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Working on the Moon

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Students take a mission to the moon. In this space science instructional activity, students visit selected websites to discover information about Earth's moon and the solar system. Students may take virtual missions to the moon...
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The History of Life

For Students 7th - 8th
In this history of life worksheet, students use diagrams showing how life may have begun on Earth to complete 3 short answer questions.
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Let's Create an Ecosystem

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders discover how an ecosystem works by creating one in class.  For this Earth science lesson, 7th graders study vocabulary terms associated with ecosystem and read environment handouts.  Students create an...
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Food Chains

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students create their own food chains on Kidspiration starting from the energy of the sun and what it creates. In this food chains lesson plan, students learn about how insects eat plants and so on.
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Moon Phase Stations

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders investigate the moon. In this Earth science lesson plan, 3rd graders discuss the moon phases and how every 4 weeks the moon cycles through these phases.
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Characteristics of Energy

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore Earth science by completing energy worksheets in class. In this energy forms lesson, students identify and define a list of energy vocabulary terms and a K-W-L chart. Students view a matter video clip in class and...
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Sunspot Activity

For Students 8th - 10th
In this sunspot activity worksheet, students are given a table with 3 types of flares produced by sunspots based on their brightness. Students answer 5 questions by interpreting the data and they determine the percentages of the...
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Galileo's Battle for the Heavens

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students view a video about Galileo's discoveries. They work together to create graphs showing the current sunspot cycle. They discuss how sunspots can cause communication devices problems.
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How Solar Cells Work: Converting Sunlight to Electricity

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students examine how to convert sunlight to electricity.  In this renewable energy sources lesson plan students explain how solar cells are used and use a voltmeter to measure the energy produced by a solar panel.
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Hinode-Close Up of a Sunspot

For Students 8th - 10th
In this solar sunspot worksheet, students use two photographs from the Hinode solar observatory showing a sunspot on the solar surface. Students solve 5 problems including finding the scale of the images, determining the smallest detail...
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Solar Activity

For Students 8th - 10th
In this solar activity activity, students complete a puzzle given a word bank with matching numbers. The numbers correlate to the answers to basic math problems that use the order of operations. Students use their mathematical answers to...
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Biomes of the World

For Students 4th - 5th
In this biomes activity, students read an article on biomes and answer 10 multiple choice, short answer or true and false questions relating to biomes.
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Tropical Atlantic Aerosols

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students analyze NASA data from the Multi-angle Imaging Spectroradiometer. In this NASA data lesson, students access an assigned website to examine information from the MISR on the Terra Satellite. They determine how desert dust travels...
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Solar Powered Cars

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students build and race solar powered cars after a teacher lecture. They answer questions based on their experiences with the car they build.
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Eclipses

For Students 6th - 9th
In this eclipses worksheet, students read about solar and lunar eclipses to complete 8 short answer questions comparing the two types of eclipses.
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Name that Wind

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Pupils study wind and the direction terms related to wind. In this meteorology lesson, students learn about the wind directions by completing a wind direction activity where kids locate cones marked with the specific wind...
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Star Child Astronomy

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students gain understanding of the relationship of Earth within the Solar System. They increase knowlegde of the planets, sun, moon, meteoroids, asteroids and comets.
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Jupiter

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this Jupiter learning exercise, students research the answers to five key facts associated with Jupiter including the distance from the sun and how long it takes to rotate around the earth.
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Seasons' Journey: As the World Turns

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the earth's revolution around the sun and the changes in weather that follow this motion.
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Energy Defined

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders complete activities to study the sources of energy and forms. In this energy lesson, 4th graders discuss the origin of energy and define it. Students participate in several experiments to further study energy including a...
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Wax On, Wane Off! the Different Views of the Moon

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students create a three-dimensional model of the Earth and Moon to show the different phases of the moon as they appear on Earth. In small groups, they draw a diagram for a phase, set up the model in the drawn positions then test it with...
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Sunspot Activity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
In this space science worksheet, high schoolers find the data that is needed to help them acquire the knowledge concerning sunspots through observation and data collection.
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Making a Sundial

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students create their own sundial and explore how to read it.
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Monster Sunspots!

For Students 7th - 10th
In this sunspots worksheet, students read about the large sunspots observed for thousands of years and their indication of solar storms. Students use given images to find the scales and physical sizes of the 3 sunspots shown.

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