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Solar System
Araceli Lopez
EDTE 226
• Could there be life
outside of our solar
system?
What keeps the planets moving
around the Sun?
• Did you know that
there are more stars in
our Universe than
grains of sand on all
the beaches of the
Earth?
• What would you think
if I told you that every
star is a Sun?
What is a Dwarf planet?
• identify the effects of gravity.
• design a model to represent the gravitational
attraction between the Sun and the planet.
• explain what life may be like without gravity.
• demonstrate how the solar system travels in
predictable paths.
Do all objects regardless of mass
fall at the same rate?
• Gravity and inertia keep everything moving
in our Solar System.
• The solar system includes the sun, 8 planets,
dwarf planets and their moons, asteroids
and comets.
• The sun, a star, is the central and the largest
object in the solar system.
Gravity
• The student will
represent the sun, the
ball will represent the
planet and the string
will represent the
gravity of the Sun
holding the planet in
orbit. Student will
form a hypothesis.
Equity & Fairness
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