Download “My Very Excellent Mother Just Sent Us Nine Pickles”

Information Processing Role Play #1
Miss Sally Sue takes her second grade class to the library. The class has been studying
the solar system, and Miss Sally Sue wants to use the library time to focus on the planets of the
solar system. Need 10 students (Sun and 9 planets) along with Miss Sally Sue.
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Group the inner and outer planets (chunking).
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Demonstrate the motion of the solar system using students.
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Use cues to signal when you are ready to begin.
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Use sentence to remember the order of the planets:
“My Very Excellent Mother Just Sent Us Nine Pickles”
Movement in terms of Earth revolution:
Mercury – 4 complete revolutions (50 steps = 1 revolution); Venus – 80 steps; Earth – 50 steps;
Mars – 25 steps; Jupiter – 9 steps; Saturn – 1.5 steps; Uranus – 0.5 steps; Neptune – 0.25 steps;
Pluto – less than 0.25 steps
©2008, Jennifer L. Bell
compiled from various sources