Reading, Writing and Rings!: (Gr 1-2) #6 Earth to Saturn, Earth to Saturn!
Topic: Language Arts and Science
Grade Level: K-4
Body: Earth, Saturn
Mission: Cassini (Saturn)
Short Description: Students use drawing and writing to explore the comparative features of Saturn and Earth. This series introduces science into a reading and writing curriculum.
Scale Model of Sun and Earth
Topic: Modeling Solar System Objects
Grade Level: K-4
Body: Sun, Earth
Short Description: This activity explores the relative size of the sun and Earth, as well as the distance between them.
Size and Shape Imaged
Topic: Life
Body: Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Asteroids, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Comets, Kuiper Belt & Oort Cloud, Earth's Moon
Short Description: This activity contains a series of images of very small things. Students will view the images, hear the information from a script, and make some observations and connections. They will see Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) images and Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) images of small living organisms and rock surfaces. Then, using their new perspective, they will view unidentified samples and speculate about the surfaces and the origins of the features in the images. The goal is to get the students to think about looking at very small objects and to realize
that observations are a great way to start scientific research.
Solar System Exploration Mission Timeline Activity
Topic: Modeling Solar System Objects
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Our Solar System, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Asteroids, Meteors & Meteorites, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Dwarf Planets, Comets, Kuiper Belt & Oort Cloud, Earth's Moon, Europa
Mission: ARTEMIS (Earth's Moon), Cassini (Saturn), Dawn (Dwarf Planets), DSN (Our Solar System), GRAIL (Earth's Moon), Hubble (Beyond Our Solar System), Huygens (Saturn), IBEX (Our Solar System), InSight (Mars), Juno (Jupiter), Lunar Recon Orbiter (Earth's Moon), MESSENGER (Mercury), NEAR Shoemaker (Asteroids), New Horizons (Dwarf Planets), Phoenix (Mars), Stardust (Comets), Venus Express (Venus), Viking 01 (Mars), Viking 02 (Mars), Voyager 1 (Our Solar System), Voyager 2 (Our Solar System)
Short Description: Extreme Exploration -- Solar System Exploration Missions Timeline involves students in the wide range of mission events of 2008-2015+. Using the Solar System Exploration Timeline poster as a guide, student teams research assigned missions and record events such as launch and landing, etc. It is expected that students will be drawn into the excitement of mission events as they follow along with NASA's Solar System Exploration -- past, current, and future.
Solar System Lithograph Set
Topic: Solar System Formation
Body: Earth
Short Description: Lithographs contain images, fast facts, significant dates and background about planets and solar bodies.
Space Math: NASA-funded research discovers life built with toxic chemical
Topic: Math
Grade Level: 9-12
Body: Earth
Short Description: Students explore the DNA of an organism based on arsenic and not phosphorus.
Terrabagga Activity Using a Magnetometer
Topic: Magnetism
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Earth
Short Description: This activity models real-world uses of a magnetometer instrument. Students will see how magnetic fields of the planets and moons are found. (Click here for the activity page, which includes links to some of the materials.)
The Penny Moon and Quarter Earth
Topic: Modeling Solar System Objects
Grade Level: 9-12
Body: Earth, Earth's Moon
Short Description: The students use a penny and a quarter to model the Moon's rotation on its axis and revolution around the Earth, and demonstrate that the Moon keeps the same face toward the Earth.
The Rare Earth -- How Rare is Earth-Like Life?
Grade Level: 9-12
Body: Earth
Short Description: How special are the circumstances that have allowed complex life, like animals and plants, to develop on Earth? In this activity, students systematically investigate the time frame for complex life to develop on Earth.
The SETI Academy Planet Project: Volume 1 -- Evolution of a Planetary System
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Earth
Short Description: In this soon-to-be three-volume set, fifth and sixth grade students are invited to become members of the "SETI Academy." As academy members, they explore Earth's history for clues to the possible existence of life beyond our solar system. Designed for science classes, these volumes can be used individually or in series to create a comprehensive, thematic, scientific exploration for students.
Volume 1: After exploring the evolution of our solar system, students apply that information to simulate the possible evolution of a planetary system beyond our own.
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