Tim addresses the camera. Different sized objects scattered around the Kuiper belt are highlighted in blue and labeled Scattered disc.. TIM: Yeah, you'd definitely melt on Venus. An animation shows Moby sitting next to Tim and looking at him while Tim is talking to him. TIM: Yup, Pluto is also a Kuiper belt object. (Compare/contrast; Make inferences), Timecode 4:00: Why might the outer planets have many more moons orbiting them than the inner planets? In the animation, Uranus moves out of view and is replaced by a drawing of Neptune. TIM: No, you couldn't go there you'd probably either melt or freeze! "},"flag":{"type":"flag","instructions":"Create a flag that represents the solar system. Stop at the following times in the movie and ask questions or prompt a discussion to keep students focused and to assess their understanding before moving on: Timecode 1:12: Why did Earth become an inner planet? One is barren and the other shows some rocks. TIM: Dear Tim and Moby, can you tell me all about the solar system? An animation shows a man, Tim, and a robot, Moby, at a campsite. This topic is not available for students in Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade and 12th Grade.Contact your administrator for guidance on teaching this topic. It is depicted with several large concentric rings. The animation shows a large clump of ice floating in space. TIM: Over millions of years, gravity drew a lot of this stuff together, into clumps. The animation zooms in on Jupiter. The rings are a thin layer of millions of chunks of ice and rock. TIM: They launched in the early 1970s and are also thought to be nearing the heliopause. All rights reserved. TIM: Over the course of millions of years, gravity pulled the elements of this dust cloud closer and closer together until clumps began to form. Pluto has an odd orbit that sometimes brings it closer to the sun than Neptune. An animation shows the sun and the planets of the solar system, then zooms out to show a ring around the planets composed of small objects. The history of the solar system is long but fascinating\u2014and it probably started with a bang! What do you think youll learn about the solar system in this movie? Lightning from the yellow gas strikes the red, rocky ground. Check your students' knowledge and unleash their imaginations with Creative Coding projects. Text reads: The Mysteries of Life with Tim and Moby. It is depicted as covered by clouds. 19992023 BrainPOP. While scanning the night sky with a pair of binoculars, Tim is interrupted by Moby, giving him a letter asking if there is a 'Planet X'. The first moon landing, as far as I'm concerned, is one of the greatestmomentsin humanhistory. TIM: The four inner planets are much smaller than the four outer ones. Pluto's orbit intersects with Neptune's. The orbits are ellipses. Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos. If you An interactive tutorial for finding and using Challenge 1999-2023 BrainPOP. Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade and 12th Grade. TIM: They say its one of the reddest bodies in the solar system maybe even redder than Mars! "},"game":{"type":"game","instructions":"Code a sorting game to show what you know about the solar system. ","alignment_guid":"98C726CA-2F4E-11E9-81FE-F2032EB223BB","requires_flash":"","small_screen_compatible":"","url":"\/science\/space\/solarsystem\/creativecoding\/","icon":"\/assets\/images\/creativecoding_svg_icon.svg","coding_types":{"museum":{"type":"museum","instructions":"Code a digital museum to show what you know about the solar system. An image shows Tims hand holding a typed letter. Standing next to him is Moby. Planet X was the name given for a theoretical planet some astronomers thought existed beyond the orbit of Neptune. Watch it again, this time using the discussion prompts. TIM: Oh, the things I mentioned are all governed by the suns gravity, which stretches half way to the next star system! The surface of Venus can get close to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit. TIM: The moon is the sixth planet in the sky, next to the sun between Mars and the Earth. There are four rocky, inner planetsMercury, Venus, Earth, and Marsand four gas giants farther outJupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Most of them are concentrated in the Asteroid Belt, between Mars and Jupiter. For all eleven planets, each ellipse lies entirely within the surrounding ellipse. TIM: Yeah, I guess Earth's my favorite, too. (Apply new knowledge;Identify cause/effect). Contents 1 Summary 2 Appearances 3 Transcript 4 Quiz 5 FYI Comic 6 Gallery Summary While scanning the