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Class Flow: Planets
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart presents an extensive lesson on the planets of our solar system.
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Class Flow: Reading in the Content Area
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart integrates the reading skill of compare and contrast while learning about the solar system.
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Class Flow: Solar System
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart guides online research on a study of our solar system and links the teacher to a WebQuest activity.
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Class Flow: Solar System Jeopardy
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart provides a quiz with mostly multiple choice questions specific to planets, comets, space travel, and our moon.
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Class Flow: Solar System Quiz
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is an assessment flipchart that explores the location of planets in our solar system.
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Class Flow: Space Solar System
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students will compare and contrast the attributes of star, star patterns and planets. Students will also have the opportunity to review facts about each planet and then complete various...
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Class Flow: The Solar System
[Free Registration/Login Required] I created this flipchart to go along with our Harcourt Science textbook. It was created for second grade. It discusses, vocabulary and content that will be tested; and it Includes an Activote quiz.
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American Meteor Society: Comets & Meteor Showers
This site from the American Meteor Society contains links to a calendar of meteor shower events and links to information on meteor showers. Also, contains information on comets.
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Class Flow: What Happened to Pluto?
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart was created to teach students about Pluto and the recent news of it NOT being a planet (officially). Lots of ways for students to vote on why as well as discussions about what other facts...
My Hero Project
My Hero: Galileo
"First to use a telescope to overserve the starts and planets," Galileo Galilei secretly published his work, which contradicted the Catholic Church's teachings. Use this site to learn about how Galileo's independence and courage made him...
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Class Flow: Astronomy and the Solar System
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart presents the layers of the Sun and the components of the solar system.
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Class Flow: Latin the Language of the Solar System
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students will learn the history of the solar system and how it is associated with the Roman and Greek Gods.
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Class Flow: Learning the Planets
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart includes a matching activity for students to match the planet's names with their pictures.
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Class Flow: Linking You to Our Solar System
[Free Registration/Login Required] Single flipchart page with links to many of the Solar Systems heavenly Bodies. The links allow you to collect Solar system cards from a wonderful website.
Nine Planets
The Nine Planets: Sun Picture List
Various pictures and movies of the sun. Download some of these files and then give a presentation to your class explaining the solar phenomena.
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Espace: Park City Space (French)
Park City Space offers many supports discovery accessible to elementary students. Take a virtual tour.
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Stellarium: Planetarium
Bring a planetarium to your computer with this free open source software. Download the software to show the sky in 3D with the naked eye.
NASA
Nasa: The Space Place
This site from NASA's Space Place is geared towards early elementary learners. It offers detailed instructions for crafts and activities related to space, games and a teacher resource area. Students can also ask an expert at this site.
NASA
Nasa Star Child: What Is a Light Year and How Is It Used?
This is a definition and example of how distance is measured in astronomy, such as the distance between our earth and the stars.
NASA
Nasa Star Child: Mercury
Provides good information about Mercury and is a good starting point for information about the planet along with pictures and audio. Links to a simple fact table, puzzle, glossary, and more detailed information.
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The Telson Spur: The Solar System
This is a list of links to online resources related to the study of the planets. It has a literary theme associated with the Lewis Carrol poem "The Hunting of the Snark" with many quotes from literature and science. Navigation tools...
Fourmilab Switzerland
John Walker: Solar System Live
This planetarium program allows you to create an accurate model of the solar system with icons or pictures of each planet. You can specify a date in the past or the future, change the viewpoint to any latitude/longitude, and even view in...
NASA
Nasa: Surface Maps of the Solar System
Solar system surface map database. Includes maps of all solid planets and many moons. Maps of gas planets are either based on images taken by Voyager, or are fictitious maps including general storm systems.