Lesson+Plans+and+Websites

This lesson plan helps students better recognize a few famous constellations. It will also allow students to interact with each other about their own constellations and opinions. This lesson plan helps students understand the size and distance of the planets. They will investigate concepts of size and distance by creating basic models. This lesson plan allows students to understand the history of the space race and exploration.
 * Lesson Plans: Bailey Rainey**
 * [|Constellations- Lesson Plan]**
 * Size and Distance of Planets Lesson Plan**
 * Lift off into space**

This website lets kids click on different planets to learn about it. An Astronomy game that lets kids drive their spaceships around, and explore stars. This website tells students about Earth. It is from NASA.
 * Websites: Bailey Rainey**
 * The Solar System**
 * Virtual Star Explorer**
 * 10 THINGS ABOUT EARTH**

Lesson Plans: Kelsey Shreve This lesson plan introduce students to planetary research and familiarize them with the planets and their features. After researching the nine planets of our solar system and the sun, the students will be able to describe the in detail characteristics of the planets, sun, and starts of our solar system. In this activity, you'll investigate the concepts of relative size and distance by creating a basic model of our solar system.

Websites: Kelsey Shreve http://mistupid.com/astronomy/solarsystem.htm This website allows students to click on planets and see facts about that planet. http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/ This website shows pictures taken by NASA of all the planets. http://www.kidsastronomy.com/our_sun.htm This website also allows students to click on the planets but get more interesting facts and materials on each planet.

In this activity, students learn about astronauts and what they eat in space. They get to make dehydrated food and try it. In this lesson, student will make paper airplanes and modify them to fly better. They will relate this to spacecrafts and how they fly. In this lesson, students make their own planets. The lesson says 9 planets, but we'll explain why Pluto is no longer a planet. They basically make paper mache planets.
 * Lesson Plans: Jaime Eversole**
 * People and Space**
 * Inventors and Inventions 2: Air and Space**
 * Classroom Planetarium**

This website allows the teacher to expand his or her knowledge on the solar system. It also gives a visual of the solar system. This website allows kids to explore the solar system on their own and read about the different planets and moons. It has sounds and effects that would catch their attention. This website allows teachers to visit different links for content on the solar system. It also provides lesson plan and activity links.
 * Websites: Jaime Eversole**
 * @http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/index.cfm**
 * @http://www.kidsastronomy.com/solar_system.htm**
 * @http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/solar.html**