night sky with a pair of binoculars, Tim is interrupted by Moby, giving him a letter asking if there is a 'Planet X'. ","joke_text_2":"Give me a ring sometime! Learn more and understand better with BrainPOP's animated movies, games, playful assessments, and activities covering Science, Math, History, English, and more! Standing next to him is Moby. Tim and Moby discuss the pros and cons. Standard and Scientific Notation/Transcript. When it gets close to the sun, the dust and ice form long, wispy tails that you can sometimes see from Earth. TIM: Around Jupiter, there are almost 70 moons. TIM: Scientists think that comets come from far regions of the solar system, called the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud. The first is labeled Orcus, the second is labeled Quaoar, and the third, the smallest one, is labeled Varuna.. "},"meme":{"type":"meme","instructions":"Create a meme about the solar system. When they get close to the sun, some of their ice forms long, wispy tails that you can sometimes see from Earth! Already have an individual account with Creative Coding? "},"story":{"type":"story","instructions":"Code a conversation to show what you know about the solar system. TIM: Mercury is the closest planet to the sun. It was named after the Roman god of the sea, probably because its so blue. An animation shows the planet with the questions mark disappearing. (Predict), What is something new you hope to learn about the solar system? An image is shown of a gray planet, labeled Eris, against a night sky. An animation shows Earth from outer space, with Moby's arms extending around the planet in a giant hug. TIM: The sun's not all that big compared to other stars. As the sides are mentioned, two inserts appear. It then zooms out to show a big spherical object composed of light colored particles. TIM: The farthest that humans have ever gone is the moon, but several spacecraft have been to the outer regions of the solar system. Please enable JavaScript on your browser. An animation shows Earth rotating, with the moon orbiting around it. TIM: First of all, anything that orbits the sun farther than the planet Neptune is called a trans- Neptunian object. TIM: The Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud are areas in the far regions of the solar system where small bodies like comets are thought to originate. Contact your administrator for guidance on teaching this topic. An animation shows four large moons next to Jupiter. It makes an intermittent beeping sound that fades as the spacecraft moves farther and farther away. Another, similar line labeled heliopause is added to the right of the line labeled termination shock, so that the arrow labeled solar wind points right to it. TIM: Saturn is another gas giant, about 100 times more massive than Earth. An animation shows the red mountain towering over the smaller Mount Everest. TIM: The four inner planets are rocky, relatively warm, and have craters. Asteroids are pieces of rock centimeters to hundreds of kilometers wide. *BrainPOPs Discussion Questions and Prompts align to CCSS Speaking and Listening Standards. Try searching your Timeline, or return to the homepage. Two inserts appear. . Immense gravitational pressure built up at the core of this gigantic clump. TIM: Comets are clumps of ice and dust that orbit the sun. ","What is in the inner Solar System? It was named after the Roman god of the sea maybe because it's so blue! It's actually just a medium-sized star, but for us it's the most important star there is. 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TIM: Others became big balls of mostly gas called gas giants, like Jupiter. TIM: There are more than 1,000 trans-Neptunian objects in the solar system and counting! It is depicted with a thin white horizontal ring. The ring is labeled Kuiper belt.. The animation shows Moby take a cloth and clean the lens on Tim's telescope. All rights reserved. 1999-2023 BrainPOP. This topic is not available for students in Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade and 12th Grade. TIM: The dense, carbon dioxide atmosphere on Venus traps so much heat, the surface can get up to over 450 degrees Celsius. It started out around four and a half billion years agoBack then, our solar system was just a cloud of gas and dust, probably left over from the explosion of a star. An animation shows the blue-green planet with its tilted rings. The arrow labeled gravity is removed and another, yellow horizontal arrow pointing from the sun extending to the middle of the scattered disc and labeled solar wind is added. Two images are displayed next to each other