Success Criteria:

1. Each person will complete their own Formative.

2. When neccessary, all members have access and can see the work on a shared screen.

3. Each discussion question should take about 3-5 minutes. Check to make sure others are ready to move on.

4. All voices are heard during the discussion.

5. Time to think is provided.

6. When a talk tip is provided, it is used as people build on each other’s ideas.

7. All recorded responses reflect a collective discussion.

Discuss and add what you already know about space to the brain image.

Predict:

Make a predictive sketch of the relative sizes and distance for each planet or star in the solar system including: Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and minor planet Pluto. Don't look anything up, just show me what you know, or predict how masive they are compared to one another and approximate distance apart (no need to be exact).

Do you think there is complex life outside our solar system (sun + planets that orbit it)? Explain why or why not.

How did the video make you feel about the size and scale (distances) of objects in the Universe?

Reflect:

After watching the video of the group of folks who built a model solar system in the desert, what was surprising or interesting to you?

Plan a model of the solar system that portrays the size and distance of each planet and the sun in our solar system. Make sure to reference the data tables in your model.

Remember that a model tries to explain something that is too big or too small to see. A model might include:

• objects

• labels

• arrows or lines

• pictures

• distance

Brainstorm first in your group. Discuss in your group what materials you could use to represent each planet, and our sun as well as how you can measure distance from sun with materials you have at your home.

Show Your Work

Reflect

At the beginning of class you picked a quality of being a scientist that you wanted to focus on today. How did you do with this? What evidence do you have for this?

Example, "I did an OK job of being patient. I found myself frustrated with the technology drawing tool. You can see this in my model because I didn't get very far with it."