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Lesson Plans Astronomy - Comparative Planetology - Grade 12 (British Columbia Ministry of Education) Provides a lesson on comparative planetology. For the 12th grade level. The materials are called an Integrated Resource Package. 2-01 Astronomy - Solar System - Grade 9 (British Columbia Ministry of Education) Provides a lesson plan for the 9th grade level. The materials are called an Integrated Resource Package. 2-01 Finding Planets (University of California - Gould) Provides a lesson to help students locate planets. 3-01 Solar System (University of California - SEGway) Provides a lesson to explore the solar system. 3-01 Lists Building a Scale Model of the Solar System (CNN) Provides sources of information to build a scale model of the solar system. 5-02 Gravitational Wave Detection (CalTech) Provides links to projects studying gravitational waves, such as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) project. Solar System Search (Hamilton) Provides a search engine for pictures and articles related to astronomy and the solar system. syst 5-02 Solar System Sites (Oswego City School District - Chamberlain) Provides sources of information, including lesson plans, related to the solar system. 12-02 Space Exploration Search (NASA) Searches NASA for information on space exploration, such as flights to Mars or the Moon, the Space Station, telescopes, pictures of planets, and more. Materials Earth from Far, Far Away and Very, Very Close (Florida State University - Davidson) "View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons." 9-02 Solar System (NASA) Provides a drawing of the solar system. syst 12-99 Solar System - Printable Pictures (NASA - Spaceplace) Provides printable color pictures of the Sun, Moon, Earth, and other planets of the solar system. Includes Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus, Pluto, Halley's Comet, the asteroid Eros, and the moons Charon, Io, Ganymede, and Titan. 9-01 Solar System Coloring Book (EnchantedLearning.com) Provides pictures of each planet, as well as the sun. 1-05 News Search for Extraterrestrial Life Within the Solar System (NASA - NAI) Provides information about the possibilities of life on other planets in our solar system. Also see Extraterrestrial Life outside our solar system. 02-06 Papers -12-15-05 Oddball Object Discovered Beyond Neptune (ABC News) "A distant object named Buffy has been spotted circling the sun far beyond Neptune in a strange tilted orbit that is making some astronomers question how the outer reaches of the solar system formed." "Officially called 2004 XR 190 by the International Astronomical Union but code-named Buffy, the object is now about 58 times as far from the sun as Earth, and twice as far from the sun as Neptune." "The Kuiper Belt is a ring of space objects that may be remnants from the early solar system. Most of these objects orbit the sun between 30 and 50 times the distance that Earth orbits. The distance from Earth to the sun — 93 million miles — is known as one astronomical unit." 12-05 -12-15-05 Oddball Object Discovered Beyond Neptune (CFEPS) "Currently 58 astronomical units from the Sun (1 astronomical unit, or AU, is the distance between the Earth and the Sun), the new object never approaches closer than 50 AU, because its orbit is close to circular. Almost all Kuiper belt objects discovered beyond Neptune are between 30 AU and 50 AU away. Beyond 50 AU, the main Kuiper belt appears to end, and what few objects have been discovered beyond this distance have all been on very high eccentricity (non-circular) orbits." 12-05 -Solar System - Bodies (Hamilton) Includes pictures of each planet, the sun, asteroids, comets, and meteors. 9-05 syst 7-00 -Solar System - Relationships (Hamilton) Includes comparisons of bodies within the solar system, as well describing phenomena of the solar system. Includes discriptions of how the solar system operates as a whole, such as the interaction between the interstellar winds and the heliosphere of solar winds. syst 7-00 Ion Powered Space Ships (NASA) Describes how ion powered spacecrafts might be desirable for long space missions. 11-00. Orbits of Planets (Walker) Shows the position of planets in relationship to each other at a particular time. 8-01 Planet Sizes (PlanetPals.com) Shows the relative size of each planet in our solar system. syst 8-00 Planets (National Air and Space Museum) Provides basic facts on each planet. 3-01 Planets from Different Views (Geometry Technologies - ScienceU.com) Provides views of planets, the sun, and the moon at different distances and from different angles. 5-01 Planets of the Solar System (NCats.net) Provides a short description of each planet, stating how it is distinct from the other one. Editor's Note - Some astronomers no longer consider Pluto to be a planet. 7-02 Questions About Nebulae (ASK and Astronomer for Kids) Provides over a dozen interesting questions and answers for children...and adults. Also spelled "nebulas." 01-06 Questions About the Solar System (ASK and Astronomer for Kids) Provides over a dozen interesting questions and answers for children...and adults. 01-06 Remembering the 11 Planets (CNN News) "Those having trouble remembering the newly assigned 11 planets, including three dwarfs, are getting help from a fourth-grader." " Her award-winning phrase is: My Very Exciting Magic Carpet Just Sailed Under Nine Palace Elephants." "The 11 recognized planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and Eris." 02-08 Sequence of Orbits of Planets (NASA) Shows the order of the planets from the sun. 02-06 Solar System (KidsAstronomy.com) Provides information and a picture for each planet of the solar system. 11-00. Solar System (Wikibooks.org) Provides a "junior encyclopedia" of knowledge about the solar system, including each planet, the sun, the moon, comets, the asteroid belt, the Kuiper Belt, the Oort Cloud, and a glossary. 1-05 Solar System - Formation and Evolution (Schombert) Provides a series of lectures. High school and introductory college level. syst Solar System - Size and Scale (Charity) syst Solar System - Terms (Hamilton) Provides an alphabetic glossary of terms used in astronomy, especially related to the solar system. syst 7-00 Solar System Basics (Arnett) Provides pictures and basic facts about the Sun, Moon, Earth, and other planets of the solar system. Includes Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus, Pluto, Halley's Comet, the asteroid Eros, and the moons Charon, Io, Ganymede, Titan, and more. 1-02 Solar System in Pictures (The-Solar-System.net) Ogranizes pictures of the solar system around planets. "This website has 315 web pages with over 340 pictures. This website has 2 purposes: To give a pictorial overview of the solar system and to quiz you about these pictures." 10-04 Solar Systems Similar to Ours Found (USAToday.com - Fergano) "European and U.S. astronomers Thursday announced the discovery of two solar systems with planets in orbits similar to our own, a finding that boosts the odds that they harbor extraterrestrial life." One orbits the star 55 Cancri. 6-02 Space Suits (SpaceRef Interactive) Provides sources of information on space suits. 8-00 Projects Extremophiles (NASA Science) Provides articles, lessons, and worksheets related to life forms that can thrive in very extreme conditions, such as heat, cold, pressure, radiation, salt, and even the vacuum of space. 8-00 Solar System Library (NASA - Seal) syst Viking's Search for Life (School.Discovery.com) "Recreating how the Viking landers conducted their search for life on Mars is a great way for students to understand what the search for extraterrestrial really encompasses. In this activity, students add salt, baking powder, and yeast to jars of sand and then test for the production of gas when sugar water is added." 1-04 Worksheets Solar System Worksheet (KidsAstronomy.com) Provides a worksheet on the solar system. 11-00. Solar System Worksheets (AbcTeach) Provides dozens of worksheets to help children have a better understanding of the solar system. 8-01

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