against a night sky. TIM: The total amount of planets in our solar system are satellites of the sun that means they travel around it in an orbit. The eight planets in our solar system are satellites of the sun. In the animation, Moby looks up and then looks down. There's quite a variety of stuff in the solar system, right? Birds fly in the sky. TIM: But scientists are pretty sure that both of the Voyager probes have passed the termination shock, and are closing in on the heliopause. Astronomers believe that more than 4.5 billion years ago, an exploding star created a huge cloud of gas and dust. TIM: Well, the solar system is our home in the galaxy. The image of the sun, the planets, and the Kuiper belt is shown. Moby first looks up, then blinks and looks back down. It forms a distant ring around the solar system. That's caused by the high iron content in Martian rocks. All of the parts of the diagram are labeled and a horizontal red arrow labeled gravity goes through the image and points from the Oort cloud to the sun. The spiraling pattern transfixes Tim and he falls asleep as Moby looks at the night skies through the binoculars. Tim is holding a star chart. TIM: By the way, Pluto isnt the only dwarf planet. TIM: Yeah, you'd definitely melt on Venus. TIM: There's no water on Mercury and there's very little atmosphere. Another image shows a lake surrounded by hills of trees. He then looks at the stars through his binoculars and Moby covers the binoculars with a piece of paper. The animation zooms in to Venus' surface. "},"story":{"type":"story","instructions":"Code a conversation to show what you know about the solar system. Like Uranus, it's sometimes called an ice giant because it's so cold. All rights reserved. An animation shows light blue and white objects that resemble crumbled sheets of paper moving across a night sky. The Oort Cloud is even further from the sun. The animation shows a close-up of the sun. An image of the Oort cloud is shown again. As each condition is mentioned, four inserts show different parts of Earth: an ocean; buildings amongst trees; people; and animals. That means lots of liquid water, which all life depends on. Others include Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, and an object named Eris, which is slightly larger than Pluto. "},"story":{"type":"story","instructions":"Code a conversation to show what you know about the solar system. In the animation, Moby falls down onto the grass with a big "Clunk!" Text reads: The Mysteries of Life with Tim and Moby. The animation shows five planets traveling along the circles. TIM: Are there are there others like you? "},"newscast":{"type":"newscast","instructions":"Create a newscast about the solar system. Two inserts appear showing the axis of the planet perpendicular to the plane containing the ring. TIM: Other large Kuiper bodies include Orcus, Quaoar, and Varuna. (, : Why did Earth become an inner planet? TIM: The four outer planets are really far from the sun, so they're much colder. A curved, orange, vertical line is added along the boundary between the Kuiper belt and the scattered disc and is labeled termination shock.. In the animation, an insert compares Jupiter with some of the other planets. Our solar system is also home to asteroids, comets, dwarf planets such as Pluto, and the distant objects of the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud. The animation shows a close-up of the central clump which explodes and catches fire. Asteroids are pieces of rock centimeters to hundreds of kilometers wide that wander the solar system. TIM: Then there's the last one Pluto, a cold, rocky body even smaller than our own moon. TIM: Well well, how do you know? But wait, there's more! It started out four and a half billion years ago, as a big cloud of gas and dust out in space, mostly hydrogen and helium. An animation shows a large grey cloud in a starry sky. When were you there? It makes an intermittent beeping sound that fades as the spacecraft moves farther and farther away. BrainPOP Jr. Games. An animation shows Pluto rotating in space. TIM: Well, the sun is at the center of our solar system. As it approaches, its tail grows longer. An animation shows Pluto surrounded by four small moons and one larger one. The fourth from the sun is Earth, where we live. Stars and other small colored objects are shown. Another animation shows the orbits of the each planet, as well as Pluto's. TIM: Dear Tim and Moby, Is there really such a thing as Planet X? TIM: But, you know, there probably wont be any more planets found. TIM: That means it traps the sun's heat. Tim addresses Moby while