Solar System video

TASK ABOUT HUGO CHAVEZ LIFE

TASK: ABOUT HUGO CHAVEZ LIFE

ü  Aim: At the end of the task students will be able to give information about political issues reporting about Hugo Chavez life, taking as tool of information the internet.

ü  Population: pre-intermediate to intermediate learners, teenagers specifically.

Task: students will write a paragraph (ten lines) in which they will express their thoughts about political issues related the way Hugo Chavez governed his country while he was alive, things he did and things he did not.

Stage one: read basic information about Hugo Chavez life, where he was born, his parents, his studies, etc. (his biography)

Stage two: go to this web page http://learningenglish.voanews.com/ look for the article Remembering Hugo Chavez, listen, read and take some notes about the information here presented.

Stage three: write on your own words a perception about the life and death of the Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, mention some chronological events.

Stage four: the writing must be uploaded to the group’s blog.

Criteria for assessing students’ performance

Each criteria will be graded from one to five, the sum of all criteria will be divided into eight (8) and the result will be the global grade.

CRITERIA	GRADE FROM 1 TO 5
Ideas were expressed in a clear and organized way. It was easy to figure out what the text was about.
Ideas were expressed in a pretty clear manner, but the organization could have been better.
The letter is 10 or more sentences.
Student makes no errors in capitalization and punctuation.
Student makes 3-4 errors in capitalization and punctuation.
The text contains at least 5 accurate facts about the topic.
The text contains 1-2 accurate facts about the topic.
The text contains no accurate facts about the topic.
TOTAL GRADE

Solar System Activity

Solar System

ü  Match the description with the correct planet.

Names:____________________________ Date:_______________

1.    Saturn		a)The densest planet and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the solar system
2.    Pluto		b)…Similar in composition to Neptune, and both are of different chemical composition than the larger gas giants…
3.    Jupiter		c)… The second largest planet in the solar system and it is also a gas giant…
4.    Earth		d)... It is known as a dwarf planet… it is composed primarily of rock and ice and is relatively small…
5.    Venus		e)… The second largest planet in the solar system… it is a gas giant… it is ninety-five times more massive than Earth.
6.    Uranus		f)… The largest planet in the solar system. It is a gas giant… it is two and a half times the mass of all the other planets in the solar system combined
7.    Saturn		g)… Is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. After the moon, it is the brightest natural object…

Solar System Information

SOLAR SYSTEM PLANETS

Mercury is the innermost planet in the Solar System. It is also the smallest, and its orbit is the most eccentric (that is, the least perfectly circular) of the eight planets.

Venus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days.[11] The planet is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. After the Moon, it is the brightest natural object in the night sky.

Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets. It is sometimes referred to as the world, the Blue Planet.

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second smallest planet in the Solar System. Named after the Roman god of war, it is often described as the "Red Planet".

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet in the Solar System.[13] It is a gas giant with mass one-thousandth that of the Sun but is two and a half times the mass of all the other planets in the Solar System combined. Jupiter is classified as a gas giant along with Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter.  Saturn is a gas giant with an average radius about nine times that of Earth. Saturn is just over 95 times more massive than Earth.

Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It has the third-largest planetary radius and fourth-largest planetary mass in the Solar System.  Uranus is similar in composition to Neptune, and both are of different chemical composition than the larger gas giants Jupiter and Saturn.

Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun in the Solar System. It is the fourth-largest planet by diameter and the third-largest by mass. Neptune is 17 times the mass of Earth and is somewhat more massive than its near-twin Uranus, which is 15 times the mass of Earth but not as dense.

 Pluto is the second-most-massive known dwarf planet in the Solar System (after Eris) and the tenth-most-massive body observed directly orbiting the Sun.  Pluto is composed primarily of rock and ice and is relatively small, approximately one-sixth the mass of the Earth's Moon and one-third its volume.

SOLAR SYSTEM ORDER

This is the order of the planets from the nearest to the sun to the furthest.