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• Record prior knowledge of the solar system.
• Contrast planet’s period of rotation and period of revolution.
• Contrast prograde and retrograde rotation.

Assignment:  What do you know?

• Compare Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.
• Determine the characteristics that make Earth suitable for life.

Assignment:  Notebook planet pages.

• Compare Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.
• Determine the characteristics that make Earth suitable for life.

Assignment:  Notebook planet pages.  

• Compare and contrast gas giants and terrestrial planets.
• Compare Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.

Assignment:  Notebook planet pages.