turning his head to look at him. TIM: The Kuiper belt is a ring of icy debris orbiting the sun beyond Neptune. TIM: Scientists say scattered disc objects are well, Kuiper belt rejects! TIM: The Oort cloud is a whole light-year away from the sun it takes an entire year for a ray of sunshine to reach it! TIM: Bubut their hypothesis was based on faulty calculations of Neptunes mass! An animation shows the two X-marks going beyond the termination shock and closer to the heliopause. For best experience, access this project full size. The animation shows Tim and Moby standing with a starry sky in the background. ","alignment_guid":"95D6F986-2F4E-11E9-AECB-D0A0D9F723EE","requires_flash":"","small_screen_compatible":"","url":"\/science\/space\/solarsystem\/challenge\/","icon":"\/assets\/images\/challenge_svg_icon.svg"},{"feature_id":"294","type":"concept_map","name":"Make-a-Map","alignments_description":"A concept mapping tool. The diagram expands to show a third planet and its orbit to the right of the previously shown two planets. It's way bigger than our entire planet, and it's been raging for centuries. We can't find the project you're looking for. The animation zooms in on Mercury. TIM: But Pluto wasnt massive enough to fit the estimates of Planet Xs probable size. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! Atoms began fusing together in a nuclear reaction that continues to this day. Explain how each is connected to the Solar System topic. The animation shows the earlier view with the four inner planets. Gravity drew this stuff together into clumps, eventually forming the sun and the surrounding planets. The biggest was in the center, and everything else began to spin around it. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade and 12th Grade. This animated Science resource page with lesson plans and teaching tips, for Kindergarten to 3rd grade students teaches about the Sun, moons, and planets that make up our Solar System. Theres a stormy Great Dark Spot on Neptune thats kind of like the Great Red Spot on Jupiter. Text reads: Oort cloud. Butterflies Camouflage Classifying animals Fish Food chain Frogs Hibernation Insects Living and nonliving things Mammals Migration Forests Parts of a plant Plant . TIM: It spins really slowly, just one and a half times for every trip around the sun. An animation shows Mars, with two gray moons orbiting the planet. TIM: Comets are totally different than asteroids. (, What is something new you hope to learn about the solar system? An animation shows the gas and clumps of matter swirling around a bright sphere. Some astronomers think a huge collision in its early days might have done that. It became the sun, and its energy pushed away any nearby gas. A diagram shows the terminal shock as an orange circle with the sun and the planets of the solar system, including Earth, in the center of it. TIM: Dwarf planets are kind of like regular planets, but generally smaller. Our solar system is also home to asteroids, comets, dwarf planets such as Pluto, and the distant objects of the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud. The text trans-Neptunian objects is still written above the arrow. "},"game":{"type":"game","instructions":"Code a sorting game to show what you know about the solar system. TIM: The cloud also began to spin, with the biggest clump in the center. An animation shows Mercury rotating. The upper one is labeled "Kuiper Belt" and the lower one is labeled "Oort Cloud". Text at the top right reads: dwarf planet. But how does it make our calculators work? It was considered the main planet until 2006 when it got demoted to a dwarf planet. Tim: Eris is actually the largest dwarf planet in the solar system its just a bit bigger than Pluto! 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An animation shows the sun, then pulls back to show the eight planets orbiting around it. TIM: I know, it's quite a variety of stuff in the solar system, right? TIM: The smaller clumps became the planets that we know about today. Contact your administrator for guidance on teaching this topic. But wait, there's more! Although it's pretty dry right now, scientists think Mars was once much more like Earth, possibly with oceans and rivers flowing on its surface. Tim goes on to explain about space beyond Neptune, as well as some space probes and planets. Solar System Discussion Prompts and Pause Points, What do you think youll learn about the solar system in this movie? "}},"relative_path":"\/science\/space\/solarsystem\/creativecoding\/","small_screen_compatible":"","requires_flash":"","description":{"sound":"","text":""}}. TIM: