This PowerPoint is one small part of the Astronomy Topics unit from www.sciencepowerpoint.com. This unit consists of a five part 3000+ slide PowerPoint roadmap, 12 page bundled homework package, modified homework, detailed answer keys, 8 pages of unit notes for students who may require assistance, follow along worksheets, and many review games. The homework and lesson notes chronologically follow the PowerPoint slideshow. The answer keys and unit notes are great for support professionals. The activities and discussion questions in the slideshow and meaningful. The PowerPoint includes built-in instructions, visuals, and follow up questions. Also included are critical class notes (color coded red), project ideas, video links, and review games. This unit also includes four PowerPoint review games (110+ slides each with Answers), 38+ video links, lab handouts, activity sheets, rubrics, materials list, templates, guides, and much more. Also included is a 190 slide first day of school PowerPoint presentation. Teaching Duration = 5+ weeks. Areas of Focus in the Astronomy Topics Unit: The Solar System and the Sun, Order of the Planets, Our Sun, Life Cycle of a Star, Size of Stars, Solar Eclipse, Lunar Eclipse, The Inner Planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Moon, Craters, Tides, Phases of the Moon, Mars and Moons, Rocketry, Asteroid Belt, NEOs, The Torino Scale, The Outer Planets and Gas Giants, Jupiter / Moons, Saturn / Moons, Uranus / Moons, Neptune / Moons, Pluto's Demotion, The Kuiper Belt, Oort Cloud, Comets / Other, Beyond the Solar System, Types of Galaxies, Blackholes, Extrasolar Planets, The Big Bang, Dark Matter, Dark Energy, The Special Theory of Relativity, Hubble Space Telescope, Constellations, Spacetime and much more. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me. Thanks again and best wishes. Sincerely, Ryan Murphy M.Ed www.sciencepowerpoint@gmail.com

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4. • RED SLIDE: These are notes that are very
important and should be recorded in your
science journal.
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5. -Nice neat notes that are legible and use indentations
when appropriate.
-Example of indent.
-Skip a line between topics
-Don’t skip pages
-Make visuals clear and well drawn.

6. • RED SLIDE: These are notes that are very
important and should be recorded in your
science journal.
• BLACK SLIDE: Pay attention, follow
directions, complete projects as described
and answer required questions neatly.
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7.  New Area of Focus: The Rest of the Solar
System.
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17. • TNO’s: Trans-Neptunian Objects

18. • TNO’s: Trans-Neptunian Objects are
members of the solar system like the planets
and asteroids, but are small and distant.

19. • TNO’s: Trans-Neptunian Objects are
members of the solar system like the planets
and asteroids, but are small and distant.
–They generally orbit outside of Neptune.

20. • Questions for Article (On Next Slide)
– Who made this decision?
– What disqualifies Pluto and qualifies a planet?

21. • Reading Link! Pluto’s Demotion
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/5282440.stm

22. • Questions for Article (On Next Slide)
– Who made this decision?

23. • Questions for Article (On Next Slide)
– Who made this decision?
– The International Astronomical Union – About
2,500 hundred Astronomers voted.

24. • Questions for Article (On Next Slide)
– What disqualifies Pluto and qualifies a planet?

25. • Questions for Article (On Next Slide)
– What disqualifies Pluto and qualifies a planet?
• The scientists agreed that for a celestial body to
qualify as a planet:
– it must be in orbit around the Sun
– it must be large enough that it takes on a nearly round
shape
– it has cleared its orbit of other objects
• Pluto was automatically disqualified because its
highly elliptical orbit overlaps with that of Neptune. It
will now join a new category of dwarf planets.

26. • If Pluto is a planet, than so are all of these!

27. • If Pluto is a planet, than so are all of these!

29. • Pluto is a Dwarf because it…
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30. • Pluto is a Dwarf because it…
– Compared to Earth it’s very small.
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35. –Orbits on a different plane than all the
others.
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36. –Orbits on a different plane than all the
others.
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37. • Made up of ice. If it were near the sun it
wouldn’t even exists.

38. • Video Link! Pluto’s Demotion
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b25dPQ9ORY

39. • Kuiper Belt (Pronounced Kyper)
– A disk-shaped region of objects outside the orbit
of Neptune.
– Much larger and massive than Asteroid Belt.
– Objects are made of mostly frozen water,
methane, and ammonia

40. • Kuiper Belt (Pronounced Kyper)
– A disk-shaped region of objects outside the orbit
of Neptune.
– Much larger and massive than Asteroid Belt.
– Objects are made of mostly frozen water,
methane, and ammonia

41. • Kuiper Belt (Pronounced Kyper)
– A disk-shaped region of objects outside the orbit
of Neptune.
– Much larger and massive than Asteroid Belt.

