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Lesson plan 53: If the Earth had rings like Saturn

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For this activity, you will need the above clip and a slide show/lesson plan which you will find on this pdf file:

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  • Level: Intermediate +
  • Learner type: 11-14 years; 15-16 years; Adults
  • Time: 60 - 90 minutes
  • Main activity: Reading, Speaking, Thinking
  • Topic: Saturn, Science, Astronomy
  • Materials: Slide show; Video clips
  • Language: 2nd conditional; Hypothetical ‘would’

Thanks to Mike Harrison for sending me the great clip below which could be used in combination with the lesson plan:

Posted by admin on Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 9:23 pm.

6 Responses to “Lesson plan 53: If the Earth had rings like Saturn”

HI Jamie! I’m afraid I can’t open the pdf document. Is there any problem with it? Thanks in advance.

Left by Sabridv on December 4th, 2009

Hi Jamie,
yet another great lesson plan that´s going up on the school moodle! It fits in nicely with something that we´ll be covering at the end of the second term with 15-16 year old students. I could give you feedback then, but it looks good on paper - well, pdf, which opened fine.
Thanks again,
Guido

Left by Guido on December 4th, 2009

Dear Jamie,

What a lovely idea to study the planets with such a beautiful clip and an excellent worksheet. Students—and of course their teachers—will be grateful to you all over the world. Do keep up all this good work.

Best wishes,
Marianne

Left by Marianne Raynaud on December 7th, 2009

Hi there! Upon visiting your website and taking a look at your lesson plan, I would like to express my appreciation for this sort of work. It really paved the way for my would-be worksheets. Hence, thank you and keep up the good work.

All the best.
Fatih Mehmet YIGIT
Teaching Staff
SFL,Uludag University
Bursa- TURKEY

Left by Fatih Mehmet YIGIT on December 16th, 2009

Great lesson…used it with what equals US 7-9th graders…worked out fine…I added a map work lesson to prep them for the places in the video…blank map, city name list…mark the cities on the map. Followed the rest of the plan pretty straight..Thanks a lot.
Andy
In Thailand

Left by Andy on December 18th, 2009

Thank you all very much for the kind comments and feedback.
Andy - like the idea about the map. It crossed my mind to start by asking students to put the cities into order of closest to furthest from the equator. I think it is a really nice aspect of the clip: The Solar System combined with geography.
Thanks again everyone
Jamie

Left by admin on December 18th, 2009

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