CKLA U7L4

The Outer Planets

Lesson 4

unit 7 - Astronomy

today you will . .

.

• read informational text about the outer planets in the solar

system and make connections between main ideas in
paragraphs. [RI.3.2]

• compare and contrast texts about the inner and outer

planets in the solar system. [RI.3.9; W.3.2, W.3.2c]

• add suffixes –ful and –less to change the meaning of

words. [L.3.4b]

Unit-level Essential

Question:

What celestial objects make up

our solar system?

Lessons 1 – 5 Guiding Question:

What are the features of the eight

planets in our solar system?

gas giant -one of the
large outer planets,
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus,
and Neptune, that are
composed mainly of
hydrogen gas

vocabulary

hydrogen - the most common gas in the
universe, which is lighter than air and
easily catches fire

⋆ Chapter 4 – The Outer Planets

Partner Read

Reading Time

Open Ended

Why are the outer planets called gas giants?

Dropdown

The rings around Saturn are made of ​

Select answer

and ​

Select answer

.

Open Ended

Why isn't Pluto considered a planet any longer?

Jupiter

gas giant, largest

planet, mostly

made of hydrogen

gas

gases blowing

around; giant red

spot; storm;

hurricane

63 moons, very

large; some larger
than Earth’s moon

Activity

Page 4.1

Writing

Chapter

3

Chapter

4

Compare

Contrast

alike

same?

How are things

or the

different

How are things

?

too

similar

both

also

unlike

but

instead of

on the other hand

suffixes

⋆ Added to the END of word - Changes the meaning of word

-ful

(full of)

-less

(lacking / without)

careful

helpful

cheerful

careless

fearless

helpless

jellyfish
jewel
germy
bridging
digest
dodge

REVIEW:

spelling words with the /j/ sound

exchange
eject
budget
lodging
gymnasium

fringe
average
nudging
fudge
ridge
giraffe

Challenge Word: answer Challenge Word: great
Challenge Word: grate Content Word: Jupiter