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- 5th - 6th
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Students create a PowerPoint presentation that includes facts about the solar system using information found by researching both a science textbook and the World Wide Web. They create models of the solar system to display in the classroom. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 4th
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Students probe an interdisciplinary unit on our solar system. Distances between planets, their characteristics, and applications to student's personal lives are analyzed in this experience. The unit contains seven lessons. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students investigate the nine planets and our solar system. They create drawings, construct a sun camera, record observations and data in a Space Journal, build a model of the planets, and participate in a simulation of the Earth's orbit around the sun. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students research origin of solar system, discuss theories they have found, and create paper mache solar system models. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 4th
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Students study the solar system and our galaxy, then write a science fiction story based on what they discover. They utilize worksheets and access websites imbedded in this plan to gain ideas for their stories. Full Review »
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- 1st - 2nd
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Students discover the planets and their location in the solar system. They complete a KWL chart on Saturn and discuss. They complete the lesson with a writing activity. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students explore the internet to answer specific questions about the solar system. They use worksheets to record information about planets. Students increase awareness of the solar system through exploration of websites. Full Review »
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- 1st - 2nd
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Students participate in four activities that will get them to know each other and the celestial bodies of the solar system. Students take the name of a celestial body. Students stand up one at a time, say their celestial body name and something that they like, listing the students before them and what they liked. The teacher calls out a celestial body and all those with that nickname stand. Students make nametags with their celestial bodies. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students work with a simulation of the solar system using a program downloaded from a web site. They maneuver through the site using teacher led instruction. Finally, they write a fictional story based on their investigations. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 2nd
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Students brainstorm what they know about solar system, listen to story about planets and solar system, identify planet Saturn and explore its place in solar system as part of larger system of Sun and its orbiting planets, and complete solar system worksheet. Full Review »
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