Seasons Simulator
From the good folks at Khan academy comes a valuable Seasons Simulator that will show your students everything you’ve been…
Category: Space
Sun, Earth, Moon Model To Scale
This lesson starts with the assumption of the sun being a basketball. If that’s true, then how big would earth…
Solar System Formation Cause-And-Effect Flow Chart
The purpose of this graphic organizer is to get your students to analyze and interact with information that, by itself…
6 Ancient Astronomers
When you get into the beliefs of early astronomers like Aristotle, Kepler, and Copernicus, you find out quickly there’s a…
Moon Phases graphic organizer
Teaching the moon phases? This graphic organizer cuts through all the distractions and simply illustrates why the moon keeps changing…
History Of Orbiting Theories
A fascinating look back and how the greatest minds wrestled with the concept of the earth’s place in the universe.…
Solar System To Scale
As close as we’ll get to understanding the vast distances and diameters of what’s in our solar system. (“Oh, that’s why they…
Moon Phases
What causes the moon phases- is it clouds? Earth’s shadow? No, and no. After this lesson, your students will wonder…
Living Solar System
Get ready to think big! We’re going to turn your classroom into a “living” inner solar system. Best part- students…
Comets & Asteroids-What They Are, Where They Are, They And Us
Comets and asteroids capture our imagination with their unbelievable size (did you say a 50-mile-wide flying ice cube?!?!), and terrify…
99.86 Measuring Our Sun’s Mass
Our sun, with a mass that consumes 99.86% of everything in our solar system, is beyond enormous. But how do…
