必修三：Unit-4-Astronomy-the-science-of-the-stars导学案及答案.docVIP

PAGE PAGE 1 [高效预习探究案]一 Warming up Pre-reading 本节课学习知识早知道： 对于要学的知识做到心中有底，这样才能更好的安排自己的学习步骤和学习时间，愿知识清单能够更好的帮助你进行自主学习！ 我们将要学习的学习内容： 1. To encourage students to think and talk about astronomy. 2. Learn some new words and phrases. 能力目标： To develop students’ ability of creativity and imagination. To learn to talk about astronomy in English. 语言目标： 掌握重点词汇 astronomy, astronomer, solar system, religion Tasks: Step 1: Lead-in and warming up Get the students to talk about astronomy, The students can talk freely as they like. 1. Are you interested in astronomy? Do you know something about it? Do you know about any famous astronomers in the word? was the first to suggest that gravity is a force. developed a new idea of gravity and the theory of relativity. is most famous for his work on: black holes. Do you know something about solar system? Solar system is made up of and the objects that orbit it. These includes and their , as well as asteroids (小行星), comets（慧星）, and meteors（流星）. 2. How many planets circle around the sun? a. What are they? (according to the order of the distance from the sun) b. There used to be nine planets in the solar system. One of the them can no longer be considered a planet. What’s the name of the planet? Why did scientists remove it? 3. Is there life on these planets? Step 2: Think it over 1. How old is the universe? 2. (1)How did the universe begin? Different religion and culture has different ideas. What do you know? The following notes may be helpful. a. The story of the Hopi people: The Four Creations. b. From China: The story of Pan Gu c. The Jewish / Christian / Muslim story (2) The universe is made up of stars, planets and other matter scattered throughout space. 3 How old is the earth? 4. What made it possible for life to develop on the earth? 5. Whi