Fourth graders research the planets and create brochures to share their information.  In this planets lesson plan, 4th graders navigate the Internet to gather information for a brochure about an imaginary trip to their planet....

Students explore space science by reviewing scientific vocabulary terms. In this planet identification lesson, students identify the nine planets in our solar system and discuss which ones could potentially harbor life at some point....

Extremely large or extremely small numbers are difficult to comprehend. To help understand the massive scale of the solar system, learners complete two activities. First, they create a model to compares the size of the bodies in the...