This document discusses the key characteristics of Earth that support life, including its size, gravity, and atmosphere. It notes that Earth is unique in the solar system for having properties necessary to sustain living organisms. The document then asks students to identify ways to conserve Earth's environment and provides a template for students to create their own hypothetical planet by filling in data about its name, location, weather, organisms, inhabitants, and appearance.

1. Earth and Life
Science

2. Identify the planets in
the solar system in the
given illustration.
1. Mercury
2. Venus
3. Earth
4. Mars
5. Jupiter
6. Saturn
7. Uranus
8.Neptune

4. F A D S E M
E U L G O I

5. F A D S E M
E U L I O H
L I F E

6. Earth: The Living
Planet
EARTH AND LIFE SCIENCE

7. OBJECTIVES
Content
Standards
At the end of the lesson student should be able to:
1. identify the characteristics of the Earth that supports
life; and
2. expound how the characteristics of the Earth sustain
the needs of a living organism.
Learning
Competencies
(MELC)
Recognize the uniqueness of Earth, being the only
planet in the solar system with properties necessary to
support life.
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9. Temperature

12. Is liquid water so important?

17. Size of a planet
Amount of atmosphere

18. -stronger gravity
-thicker atmosphere
-greatly protected from
radiant heat
-weaker gravity
-thinner atmosphere
-poorly protected from
radiant heat

19. EARTH VENUS
SUFFICIENT SIZE
OF A PLANET
SUFFICIENT FORCE
OF GRAVITY
SUFFICIENT-SIZED ATMOSPHERE

20. (Source: http://www.
ucar.edu/communic
ations/gcip/m7sssyst
em/m7pdfc3.pdf).

28. What are the things you can do to
save our planet?

30. Creating a Planet: Fill up the data
needed in your created planet.
My Planet is called _________. It
is located in the _________. The weather is
_________. It would have _________ kinds
of organisms. The individual who live there
are called _________.
The individual look like this.
The planet looks like this.