42. • Kuiper Belt (Pronounced Kyper)
– A disk-shaped region of objects outside the orbit
of Neptune.
– Much larger and massive than Asteroid Belt.
– Objects are made of mostly frozen water,
methane, and ammonia

43. • The scattered disc is a distant part of the
solar system beyond the Kuiper Belt

44. • The scattered disc is a distant part of the
solar system beyond the Kuiper Belt.
– The area has small icy minor planets known
as scattered disc objects (SDOs)

45. • Oort Cloud: Region of space beyond the Solar
System that theoretically contains about one
trillion inactive comets.

46. • Oort Cloud: Region of space beyond the Solar
System that theoretically contains about one
trillion inactive comets.

47. • Oort Cloud: Region of space beyond the Solar
System that theoretically contains about one
trillion inactive comets.

48. • Oort Cloud: Region of space beyond the Solar
System that theoretically contains about one
trillion inactive comets.

49. • An ice ball mixed with dust that doesn’t
orbit the sun.
.

50. • An ice ball mixed with dust that doesn’t
orbit the sun.
.

51. • An ice ball mixed with dust that doesn’t
orbit the sun.
.
The Planets

52. • An ice ball mixed with dust that doesn’t
orbit the sun.
“It’s very cold
and boring out
here.”

60. • The Oort Cloud:
– Made of inactive comets of ice and dust.
– This is the furthest reaches of out solar system.
– 50,000 AU from the sun to the edge.

61. • The Oort Cloud:
– Made of inactive comets of ice and dust.
– This is the furthest reaches of out solar system.
– 50,000 AU from the sun to the edge.

62. • The Oort Cloud:
– Made of inactive comets of ice and dust.
– This is the furthest reaches of our solar system.

63. • The Oort Cloud:
– Made of inactive comets of ice and dust.
– This is the furthest reaches of our solar system.
– 50,000 AU from the sun to the edge.

64. • The Oort Cloud:
– Made of inactive comets of ice and dust.
– This is the furthest reaches of our solar system.
– 50,000 AU from the sun to the edge.
Kuiper Belt an Oort Cloud. Learn more:
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?O
bject=KBOs

65. • Video! The Kuiper Belt and more.
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPDlXP1Zj_M

66. • You can now complete this question

68. • Activity! Draw the Kuiper Belt and Oort
Cloud. Label both.

69. • Activity! Draw the Kuiper Belt and Oort
Cloud. Label both.

70. • Activity! Draw the Kuiper Belt and Oort
Cloud. Label both.

71. • Activity! Draw the Kuiper Belt and Oort
Cloud. Label both.
Planets

72. • Activity! Draw the Kuiper Belt and Oort
Cloud. Label both.
Planets.

73. • Activity! Draw the Kuiper Belt and Oort
Cloud. Label both.
Planets.

74. • Activity! Draw the Kuiper Belt and Oort
Cloud. Label both.
Planets.

75. • Activity! Draw the Kuiper Belt and Oort
Cloud. Label both.
.

76. • Activity! Draw the Kuiper Belt and Oort
Cloud. Label both.
.

77. • Activity! Draw the Kuiper Belt and Oort
Cloud. Label both.
Planets.

78. • Activity! Draw the Kuiper Belt and Oort
Cloud. Label both.
Planets.

79. • Activity! Draw the Kuiper Belt and Oort
Cloud. Label both.
Planets.

80. • Activity! Draw the Kuiper Belt and Oort
Cloud. Label both.
Planets.

81. • Activity! Draw the Kuiper Belt and Oort
Cloud. Label both.
Planets.

82. • Activity! Draw the Kuiper Belt and Oort
Cloud. Label both.
Planets.
.

83. • Activity! Draw the Kuiper Belt and Oort
Cloud. Label both.
Planets.
.

84.  Comet: A frozen mass that travels around
the sun in a highly elliptical orbit.
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86. • The ice begins to melt as it approaches the
sun. Called a tail.
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87. • Halley’s Comet passes by Earth every 76
years.
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88. • Halley’s Comet passes by Earth every 76
years. It last past by in 1986
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89. • Halley’s Comet passes by Earth every 76
years. It last past by in 1986
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90. • Halley’s Comet passes by Earth every 76
years. It last past by in 1986
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91. • Hale-Bopp Comet. (1997) Brightest Comet
in a long time. You could see it for 18
months.

92. • Hale-Bopp Comet. (1997) Brightest Comet
in a long time. You could see it for 18
months.

