solar system lesson plans

Best of the Solar System - Lesson Plan __ "Introduce students to planetary research and familiarize them with the planets and their features. Key questions, procedure, materials needed. - From berkeley.edu - http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/SegWayEd/lessons/BOSS/lessonplan2.htm

Bringing the Solar System to Life __ "The Solar System is a very abstract concept for primary age children. This activity was designed to show children
the ideas of "revolution" and "rotation". - From Columbia Education Center - http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/sci/cecsci/cecsci067.html

Exploring Planets in the Classroom: hands-on science activities __ "More than 25 hands-on science activities are provided in classroom-ready pages for both teachers and students for exploring Earth, the planets, geology, and space sciences." - From spacegrant.hawaii.edu - http://www.spacegrant.hawaii.edu/class_acts/

Lesson Plans: The Solar System (Elementary, Science) __ Actually one lesson plan. "The students will visually list ten objects in our solar system, along with one characteristic of the object,on a piece of paper with 100% accuracy." - From teachers.net - http://teachers.net/lessonplans/posts/2068.html

Multidisciplinary Activities on the Solar System __ "Each of the activities below can be performed using either CGI or JavaScript versions. You should select which one is best for you depending on the capabilities of your browser software." - From nasa.gov - http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level1/activity.html

Planets or Not, Here We Come __ "During this unit you will be researching a specific planet with your team members. Each team member will be assigned a different job." Goals, procedure and materials. - From edtech.sandi.net - http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/king/planets/

Solar System Activities, Lessons, and Other Resources __ Collection of lesson plans and other Solar system study resources for all grade levels. - From Southeast Missouri State University - http://www2.semo.edu/mast/mlc/solarsystem.htm

Solar System Adventure __ "Students learn about the solar system and our galaxy from World Wide Web sites and write a science fiction story based on what they discover." - From eduplace.com - http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/gen_act/advent/solar.html

Solar System: Famous Comets __ "Learn more about some famous comets including Halley's, Hale-Bopp, Shoemaker-Levy 9, and Hyakutake. Includes photographs and animations." An index of lesson plans and resources. - From emints.org - http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00000844.shtml

Solar System Learning Activities __ Collection of lesson plans as part of a Solar System learning unit. - From lessonplanspage.com - http://www.lessonplanspage.com/more/205la.html

Solar system lesson plans for elementary school teachers in grades K-5 __ A collection of Solar System lesson plans. Goals, procedure and materials. - From proteacher.com - http://www.proteacher.com/110066.shtml

Solar System Lessons and Activites __ Over 40 lesson plans about planets and Solar System. - From lessonplancentral.com - http://lessonplancentral.com/lessons/Space/Solar_System/index.htm

Solar System Scale Model Meta Page __ "The idea: Making scale models of the solar system is a useful way to learn about it. Here are various related pages." - From vendian.org - http://www.vendian.org/mncharity/dir3/solarsystem/

Solar System Theme Unit: Worksheets, Planets, Math Problems ... __ Printable worksheets, logic problems, word searches, and puzzles. - From edhelper.com - http://edhelper.com/SolarSystem.htm

Solar System with balloons __ "This Science activity, part of a unit on the Solar System, uses role playing to demonstrate the universe and
its connection to the sun." - Goals, procedure and materials needed. - From col-ed.org - http://www.col-ed.org/cur/sci/sci67.txt

Teacher Planet: Solar System Theme Page __ You will find lesson plans, worksheets, teaching units, clip art and more. - From teacherplanet.com - http://www.teacherplanet.com/resource/solarsystem.php

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