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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Lost in Space a Solar System Study

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
During this technology based lesson plan, learners navigate the Internet to learn interesting information about the solar system. They use the information to complete a worksheet and to create a puzzle or challenge for their classmates.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Inner and Outer Planets of the Solar System

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this science lesson students will work collaboratively to learn and introduce the eight planets, sizes, characteristics, and their order. They will use size comparisons, research a planet, design a poster and create a PowerPoint...
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Other

Simple Science: Planetary Gallery

For Teachers 5th - 8th
The innovative resource examines images of the Sun, Moon, Pluto, and all eight planets in the Solar System. Learners calculate the diameter of each object and rank the objects in order of size. The activity has an interactive online...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Our Big Blue Marble

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are introduced to the fabulous planet on which they live. Even though we spend our entire lives on Earth, we still do not always understand how it fits into the rest of the solar system. Students learn about the Earth's position...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Not So Lost in Space

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn how engineers navigate satellites in orbit around the Earth and on their way to other planets in the solar system. In accompanying activities, they explore how ground-based tracking and onboard measurements are performed....
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Other

Boston Children's Museum: Moon Leap

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Discover why the effects of gravity are different in different parts of our solar system.
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Other

Lunar and Planetary Institute: Explore! Jupiter's Family Secrets

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A variety of hands-on activities, investigations, and explorations designed to engage learners in discovering planet Jupiter.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Beyond the Milky Way

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
When we look at the night sky, we see stars and the nearby planets of our own solar system. Many of those stars are actually distant galaxies and glowing clouds of dust and gases called nebulae. The universe is an immense space with...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Outer Planets

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the outermost planets of our solar system: Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. They also learn about characteristics of Pluto and its interactions with Neptune. Students learn a little about the history of space travel as well...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Origins: Earth Is Born

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Collect micrometeorites from space -- remnants of the time when the solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago. Create a sky dust collector, sort particularate matter according to attributes and identify micrometeorites by their...
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Path to Mars

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners use websites and other resource materials to compare and contrast features of Mars and Earth.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Kinesthetic Astronomy: Earth's Rotation

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This kinesthetic activity will demonstrate concepts like rotation and orbit, clarify movement and direction, and help learners understand why earthlings see different things in the sky.
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University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas Mc Donald Observatory: Sunspots

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Experiment involves identifying sunspots, temporary phenomena on the Sun's photosphere that appear as spots darker than the surrounding areas.
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Models of the Earth and Moon

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson plan from the Illinois Institute of Technology demonstrates the causes of; day and night, seasons, and phases of the moon.With a few items, you help the elementary student discover why these phenomena occur.

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