Today, people just use the term Planet X to mean some undiscovered major planet of the solar system. The sphere gets bigger and brighter until it explodes, pushing gas away and leaving the eight planets orbiting the sun. Then Neptunes orbit is added and an arrow pointing away from Neptune and the sun is added. An image shows a big, brown planet labeled Pluto, a smaller, purple moon labeled. Outer Solar System is a Science video of BrainPOP aired on May 14, 2002. The sun is on the left of the screen, planets and Kuiper belt to the right of it, followed by the scattered disc and the Oort cloud to the far right of the screen. One shows a close-up of the concentric rings. In the animation, the view of the asteroids moves out of view and is replaced by a drawing of Pluto. An image shows chunks of material orbiting in the Kuiper Belt. You probably know it by its amazing set of rings! TIM: It also has the tallest mountain in the solar system, Olympus Mons. An animation shows the four outer planets, then zooms in to show Jupiter encircled by a narrow ring. They formed the gas giants, like Jupiter. An image shows a night sky and stars through a pair of binoculars. Standard and Scientific Notation/Transcript, Adding and Subtracting Fractions/Transcript, Adding and Subtracting Integers/Transcript, American Revolution/Second Remake Transcript, Antonyms, Synonyms, and Homonyms/Transcript, Branches of Government/Transcript (New Version), Branches of Government/Transcript (Old Version), Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka/Transcript, Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka/Transcript (Update), Building the Thirteen Colonies/Transcript, Causes of the American Revolution/Transcript, Civil Rights/Transcript (Updated Version). An animation shows the dry, rocky surface of Mars transition to a lake. An animation shows a man, Tim, and a robot, Moby, at a campsite. This topic is not available for students in Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade and 12th Grade. It's tilted so that it looks like its lying on its side! It's so tilted that it looks like its lying on its side! TIM: You you know what its like out there? It is depicted with blotches of white and gray regions. Explain how each is connected to the Solar System topic. TIM: Thats where the solar wind gets stopped in its tracks by particles from the rest of outer space! (Make connections), How does its distance from the Sun affect each planet in the Solar System? TIM: The outer planets were once rocky, too, but their gravity captured the gas pushed away by the sun. An inset shows a closer look at the ice and rocks that make up the rings. The screen is split in half vertically and displays Eris on the left and Pluto on the right. Filed as: Discussion Prompts, Solar System BrainPOP recommends reading the movie description that appears on the Solar System Topic Page to your class. The other shows white, gray, and black areas on the blue surface. TIM: Most of them are concentrated in the Asteroid Belt, between Mars and Jupiter. The next planet to the left of it is labeled Neptune.. An animation first shows the sun and several other planets surrounded by a ring of gray specks, and then zooms out to show the entire solar system, represented by light purple dots arranged in a spherical pattern against a night sky. TIM: It also has a permanent storm on its surface called the Great Red Spot, which is way bigger than the entire Earth! (Identify cause/effect), Timecode 2:28: What can you infer about the temperature on Mars compared to Earth? An animation shows Jupiter rotating in space and the sun in the background. An earth-friendly renewable source of energy that comes to us straight from the sun! From, Sam. A cross-section of the planet shows that its core is much larger than Earth. TIM: Sure. TIM: Hey Moby, I think I see aliens. TIM: Right, the solar system isnt just planets and the sunthere are lots of smaller bodies floating out there, too. The camera zooms in on Tim and Moby. "},"game":{"type":"game","instructions":"Code a sorting game to show what you know about the solar system. TIM: Yeah, theyve been traveling in space for about 35 years now! Another animation shows floating objects coming together and forming the planet Jupiter. Its rocky core alone is at least 10 times bigger than Earth. TIM: Neptune is the farthest planet in the solar system. An image of a planet labeled Pluto is shown against a night sky. But wait, there's more! TIM: On its surface, there's a permanent storm, called the Great Red Spot. An animation shows the pale yellow planet encircled by large rings. Far