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Our Solar System

3rd Grade Science & ELA lesson

Welcome to our lesson on the
SOLAR SYSTEM!

You're going to experience:
technology enhanced research; 
cooperative and individual activities;
and a project-based final assessment.  

We're going to explore various web resouces and do several activities to learn more about Sol and it's planets. At the end of the lesson, we'll take a field trip to Eastern Michigan University's Planetarium for a presentation made just for us!
To start our space voyage, please click on the link below! 

Watch the Movie 

Solo Space Exploration

This is an activity for you to do on your own.

Please click on the link below to watch the video "Planets | Science Trek".  Under the video there is a link to the "Discussion Questions" (it looks like the picture to the left of this text box).  Please open this link and answer the questions in your Writer's Notebook. 

Planets | Science Trek

How was our Solar system created? How is structured?

This is a cooperative learning activity. Please check in at our GoogleClassroom to see your group assignments.


Once you have your groups together, please use the link below to access the Solar System Scavenger Hunt and complete the tasks for that WebQuest.  You will be creating a Presentation as a group for your Final Assessment.  Check out the Universe and Solar System presentation on the link below for lots of great info! 


Google Classroom 
Solar System Scavenger Hunt
Universe and Solar System