planets

Solar System **Planetary Journeys** Review the presentation

http://www.adlerplanetarium.org/education/resources/ Lesson plans at http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?Grade=6-8&BenchmarkID=4&DocID=165 http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?Grade=6-8&BenchmarkID=4&DocID=165 JPL – NASA Jet Propulsion Lab – home page at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm JPL Solar System page at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/solar_system/planets/planets_index.html Mars Exploration Program at http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/ rich resource with fun kid’s zone and teaching sites - free poster available Mars: Latest mission - Phoenix home page at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/phoenix/main.php Cassini-Huygens home at http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm; Videos! educational project index and overview at http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/education/index.cfm (K-12) 5-8 Grade list at http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/education/edu-58-kitchen.cfm includes finding worlds at http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/education/pdfs/Finding_Worlds.pdf Mapping Worlds with Peanuts http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/education/pdfs/Mapping_Worlds.pdf Build a model of the space probe at http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/kids/activities-model-simple.cfm Saturn moons Enceladus multimedia at http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features/feature20080307.cfm Titan multimedia at http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features/feature20070129.cfm Orbits http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?orbits Welcome to the Planets – JPL’s photo collection http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/ SpacePlace Kids Projects at http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/projects.shtml Excellent Games at http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/games.shtml (Vec Touring - graph to get to the launch) Teacher’s Page Nasa Space Place for classroom activities http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/educators/teachers_page2.shtml Construct paper models of various NASA spacecraft http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/kids/papermodels.cfm Exploratorium Saturn http://www.exploratorium.edu/saturn/index.html Jewel of the Solar System The Nine Planets http://www.nineplanets.org/ links to multimedia tour of the solar system Solar Views http://www.solarviews.com/eng/toc.htm with updated info Windows to the Universe, at http://www.windows.ucar.edu/, is another learner-friendly website featuring " images, movies, animations, and data sets, that explore the Earth and Space sciences and the historical and cultural ties between science, exploration, and the human experience." UCAR is the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. Its Education and Professioal Development page is at http://www.ucar.edu/tools/education.jsp with links to various programs and resources. Hurricane Strike is also a part of UCAR.

Educational resources from the Lunar and Planetary Institute include lesson plans and activities are online at http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/. Build a Solar System calculates proportional data for modeling http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/solar_system/index.html Your age on different planets http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/age/index.html plus some interesting math when you scroll down and Your weight on different planets http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/weight/index.html Interactive index at http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/gallery_index.cfm JPL ... kewl Views and news of the Solar System http://www.solarviews.com/eng/homepage.htm NASA’s solar system exploration site [|http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/index.cfm] Galileo Journey to Jupiter http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/index.html Sense of Scale: Online orbit tracker http://www.fourmilab.ch/solar/solar.html ... Solar System Live lets you see the orbits visually on any date you choose; has full solar system and inner planets. Your Sky is an interactive planetarium of the Web where you can produce star/sky maps for any time and date, viewpoint, and observing location at http://www.fourmilab.ch/yoursky/ Looking for other planets http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/gallery_index.cfm Planetary Society http://planetary.org/home/ AMNH Astronomy pages with interactive activities [<span|http://amnh.org/ology/?channel=astronomy#channel]
 * Solar System Walk (NJ) with virtual walk at http://www.njaa.org/sswalk/sswalk.html#null
 * Maine ’s walk of the system http://www.umpi.maine.edu/info/nmms/solar/index.htm

Annotated index and links from NASA at http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/nai/education-and-outreach/teachers/ This booklet, originally produced by NAI in 2000 and updated in 2007, contains five inquiry- and standards-based classroom activities for grades 5-8 and three math extensions spanning topics from "Defining Life," to "Determining the Chances of Extraterrestrial Life." Download the 60-page booklet here: http://nai.arc.nasa.gov/library/downloads/Astrobiology-Educator-Guide-2007.pdf (5.3MB) Looking for Life http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/videos/phoenix/phx20070724/ Astrobiology pages with hand-outs and activities (check out) New one at http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/nai/ http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/nai/education-and-outreach/ includes link for excellent 60-page curriculum guide; this page at http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/nai/education-and-outreach/teachers/#26 has links for TERRIFIC interactives (Scroll Down) NASA interactive Alien Safari looks at extremophiles on planet earth http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/AlienSafari_launch_page.html Aliens at the UK Science Museum [[[]%3C/span%3E%3Cspan|http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/on-line/aliens/play.asp\|http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/on-line/aliens/play.asp\]] Page of interactive games = Play Real or Fake – and links to other lesson plans connecting biology and space at http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/on-line/aliens/education.asp AMNH Journey to the Deep See Vents http://amnh.org/ology/?channel=earth#features/deepseavent?TB_iframe=true&height=535&width=750
 * Astrobiology**
 * Extremophiles**