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This video is one part of a Earth Science teaching unit for students in grades 5-10. Each few seconds represents one slide on the actual Powerpoint Presentation. The entire unit covers Earth System History and Astronomy Topics. This unit includes an interactive and engaging Powerpoint Presentation of over a 1000+ slides with built in class notes (Red Slides), lab activities, project ideas, discussion questions, assessments (Quiz Wiz), challenge questions with answers, links to great educational websites, videos, and much more. Text 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 and color coding of text helps increase student focus, and allows teacher to control pace of the lesson. Also included is a 13 page assessment / bundled homework that chronologically follows the slideshow, as well as a 10 page modified assessment, and 12 pages of class notes with images are also included for students who could benefit from them. Answers keys to the bundled homework and activities are provided 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. Two Powerpoint review games are included. Answers to the Powerpoint review 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.

Areas of Focus Part I - IV: -Earth System History and Time, Principle of Superposition, Timeline of Earth's History and Events, 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, Oort Cloud, Comets / Other,Beyond the Solar System, Blackholes, Exoplanets, The Big Bang, Dark Matter, Dark Energy, The Special Theory of Relativity, Hubble Space Telescope, Constellations.

Please visit http://sciencepowerpoint.com/index.html to learn more about this unit and the other 18 units in Life, Earth, and Physical Science for students in grades 5-10. Please view part II (Inner Planetary Topics) on a neighboring video. Thank you for watching this video. Less