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Learning about the Great Red Spot of Jupiter is very useful to understand how the gas giant planets are so very different than rocky planets such as Earth or Mars. The great red spot is like a hurricane, but bigger, faster and not slowed by solid ground beneath it. By integrating a reading comprehension passage on Jupiter’s great red spot, you can provide students at different readiness levels with texts of varying complexity, ensuring that both more and less advanced learners engage meaningfully with the material.

This tiered approach - offering two sets of guiding reading and questions tailored to each text - builds foundational skills in reading, critical thinking, and scientific inquiry, so you can use the right one for you. Through such structured resources, students develop a deeper appreciation for the processes that create and preserve this incredible natural phenomenon, and gain the scientific literacy necessary to make informed decisions about space exploration and gas movements.

This 2 article set of Jupiter’s spot articles provides the perfect grab and go, print and provide resource that can help your students learn all about Jupiter’s spot. For digital, you can provide a Google doc copy for ease of submission or a Microsoft word version as well. In this Jupiter’s spot article with questions to check comprehension and inspire scientific thinking.

THIS JUPITER’S SPOT ARTICLE CAN BE USED SO MANY WAYS:

• Useful for substitute (sub) teaching
• To extend students
• To increase scientific literacy in your class
• A weekly reading task
• Great as a lesson filler when class goes too fast
• To inspire students on a particular topic
• Give a selection of these articles for students to choose from

WHAT’S INCLUDED IN THIS JUPITER’S SPOT ARTICLE:

• 2 - 3 page Word doc image - textboxes teacher version with answers
• 2 - 2 page Word doc image - textboxes student version with room to fill in answers (text boxes)
• 2 - 3 page PDF teacher version with answers
• 2 - 2 page PDF student version without answers (but space left to do so)
• 2 - 3 page Google doc image - textboxes teacher version with answers
• 2 - 2 page Google doc image - textboxes student version with room to fill answers (text boxes)

Please note: That the Doc versions are images with editable text boxes overlayed on top and this is the most effective way to keep the article sleek and well-designed and also that students cannot change things significantly.

WANT MORE AMAZING ARTICLES LIKE THIS JUPITER’S SPOT ARTICLE? MANY ARE AVAILABLE!

I am very proud of this series of science articles and they are rich with information and wonder at the majesty of science. Each science article includes a fun fact(s) to add to the knowledge gained from this article. Formatted in an easy to read and digest manner, each paragraph is numbered to help with referencing and each question answer has a paragraph reference number to point to the specific information (where applicable).