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Get kids thinking. Our solar system is BIG! The sizes of the planets vary greatly as do the distances between planets and their distance from the Sun. Start by asking about distances kids have traveled. How many miles is it from home to. o London, England, . r to La Paz, Boliv. Let's get started!
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There are a total of nine planets in our system. The inner-most planet is called Mercury. This is followed by Venus and then our Earth. Beyond Earth is an orange-hued planet called Mars. In the outer part of the system are four giant planets called Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The outermost planet is a small world named Pluto.
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Questions to guide explorations and experiments • What is the solar system? • What is a planet? What planets are in the solar system? • Why do the Earth and other planets revolve around (orbit) the Sun? • What else revolves around the Sun? • How big is the solar system? How big are all the planets? Books and activities
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A space puzzles book for children interested in space. This activity book contains interesting facts about space flight along with activities to match. The book includes a maths puzzle, unscramble national parks, find words, match parts of the space station, and spot the difference.
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Modeling the Planets in Our Solar System
1. Students learn early on the names of the planets (and maybe even a fun mnemonic device to help remember their order). But understanding the sizes of the planets and their distances from one another really helps bring understanding of our solar system into shape. The Make a Model of the Solar System lesson guides students in building a scale model of the solar system that represents the size of each planet as well as their distances from one another. Questions: Why are the planets spherical...
Earth's Rotation and Orbit
1. With the Kinesthetic Astronomy: Earth's Rotation lesson, students use kinesthetic techniques to better understand how the Earth moves, what the Earth's rotation means, and how the Earth's rotation on its axis differs from the Earth's orbit. In the activity, students use their bodies and movements to help them understand concepts (like which direction the Earth rotates and when sunset and sunrise occur) and locations (like where the equator is). Questions: Why do people in different locatio...
Gravity in Our Solar System
1. How does a spacecraft (or a planet) stay in orbit? Gravity is a key factor, but it isn't the only one! In the The Great Gravity Escape lesson, students explore the role of gravity and velocity in a spacecraft's orbit. In the hands-on activity, students spin water balloons attached to a length of string to investigate how the gravitational forces between two objects and the velocity of a traveling object balance to form an orbit. Questions: What happens if the velocity increases too much? W...
The following word bank contains words that may be covered when teaching about the solar system using the lessons and activities in this resource. 1. Asteroid 2. Asteroid belt 3. Astronomical unit (AU) 4. Axis 5. Comet 6. Conjunction 7. Crater 8. Earth 9. Elliptical 10. Escape velocity 11. Dwarf planet 12. Galaxy 13. Gravitational force 14. Gravity...
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Make it clear with diagrams, scaled examples and/or videos (freely available online) that 'zoom out' from Earth, that the second nearest star to Earth is 10 000 times further away from the Sun than Neptune, the most distant planet.
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Introduction. Did you know that the Voyager 2 spacecraft took 12 years to travel from Earth to Neptune, the furthest planet in the solar system? This sounds like a really long time! Maybe not that long if you consider what distance the spacecraft had to travel to get from Earth to Neptune.
