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Teaching Duration = 5 Weeks (Middle Level) Grades 6-8 from http://sciencepowerpoint.com/index.html


A 2830+ slide Powerpoint presentation becomes the roadmap for an amazing science experience.  If you decide that you want to take this course.  Please email me at www.sciencepowerpoint@gmail.com.  I will then send you an entire unit of study for you to download.   The unit comes with a bundled homework / assessment that you should print out at the beginning.  As you follow the 6 part Powerpoint presentation, you should conduct activities at home in a science journal (directions are included in the Powerpoint), record red slide notes in your journal, take review game challenges, watch videos when cued in the slideshow,  and move through the Powerpoint slideshow methodically.  Answer Keys, Unit Notes, Videos, and much more are included.  Use the Answer Key at the end to assess your level of understanding.  You can view videos of the unit by linking to the addresses below or visit http://http://sciencepowerpoint.com/index.html to get a better idea of this unit.  This is a great unit for the visual learner who is interested in something outside of the textbook / workbook experience.


Part I: The Sun and Solar System
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhM-GgCBzEY

Part II: Inner Planetary Topics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpUpzjeZo_s

Part III: Rocketry and the Main Asteroid Belt Topics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtzv5mI6Nao

Part IV: Outer Planetary Topics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HA8P12Z7PE

Sun and Solar System Review Game I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssdydt8kjjo

Inner Planetary Topics Unit Review Game II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxiZbcTGzTE

Outer Planetary Topics Unit Review Game III http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gJUnRkzGq4

Earth System History Part IV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxYmf2fkXaE

Earth System History Review Game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWtcShfk9Lw

Text on the unit Powerpoint is in large print (32 font) and is placed at the top of each slide so it can seen and read from all angles of a classroom.  A shade technique, as well as color coding text helps to increase student focus and allows student to control the pace of the lesson. Also included is a 13 page assessment / bundled homework that chronologically follows the slideshow for nightly homework and the end of the unit assessment, as well as a 10 page modified assessment. 7 pages of class notes with images are also included for students who require assistance, as well as answer keys to both assessments / homework for support professionals, teachers, and home school parents. 39 video shorts (FLV files) are provided and a slide within the slideshow cues teacher / parent when the videos are most relevant to play. Video shorts usually range from 2-7 minutes and are included in organized folders. Four Powerpoint Jeopardy games are included (125-170 slides each). Answers to the Powerpoint Jeopardy games are also provided in Powerpoint form so students can self-assess. Lastly, several class games such as guess the hidden picture beneath the boxes, and the find the hidden owl somewhere within the slideshow are provided. Difficulty rating 7/10. Duration = 5+ Weeks.

Areas of Focus:  Astronomy, Solar System, and the Sun, Order of the Planets, Our Sun, Solar Eclipse, Lunar Eclipse, The Inner Planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Moon, Craters, Tides, Phases of the Moon, Mars and Moons, Rocketry, Asteroid Belt, NEO's, The Outer Planets and Gas Giants, Jupiter and Moons, Saturn and Moons, Uranus and Moons, Neptune and Moon, The Kuiper Belt, Comets / Other,Beyond the Solar System, Blackholes, Exoplanets, The Big Bang, Dark Energy, Dark Matter, The Special Theory of Relativity, Hubble Space Telescope, Constellations, Earth System History and Time, Principle of Superposition, Timeline of Earth's History and Events,

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Unless otherwise stated, all text materials within sciencepowerpoint.com including the
Powerpoint presentations, bundled homework, class notes, review games, and overall
design are copyright ©  2010 by Ryan P. Murphy, and are protected by international
copyright law.  No parts of the units found on www.sciencepowerpoint.com may be
reproduced, copied, modified, republished, uploaded, or distributed
in any form for commercial purposes or for distribution to the general public. 


Thanks for your time and if you have any questions please email me at www.sciencepwoerpoint@gmail.com 

Please visit the other 18 units that I have to offer from the website http://sciencepowerpoint.com/index.html. as well as the disclaimer and other important information.

Thank you for your time and interest in this unit.

Sincerely,
Ryan Murphy M.Ed
www.sciencepowerpoint@gmail.com

 

 

 
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