Solar System – Common Core Lessons and Activities

Common Core

by Carole Marsh

You are purchasing the eBook PDF format of this book. How to Use the Solar System - Common Core Lessons and Activities
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!

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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.
To download the graphic organizers labeled "GO" in the Table of Contents click HERE.
Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.

The Solar System - Common Core Lessons and Activities
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
Solar Reading Informational Text
Ancient Main Idea G
Inner Applying Concepts G
Outer Applying Concepts G
Inner and Outer Compare & Contrast GO1
Putting It All Interpreting Visual Data
Night Sky Observation Classifying Information G
Labeling the Solar Graphic Organizer G
Heliocentric & Reading Informational Text
Data Analysis
Rotation and Cause & Effect
Distance from the Data Analysis
Reading Informational Text
Earth’s Compare & Contrast GO4
To the Moon!: Reading Literature
What Is Pluto?: Reading Informational Text
Tools for Space Vocabulary G
Common Core State Standards Correlations

Includes Graphic Organizer
Graphic Organizer is also available 8 1/2" x 11" online download HERE.

(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)

24 pages, Unknown Binding

First published November 15, 2013

About the author

Carole Marsh is a children's author and the founder of Gallopade International, a children’s book publishing company headquartered in Peachtree City, GA. Marsh writes mystery fiction in addition to works of non-fiction for children. Initially she self-published under the imprint Gallopade Publishing Group, which she founded in 1979; today Gallopade International is a major small publisher based in Peachtree City, Georgia.

In 2007 Marsh received the Georgia Author of the Year award for her contributions to children's literature and to the state of Georgia over the past twenty-seven years.