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This Science Weekly Five supplemental stations unit is all about our moon.
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•The students will be able to describe and demonstrate the motions of the sun and moon.
•The students will be able to describe how t...
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Lesson plan about the different moon phases. This lesson comes with an observation sheet for the students to record throughout the week.
This science experiment will have students understanding how craters are formed on the surface of the moon. With the help of marbles, sand, and r...
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A very fun and engaging activity to help your students really grasp the concept of Earth rotating as it orbits around the Sun. Students will wal...
A ten page science lab comparing craters made in different substances (flour, sugar, corn starch), with two different sized marbles, from 3 diffe...
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Space! Unscramble words to complete sentences
sun
star
telescope
magnify
moon
Your students will perform various calculations that compare Earth statistics with other planets in our solar system. The activity is designed t...
This smartboard lesson showcases our solar system and how the sun is responsible for much of our lives. It includes the following:
Why do we have...
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An easy but very effective experiment for helping students understand how light entering our atmosphere from space can be blocked by particles su...
"One Small Step For Man, One Giant Leap For Learning"
Teach students the difference between the moon and Earth's atmosphere with this "flour" ...
This lab is a really fun way to use discovery and investigation to teach students how gravity and inertia cause tides, along with the moon. The c...
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The students will use www.moonconnection.com to complete an activity exploring the phases of the moon. This website shows the current and future...
Liven up your unit on Space Science with a wide variety of teacher designed and classroom tested activites, labs and projects. You will be glad ...
Students use Oreo cookies (or a similar cookie) to represent the various phases of the moon. A really fun and interactive activity that can be d...
A fantastic project to use while teaching or reviewing the phases of the moon and the different types of eclipses!
The project asks students t...
This is a template that students can use as they are beginning their exploration of the sun and shadows. This helps introduce the idea of the su...
A fun lab to demonstrate a solar and lunar eclipse.
NOte* Full lab includes the directions
Three page lab. Uses data from 1950-2009 - students plot sunspot number over time. Here is an excerpt:
Introduction: Photographs of the sun show...
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This makes a fun scale model of the solar system that shows students the relative sizes of the items in our solar system.
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Dippin' Dot Neutrinos is a lesson plan for high school and college science students interested in exploring ghostlike particles called solar neut...
A 2 page demonstration lab using an item called the "Astroblaster", which simulates a super nova.
Students recive an egg that becomes their "Mars Rover." They need to apply the three laws of physics to designing landing gear for their egg. T...
This lab is designed to help students learn the 8 phases of the moon. By using Oreos as models, students create the phases on each cookie, put th...
What is the reason for the seasons? Have your students try this inquiry-based lab to find out. Few materials are needed, students investigate a...
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A multi-day lab where students use technology to find, measure, and predict crater and projectile characteristics. Students will also generate t...
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This lab uses one of the excellent online simulations at PhET: http://phet.colorado.edu
From the PhET site: "In order to help students visuall...
Students will use diffraction grating glasses to examine the spectra through various colored filters.
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This is a printable lab sheet that helps students compare the four basic phases of moon using an Oreo cookie. This is aligned to Texas State Sta...
This activity works well with elementary or middle school studies of the planets. Some computer research provides the kids with a background for ...
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Full-size cut out - print on card stock. Students create their own astrolabe.
• In this activity students design an experiment using materials to test how meteoroid size affects the size of Moon craters. Students will be ...
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OBJECTIVE: To understand that the observed phase of the Moon is determined by the Moon's position relative to the Earth and Sun
Students use sty...
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A set of four hands-on labs using rockets made from a sheet of copy paper, tape, and 2 index cards. You will need PVC pipes (12 in. long and 1/2...
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Students will use three colored LED lights to investigate the formation of the primary colors of light.
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1 hour
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The labs for the Space and Planets were created to teach students from K – 8 about how space and planets work and interact. This zip file inclu...
Working in a microgravity environment requires a whole new set tools to perform experiements, build equipment and maintain equipment. Something ...
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50 Minutes
Everything that we know about stars we know from analyzing their light. How much, really, can you know about a star just by studying its light? I...
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50 Minutes
This is a two for one activity set. Both of them involve taking distances in space and scaling them down to sizes observable on Earth. The first ...
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This activity enables students as young as 1st grade successfully to create and test the GREENHOUSE EFFECT that takes place in a closed glass jar...
This interactive lab with full teacher key and PowerPoint (for PC users) and Keynote (for Mac users) presentations for middle school and high sch...
Students work to discover the pattern of the phases of the moon, the naming system and the scientific explanation for the cause of the phases of ...
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45 Minutes
Students will use an online simulation to determine the distances to star clusters by fitting the H-R diagram of each cluster to a normal main-se...
This lab or activity guides the student through "crowd-sourced science" through the Zooniverse suite of internet sites. Using data from the STERE...
Students get to be among the first in history to view and classify galaxies, as part of the "Zooniverse" project. This lab exercise, including an...
One page activity where students use a program like "Starry Night-Pro" to plot the positions of Jupiter's four main moons. They then draw curved ...
One of the largest misconceptions that students have is just how large our sun really is compared to other objects in our solar system. This sho...
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30 Minutes
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A great lab to demonstrate how rockets work. Very safe and inexpensive!!! Students love it!!
Ever had a hard time teaching the planets the students? Make it more engaging by making it edible! This lesson walks you through how to make an...
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