist of going through the planets, their position from the sun, what they are made of, and some of the specific characteristics of the planet. One way of making this much easier is to use an interactive whiteboard game such as the link below. The game has tabs for each planet, with a description, image, and main characteristics. You can also look at the postioning of the planets around the sun, looking from different angles, were you can stop, pause and play. Not only can you use it as learning tool, but also as a fun activity for the children to use in making their own planet! It it called 'World Builder' where they can choose the size, spin, tilt, rings and moons. This looks at areas of physics, chemistry, biology, orbit and then launch the planet!

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//** LESSON 3 **// This is the week session regarding The Solar System and the topics are: asteroids, comets and meteorites. You can show a video from youtube that explain each of this concepts (this video doesn't take more than one minute). Then, you will give them extra information regarding asteroids, comets and meteorites; try to find characteristics for each one and you can compare in class the differences between each of those. Have a look this PDF Document downloaded from the internet, it contains different kind of information that children will be interesting to know. For example, how big a meteor can be or how are comets, meteors and asteroids organized in the space.

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You can find a list with different activities regarding the topic. You need to turn on the Interactive Board, split children in groups and let them to explore the games. [] [|http://econtent.thelearningfederation.edu.au/ec/viewing/R10705/index.html#]

= The Solar System using a Social Networking Site = Social networking sites can be really useful in so many ways. Facebook is an example of a social networking site that is useful for many things, and can even be useful for the topic of The Solar System. On facebook there is a page called 'Our Solar System'. On this page, the solar system is discussed by many people around the world. You can even post questions on the page about things you are unsure about. This page could be really helpful for the teacher, as he/she can use this page to help teach about the solar system to their students. If the teacher has any questions, he/she can post questions on this page.

To find the facebook page 'Our Solar System', all you need to do is type "Our Solar System facebook page' in on google and it is the first link that shows up. Or you can follow the link and it will take you straight to the page. []

Here is what the facebook page 'Our Solar System' looks like.