93. • You can now complete this question

95. • Try and guess the picture beneath the
boxes.
– Raise your hand when you know. You only
get one guess.
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107. Outer Planetary Topics Review Game

108. • This Solar System Basics and the Sun lesson is just one
small part of my Astronomy Topics Unit. This unit
includes
• A five part 2,800 Slide PowerPoint Presentation / unit
roadmap full of activities, review questions, games, video
links, materials list, and much more.
• A 13 bundled homework package, modified version, 7
pages of unit notes, 4 PowerPoint Review Games of
100+ slides each, videos, rubrics, and much more that
all chronologically follow the unit slideshow.
• This is a fantastic unit for any Earth Science Class.
• http://sciencepowerpoint.com/Astronomy_Unit.html

110. Areas of Focus in the Astronomy Topics Unit:
The Solar System and the Sun, Order of the Planets, Our Sun, Life Cycle
of a Star, Size of Stars, Solar Eclipse, Lunar Eclipse, The Inner Planets,
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Moon, Craters, Tides, Phases of the Moon, Mars
and Moons, Rocketry, Asteroid Belt, NEO’s, The Torino Scale, The Outer
Planets and Gas Giants, Jupiter / Moons, Saturn / Moons, Uranus /
Moons, Neptune / Moons, Pluto's Demotion, The Kuiper Belt, Oort Cloud,
Comets / Other, Beyond the Solar System, Types of Galaxies, Black holes,
Extrasolar Planets, The Big Bang, Dark Matter, Dark Energy, The Special
Theory of Relativity, Hubble Space Telescope, Constellations, Age of the
Earth, Time, Earth events in a 12 hour day, Principle of Superposition,
Geologic Timescale, Extinction Events, Dinosaurs, and much more.
Full Unit found at...
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111. • This was a very brief 5 mb tour. Please visit
the links below to learn more about each of
the units in this curriculum package.
– These units take me about four years to complete
with my students in grades 5-10.
Earth Science Units Extended Tour Link and Curriculum Guide
Geology Topics Unit http://sciencepowerpoint.com/Geology_Unit.html
Astronomy Topics Unit http://sciencepowerpoint.com/Astronomy_Unit.html
Weather and Climate Unit http://sciencepowerpoint.com/Weather_Climate_Unit.html
Soil Science, Weathering, More http://sciencepowerpoint.com/Soil_and_Glaciers_Unit.html
Water Unit http://sciencepowerpoint.com/Water_Molecule_Unit.html
Rivers Unit http://sciencepowerpoint.com/River_and_Water_Quality_Unit.html
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112. Physical Science Units Extended Tour Link and Curriculum Guide
Science Skills Unit http://sciencepowerpoint.com/Science_Introduction_Lab_Safety_Metric_Methods.
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Motion and Machines Unit http://sciencepowerpoint.com/Newtons_Laws_Motion_Machines_Unit.html
Matter, Energy, Envs. Unit http://sciencepowerpoint.com/Energy_Topics_Unit.html
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Life Science Units Extended Tour Link and Curriculum Guide
Human Body / Health Topics
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Cell Biology Unit http://sciencepowerpoint.com/Cellular_Biology_Unit.html
Infectious Diseases Unit http://sciencepowerpoint.com/Infectious_Diseases_Unit.html
Taxonomy and Classification Unit http://sciencepowerpoint.com/Taxonomy_Classification_Unit.html
Evolution / Natural Selection Unit http://sciencepowerpoint.com/Evolution_Natural_Selection_Unit.html
Botany Topics Unit http://sciencepowerpoint.com/Plant_Botany_Unit.html
Ecology Feeding Levels Unit http://sciencepowerpoint.com/Ecology_Feeding_Levels_Unit.htm
Ecology Interactions Unit http://sciencepowerpoint.com/Ecology_Interactions_Unit.html
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113. • More Units Available at…
Earth Science: The Soil Science and Glaciers Unit, The Geology Topics
Unit, The Astronomy Topics Unit, The Weather and Climate Unit, and The
Rivers and Water Quality Unit, The Water Molecule Unit.
Physical Science: The Laws of Motion and Machines Unit, The Atoms
and Periodic Table Unit, The Energy and the Environment Unit, and
Science Skills Unit.
Life Science: The Diseases and Cells Unit, The DNA and Genetics Unit,
The Life Topics Unit, The Plant Unit, The Taxonomy and Classification
Unit, Ecology: Feeding Levels Unit, Ecology: Interactions Unit, Ecology:
Abiotic Factors, The Evolution and Natural Selection Unit and The Human
Body Systems and Health Topics Unit
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114. • The entire four year curriculum can be found at...
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Thank you for your interest in this curriculum.
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