Solar System Formation Cause-And-Effect Flow Chart-Earth Science Lessons Preview

June 18, 2014 Off By Bill WIlkinson

The purpose of this graphic organizer is to get your students to analyze and interact with information that, by itself in a textbook, is cold, seemingly endless, and close to impossible to understand.

Besides presenting how our solar system might have formed, this cause-and-effect flow chart also reinforces the whole concept of science, which is the study of how/why things happen. We (the earth and our surrounding solar system) are here, so there must be a reason. Instead of assuming the reasons for this are un-knowable, what this lesson does is suggest one way the solar system formation might have happened. And, would you believe, even though these steps are highly over-simplified, they still makes sense!?!?