• 1.

  Students research the life and works of Galileo Galilei via books or the Internet. He is known for his contributions to science and physics.

• 2.

  Create posters of Galileo discoveries and tie them to his quotes.

• 3.

  This lesson plan depicts three of Galileo’s discoveries: The nature of Pendulums, the Falling Bodies experiment, and the Heliocentric Model.

• 4.

  Use Crayola® Colored Pencils and Markers to depict the discovery and match it up with a quote from Galileo.

• 5.

  Students present their posters and learning to the class.

Standards

• LA: Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.
• LA: Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
• LA: Paraphrase portions of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
• LA: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade level topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
• SCI: Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object.
• SCI: Support an argument that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed down.
• SS: Identify and describe examples in which science and technology have changed the lives of people, such as in homemaking, childcare, work, transportation, and communication.
• VA: Students will initiate making works of art and design by experimenting, imagining and identifying content.

Adaptations

• Students recreate and demonstrate one of Galileo’s discoveries to the class.
• Students research the scientific revolution in which Galileo was a part of and other inventors and scientists from that era.
• Classroom Resources include: Galileo for Kids: His Life and Ideas, 25 Activities (For Kids series) by Richard Panchyk.