7+Space+Science

**7th Grade: Space Science **
Key Idea 1: The Earth and celestial phenomena can be described by principles of relative motion and perspective.** ||~  ||
 * = **Month** || **March-April** ||~  ||
 * = **Duration** || **4 Weeks** ||~  ||
 * = **Content** || **Space Science: Basic Organization, Gravity & Inertia, Sizes of Earth, Moon and Sun, and Earth, Moon and Sun Relationships (Tides, Eclipses, Moon Phases, Seasons, Day & Night)** ||~  ||
 * = **Key Ideas** || **Standard 4: The Physical Setting
 * = **Standards** || * //**Performance Indicator 1.1: Explain daily, monthly and seasonal changes on Earth.**//
 * **1.1a: Earth's Sun is an average-sized star. The Sun is more than a million times greater in volume than Earth.**
 * **1.1b: Other stars are like the Sun but are so far away that they look like points of light. Distances between stars are vast compared to distances within our solar system.**
 * **1.1c: The Sun and the planets that revolve around it are the major bodies in the solar system. Other members include comets, moons, and asteroids. Earth's orbit is nearly circular.**
 * **1.1d: Gravity is the force that keeps planets in orbit around the Sun and the Moon in orbit around the Earth.**
 * **1.1e: Most objects in the solar system have a regular and predictable motion. These motions explain such phenomena as a day, a year, phases of the moon, eclipses, tides, meteor showers, and comets.**
 * **1.1f: The latitude/longitude coordinate system and our system of time are based on celestial observations.**
 * **1.1g: Moons are seen by reflected light. Our Moon orbits Earth, while Earth orbits the Sun. The Moon's phases as observed from Earth are the result of seeing different portions of the lighted area of the Moon's surface. The phases repeat in a cyclic pattern in about one month.**
 * **1.1h: The apparent motions of the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars across the sky can be explained by Earth's rotation and revolution. Earth's rotation causes the length of one day to be approximately 24 hours. This rotation also causes the Sun and Moon to appear to rise along the eastern horizon and to set along the western horizon. Earth's revolution around the Sun defines the length of the year as 365 1/4 days.**
 * **1.1i: The tilt of Earth's axis of rotation and the revolution of Earth around the Sun cause seasons on Earth. The length of daylight varies depending on latitude and season.**
 * **1.1j: The shape of Earth, the other planets, and stars is nearly spherical.** ||  ||
 * = **Relevant Vocabulary** || **gravity, inertia, star, Earth, Moon, Sun, planets, asteroids, orbit, spherical, ellipse, rotation, revolution, phases, eclipses, tides** ||  ||
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