• Students will identify each of the nine planets. 
• Students will work with partners to find information about planets.

• 2-one hour sessions

• Earth, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus, Pluto, Mars, Mercury, Saturn, Neptune

Materials:

• Internet
• Scavenger Hunt handout
• pencils

• Revisit K-W-L and write new information students have learned.
• Students will be given a Scavenger Hunt handout.
• Students will work in pairs using the Internet with various sites book marked by teacher to complete the Scavenger Hunt.

• Ask different pairs of students to refer to their Scavenger Hunts and tell what they recorded.  Fill in a class Scavenger Hunt as students answer.  For the answers to the Scavenger Hunt click here:  Answers
• Display the Scavenger Hunt in the classroom for future reference.

• In their computer-generated Science Journals students will write five more facts they have learned about the planets.

• Students will plan and create their own planet
• Brainstorm planet's name, create a planet map, a flag, and geographical facts
• Visit NASA- Planets  and click on the fact sheet for each planet for background data
• Complete Planet Planning Sheet
• Share with class

• Students use desktop publishing to write a riddle about a planet of their choice; they can add clip art or images scanned from the Internet. Visit AZ Kid's Net and click on riddles; read other students' riddles then post your own.

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