PSELL Big Idea 5 Slide 6 Explore/Explain/Evaluate: Student book p. 167. Ask the question, What do you know about the sun? Have students discuss. Then click on the DE hyperlink Sun. Watch the video to check what else you can learn about the sun. Discussion starters: TAG Tell a fact you learned about the Stars. Ask a question about something you don’t understand about stars? Give another idea that you learned in our study of the Sun and the stars. Explore and Explain: PSELL Big Idea 5 Student book Slide 7 p. 167. Ask how the stars are different. Students write their ideas in their notebooks. Then they share out. Ask how does our Star the Sun’s size compare to other stars? It’s an average size star. Say let’s watch a video to learn more about stars. Click on the Discovery Ed link: Sun and Stars in the slide. Ask What else did you learn about stars? Students share. Slide 8 Explain/Evaluate: Students use the slide chart from PSELL student book Star chart on p. 167 to compare diameter and distance from the sun data. Discuss. Then answer questions. Students reading Close Up or Far Away section underneath the Star chart in the PSELL book p. 168 will help them in answering the second question. Key: Alpha Centauri A and Sirius A are larger than the Sun. They look smaller because they are farther away than the Sun. The Sun looks bigger to us because our Sun is closer to us than any other star.
Slide 6 Explore/Explain/Evaluate: PSELL Big Idea 5 Student book p. 167. Ask the question, What do you know about the sun? Have students discuss. Then click on the DE hyperlink Sun. Watch the video to check what else you can learn about the sun. Discussion starters: TAG Tell a fact you learned about the Stars. Ask a question about something you don’t understand about stars? Give another idea that you learned in our study of the Sun and the stars. Slide 7 Explore and Explain: PSELL Big Idea 5 Student book p. 167. Ask how the stars are different. Students write their ideas in their notebooks. Then they share out. Ask how does our Star the Sun’s size compare to other stars? It’s an average size star. Say let’s watch a video to learn more about stars. Click on the Discovery Ed link: Sun and Stars in the slide. Ask What else did you learn about stars? Students share. Slide 8 Explain/Evaluate: Students use the slide chart from PSELL student book Star chart on p. 167 to compare diameter and distance from the sun data. Discuss. Then answer questions. Students reading Close Up or Far Away section underneath the Star chart in the PSELL book p. 168 will help them in answering the second question. Key: Alpha Centauri A and Sirius A are larger than the Sun. They look smaller because they are farther away than the Sun. The Sun looks bigger to us because our Sun is closer to us than any other star.
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