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 Orbits of Planets (SETI Institute) Provides a lesson that demonstrates the orbits of planets. 5-01 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 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 Search (University of Michigan) syst Papers -Solar System - Bodies (Hamilton) Includes pictures of each planet, the sun, asteroids, comets, and meteors. 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 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 Solar System (KidsAstronomy.com) Provides information and a picture for each planet of the solar system. 11-00. 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 Data (Royal Observatory) Provides basic data, such as the sizes, mass (weight), orbits, and distances of planets and moons. 10-00 Solar System Origins (Royal Observatory) Provides the main theories about how the solar system was first formed. 10-00 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 Terraforming - Bringing Life to a Planet (SpaceRef Interactive) Provides sources of information on terraforming, especially Mars. 8-00 Weight on Other Planets (Discovery.com - WebMath) Provides your weight on other planets or the moon. 6-01 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 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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