Learning goals - Planetary Profiles

PLANETARY PROFILES	Tick
1.      Recall that the Earth orbits the sun every year.
2.      Understand that the tilt of the Earth’s axis causes the seasons
3.      Understand that the rotation of the Earth on its axis creates night and day
4.      Describe how solar & lunar eclipses occur
5.      Understand that planets orbit a star
6.      Know that the sun is a star.
7.      Know the main differences between a star and a planet.
8.      Name the planets in our Solar system.
9.      Describe the structure, landscape, climate of at least two planets.
10.   Explain some of the problems of space travel