Intern Name: Alexis Rosas

Topic/Title of Lesson: The Solar System

Grade: Special Education-Various Grades
Length of Lesson: 1 hr. 30 mins
Date Taught: 11/24/2015

LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE

Overview
Standards of
Learning

In this lesson The students will continue learning simple facts about the
sun and the planets orbiting the sun by completing a variety of worksheets
and an interactive activity.
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Essential Questions

Objectives

Key Vocabulary or
Concepts

Materials

Can I differentiate the planets?

Can I explain gravitational pull
Can I explain orbit
Can I recite the order of the planets according to the sun?

Students will be able to differentiate the planets revolving around the sun
and say the order in which they appear. Students will also be able to explain
words such as gravitational pull and orbit.
The students have been introduced to this vocabulary before this lesson. We
will be practicing and reviewing the following vocabulary:
Sun
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Gravitational pull
Orbit

Promethean board
Pencil

Introduction/Hook

Worksheets that are being provided

Colored pencils

Students will complete a worksheet reviewing the position of the planets

according to the sun.

Instructional
Activities

Accommodations

Review Worksheet: Students will complete a worksheet reviewing the

order of the planets.
Fill-in-the-blank Song Worksheet: Teacher will introduce The Solar
System Song using YouTube and students will fill in the blanks
according to the lyrics.
Planet Drawing and Description Worksheet: Student will choose any
planet and draw and explain that planet in bullet point or sentence
form.
Final Review: Teacher will ask students to volunteer to present
different facts about the different planets and sun to observe
comprehension.
Solar System Sing-a-long: As a closure activity, teacher will again
introduce the same YouTube video and have students sing along to the
lyrics.

Because this is a special education class many accommodations were made

for the entire class. Including the time frame in which the students had to
complete each task and also the speed at which the lesson and activities were
presented and/or taught. However, no individual accommodation was made
for any student.

Closure Activity

Students participated in a Solar System Sing-a-long using their filled in lyric

sheet and YouTube video shown on the Promethean board.

Assessments

No official assessment has been given for this unit yet. However, I included a
final review in my lesson by having students voluntarily share facts about the
planets and sun to the rest of the class.

Resources

Mr. Anderson
YouTube