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Handout
Other

University of Leicester: The Solar System

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource explores the solar system, with an in depth discussion of each of the planets and their properties.
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Website
NASA

Nasa Jpl: Galileo Legacy Site

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from NASA provides a detailed overview for the Galileo mission to Jupiter. Content ranges from the mission description to Jupiter images to educational resources.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Geo Logic: Terrestrial and Jovian Planets

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Through GEOLogic puzzles, learners are given clues about properties about the terrestrial and Jovian planets respectively, and challenged to match the planet with the correct equatorial radius, mean orbital velocity, and period of rotation.
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Handout
Other

British National Space Centre: Uranus

For Students 9th - 10th
Part of a larger site on the Solar System, this page offers an image of Uranus and information about its discovery, size, orbit, and atmosphere. Follow links in the left margin to read more about the planet's composition, rotation, and...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Composition of the Solar System

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will use a reading selection to compare the solar system to a neighborhood and do some writing, drawing and make comparisons to reinforce their knowledge about the rocky planets, gas giants and amount of matter in the solar system.