out from the sun is Earth, where we live. Please enable JavaScript on your browser. Our solar system is also home to asteroids, comets, dwarf planets such as Pluto, and the distant objects of the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud. The animation focuses on the swirling red storm on Jupiter's surface. TIM: Like the stuff in the Kuiper belt, objects in the Oort cloud are thought to have originated way back when the solar system was just starting up. TIM: It also has at least three moons: Charon, Hydra, and Nix! Moby blinks, looks at Tim, and then looks at the night sky. An image is divided vertically into three equal parts and shows three round bodies of different colors decreasing in size from left to right. ","alignment_guid":"966F38D6-2F4E-11E9-9BB5-F28EFCE54722","url":"\/make-a-map\/?topic=\/science\/space\/solarsystem\/","requires_flash":"","small_screen_compatible":""},{"feature_id":"294","type":"make_a_movie","name":"Make-a-Movie","alignments_description":"A movie-making tool to produce BrainPOP-style movies. (, How does its distance from the Sun affect each planet in the Solar System? At the end of the episode, Moby says he knows what it's like out there and after questioned by Tim, hypnotizes him. A close-up image of the planet with a question mark in the middle of it is shown against a night sky. In the animation, the view changes to show Charon, Hydra, and Nix in orbit above Pluto. The ellipse representing Plutos orbit is long and narrow and can be seen to intersect the ellipse representing Neptune's orbit. (, Look at the four related movies at the bottom of the page. TIM: For example, the termination shock is a boundary area where the particles of the solar wind slow way down. TIM: The Oort cloud is thought to be made of billions of small objects, mostly comets. An image of a dark red planet is shown against a night sky and is labeled Sedna.. ","What is the Sun? An animation shows the deep blue planet surrounded by rings. 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An image of an astronaut walking on the moon is displayed on the screen, and then an image of a spacecraft against a night sky is added to the right of it. Mars has two moons and the tallest mountain in the solar system called Olympus Mons. An animation first shows the sun, the planets, the Kuiper belt, and the scattered disc objects. TIM: Mars is called the "red planet" because of its reddish surface. TIM: Its been really hard to keep track of these guys, since the signals they emit are so weak and so far away now! It likely had oceans and rivers, and its atmosphere contained more heat-trapping gases. 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Another animation shows a view of a large rock moving in a starry sky. in: BrainPOP Transcripts Outer Solar System/Transcript < Outer Solar System View source Transcript An image shows a night sky and stars through a pair of binoculars. It looks kind of like our moon, and it has one very hot side and one very cold side. Try your hand at computer programming with Creative Coding! An animation shows the sun and then zooms out to show the sun in the center with other planets around it. The other shows a frigid landscape. In the animation, Mercury moves off and is replaced by a view of Venus. All items (989) # A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other 3 3D Printing/Transcript 6 60s Folk/Transcript A A Wrinkle in Time/Transcript AAPI Heritage Month/Transcript Abraham Lincoln/Transcript Absolute Value/Transcript Acceleration/Transcript They're clumps of ice and dust that each have a unique orbit around the sun. 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TIM: Neptune is the last gas giant and it has more than a dozen moons. Each is depicted with rings of different sizes. Watch it again, this time using the discussion prompts. No one knows exactly why that is, but some scientists think the planet was knocked around during its early days by some other passing body. Venus is sometimes called Earths sister planet, because of the similar size. Another view shows clumps spinning around a large central clump. TIM: Pluto has an odd elliptical orbit that sometimes brings it closer to the sun than Neptune. The one on the left shows the Voyager 1 spacecraft and the one on the right shows the Voyager 2 spacecraft. The spherical object is labeled Oort cloud.. TIM: Ooh, I think I see Neptune! In the animation, the view changes to the planets circling the sun. Two inserts appear. In the animation, Saturn moves out of view and is replaced by a drawing of Uranus. 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