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The Best of the Solar System (Grades 4-7)

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students explore planetary research and become familiar with the planets and their characteristics. They compare and contrasts planets and moons.
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The Best of the Solar System (Grades 6-8)

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are introduced to planetary research and become familiar with the planets and their features. They view images of the planets, and fill in an information chart which is imbedded in this plan.
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Earth, Moon, Mars Balloons

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students demonstrate size and orbits of Earth, Moon, and Mars. In this space science lesson plan, students will use balloons to show how the size and distance between the planets and satellite compare.
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The Phases of the Moon

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students view an applet to study the phases of the Moon in relation to the orientation of the sun, moon, and Earth.
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Studying Shadows

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students measure shadows and explore the altitude of the sun.  In this sun instructional activity students will graph the length of shadows and solar altitude against time. 
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Constellation Projections

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students draw constellations. In this astronomy lesson, students create constellations from star groupings projected on a chalk board. Students connect the "stars" to create a pattern on the board. Student can create new groupings of...
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The Planets Moon

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Pupils explore the theories of the creation of the universe and examine the properties of celestial bodies. They analyze the relationship between the sun, Earth and other planets. They discover the infinite potential of the science of...
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Make it Yourself Constellation Finder

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students identify constellations with and without a constellation finder.  In this creating constellations lesson plan students construct a constellation finder to help them to identify the constellations. 
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Project SETI.

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders study how to search for life in outer space and make use of the 40-foot radio telescope at Greenbank, West Virginia. Request that the telescope be pointed at a particular location and time and receive data back from it...
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The Planets Terra Firma

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the theories of the creation of the universe and examine the properties of celestial bodies. They analyze the relationship between the sun, Earth and the other planets.
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Constellations

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore constellations. They read trade books about constellations and write notes including their locations, origins, and names. They research and report on one constellation in the Northern Hemisphere and share their report...
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Powers of 10

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students explore universe, and examine how big it really is and how scientists measure the distances or sizes of things by estimating sizes of different objects and reading and writing numbers in scientific notations.
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Geometry in the Constellations: The ER-2

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars discuss reasons to record the location of stars. They view a picture of the night sky, and discuss constellations. Students complete a worksheet of the various shapes they see in the constellations.
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The Solar System

For Students 9th - 12th
In this solar system learning exercise, students complete a word puzzle by determining the terms associated with the 10 statements about the planets.
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Types of Scientists

For Students 6th - 8th
In this science worksheet, students match each type of scientist listed in the left-had column to its correct description found in the right-hand column. There are 34 different scientists to match on the sheet.
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Our Universe: Always Moving, Always Changing

For Teachers 3rd
Students explore the main concepts of astronomy through the eleven lessons of this unit. The past, present, and future methods of studying the science are examined in this unit.
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The Guest Investigator Puzzle

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students conduct a brief astrophysics lab matching the EUVE spectra of various kinds of "mystery" stars with the spectra of known stars taken at Extreme Ultraviolet and optical wavelengths to determine their type.
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Color Recognition

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students envision how space observatories make use of monochromatic filters to collect data on the color of objects in space. They see the actual colors of objects when they are in monochromatic light.
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Coordinates

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use cartesian coordinates (x,y,z) in 3-dimensional space. [Optional: appreciate there exist two ways of defining the z axis, and which of them is used.] They become familiar with the tools and terms used by surveyors.
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Collecting Electromagnetic Radiation

For Teachers Higher Ed
Pupils using different experiments and activities explore electromagnetic radiation and the effect on the Earth.
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Projecting Spectra

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students use two methods to show and study the colors in the visible spectrum.
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Water in the Air

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students simulate how clouds block radition and how water in the air condense around containers.
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Heat Currents

For Teachers Higher Ed
Pupils using a slide made out of aluminum foil and pin holes observe visible light.
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Simple Spectroscope

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students make a spectroscope out of simple materials and are expected to view as many different light sources as possible to see the whole spectrum.

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