Lesson Plan: The Formation of the Solar System Science • Third Year of Preparatory School
This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how the solar system formed from a large cloud of gas and dust.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- recall that in the accretion model of planet formation, the solar system was originally a large cloud of gas and dust,
- recall that in the accretion model of planet formation, the cloud of gas and dust contracts due to gravity and forms a rotating disk,
- recall that the Sun forms in the center of the disk,
- recall that planets form from the outer disk,
- recall that there are other theories of planetary formation.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- the present-day structure of the solar system,
- what stars, planets, moons, and asteroids are,
- the present-day structure of the galaxy,
- the force of gravity,
- the age of the universe.
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- the details of models other than the accretion model of planet formation,
- planet ejection,
- binary systems,
- accretion disks around other stellar objects,
- globular clusters,
- star-forming regions,
- the formation of the galaxy.
