Objectives:

• Students will develop an ABC Book using Kid Pix Productivity software to create a multimedia slide show applying all they have learned about our solar system.

Time Required:

• 5-one hour sessions

• Kid Pix CD-Rom
• Computer-generated Science Journal

• Revisit K-W-L and complete with all information students have learned about our solar system.
• Students will work in groups.  Each group will have 4 to 5 letters assigned to them.  Groups will develop an ABC Class Book.  Groups will then use the letters that were assigned to them to create a Kid Pix slide show.

• The ABC Book and slide show will be assessed using an ABC Book/Slide Show Checklist.

Extension Activity: 

Solar System Trading Cards

• Visit Amazing Space 
• At this site students look at pictures of space objects, answer questions and collect 12 trading cards 
• After students have collected all 12 cards, create own trading cards using desktop publishing
• Insert tables with one row and one column, increase as needed
• Insert pictures of planetary objects
• Create another set of tables, type three questions on each. Add answer.
• Print out and copy back to back
• Laminate trading cards
• Give students time to trade cards

• Students will look through the newspaper or in online newspapers, such as USA Today and find a current event about any of the planets or anything about space.  Students will present their article in class.

• Students will go on a field trip to a local Planetarium.
• Students can go on a virtual field trip through the Solar System by clicking here Virtual Tour.