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Solar System: Everything You Need

Lesson plans, interactive activities, and other resources to help students learn about and explore our solar system

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The Solar System

Grades: 3–5, 6–8, 9–12

Take a trip through the Solar System, passing the Sun, the nine planets, moons and asteroids.

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Lesson Plans, Extension Activities, Writing Activities, Book Resources

Reading and Writing About the Solar System

Grades: 1–2

Immerse your students in books and poetry to teach about the solar system with some of these creative ideas.

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Solar System Books

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12

Check out these great books at The Teacher Store.

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Planet Roll Call

Grades: 1–2

Planet Roll Call

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Computer Lab Activities, Interactive Whiteboard Activities, Online Learning Activities

Journey Into Space: A Science Exploration

Grades: 3–5, 6–8, 9–12

Watch and learn about collisions in space with Dr. Mike Shara. Continue to leveled activities for different skills and grade ranges.

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Articles

Discover the Planets printable

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2

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Surface Features

Grades: 6–8, 9–12

Naked-eye as well as more detailed telescopic and satellite observations disclose that the lunar surface consists mainly of two different types of...

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Transient Lunar Phenomena

Grades: 6–8, 9–12

Temporary changes in the appearance of lunar features are known as temporary lunar phenomena, or TLP. Such occasional changes have been noted...

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The Planets

Grades: 6–8, 9–12

The nine planets of the solar system may be divided into two groups: the inner, or terrestrial, planets, and the outer, or Jovian, planets. This...

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Articles

Chemical Composition

Grades: 6–8, 9–12

Direct information on the chemical composition of the Moon became available in 1969 with the return of the first Apollo mission. Although the data...

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Articles

Interplanetary Probes

Grades: 6–8, 9–12

The exploration of other bodies in the solar system began within a few years of the first satellites. Both U.S. and Soviet space engineers set...

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Temperature

Grades: 6–8, 9–12

Because the sole source of the Moon's heat is derived from its illumination by the Sun, its mean temperature would be about that of the Earth...

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Asteroids and Meteoroids

Grades: 6–8, 9–12

The major planets in the solar system are greatly outnumbered by the swarms of smaller bodies called minor planets, or asteroids, and by the even...

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Formation and Evolution

Grades: 6–8, 9–12

The Moon and the Earth have been companions for several billion years, and one Moon-formation theory proposes that they have been so since the...

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Comets

Grades: 6–8, 9–12

Comets are sometimes spectacular objects from the outer regions of the solar system, as far away as a substantial fraction of the distance to the...

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Dust Rings

Grades: 6–8, 9–12

The sun is also encircled by rings, or disks, of interplanetary dust. One such ring, lying in the zone between the orbital paths of Jupiter and...

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Articles

Origin of the Solar System

Grades: 6–8, 9–12

For more than 300 years there has been serious scientific discussion of the processes and events that led to the formation of the solar system....

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Articles

Solar Apex

Grades: 6–8, 9–12

Finally, the movement of the solar system as a whole through space is defined in terms of the celestial sphere, the imaginary sphere of the...

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Activities and Games, Lesson Plans

The Magic School Bus Lost in Space

Grades: 3–5

In this activity, your child learns the planets by making two models of the Solar System. The first shows the order of the planets, and the second...

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Articles, Online Learning Activities

See the Light

Grades: 3–5, 6–8

This content resource helps teachers locate online resources on light and energy. Web links to light and energy topics, facts on light and energy...

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Articles, Online Learning Activities

Truckin’ Around the Solar System

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2

This content resource helps teachers locate online resources on the solar system. This site can be used by teachers to develop lesson plans or by...

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Extension Activities, Book Resources

The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System Extension Activities

Grades: 3–5

Extension activity for The Magic School Bus® Lost in the Solar System by Joanna Cole.

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Vocabulary Builders, Book Resources

The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar Vocabulary Builder

Grades: 3–5

Vocabulary builder for The Magic School Bus® Lost in the Solar System by Joanna Cole.

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