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Lesson Plans

Paper Airplane Science
This lesson plan for grades 2-6 that teaches the scientific process.
http://www.col-ed.org/cur/sci/sci132.txt

Pathfinder Landing Site
Help students choose a landing site on Mars by using latitude, longitude, velocity, and elevation.
http://tes.asu.edu/

Phases of the Moon
http://www.astro.umd.edu/education/a...on/phases.html

Pop Bottle Programming - Instructions for making a rocket out of a 2 liter bottle.
http://www.cfc-efc.ca/docs/cccf/00000981.htm

Projects with Model Rockets lots of info here!
http://www.apogeerockets.com/education/Edu...al_Projects.asp

Reaching For the Red Planet For grades 4-6, this lesson focuses on planning a Mars colony. Students learn general facts about the planets, the purpose of the colony, etc.
http://lyra.colorado.edu/sbo/mary/redplanet.html

Scale in the Solar System Activities
http://cosmos.colorado.edu/~urquhart/Scale/index.html

Scale Model Comet activity
students make a model of a comet using household materials
http://lyra.colorado.edu/sbo/mary/co...ale_comet.html

The Space Place - Hands on activities
http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/en/kids/projects.shtml

Spotting Sunspots
http://www.reachoutmichigan.org/funexperim...l/sunspots.html

Straw Rockets
Air Powered Rockets
http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/Education/DE..._Worksheet.html

The Sun's Fingerprints
This activity compares human fingerprints to the sun's "fingerprints", or spectrum light.
http://www2.yarden.ac.il/bloss/IAS/unit1_2/espectr1.htm

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Lesson PLans

View To the North
A series of photos of the north sky taken at different hours throughout the night. This lesson teaches the concept of moving stars and rotation of the earth.
http://www2.yarden.ac.il/bloss/IAS/unit1_5/north1.htm

What Are Coordinates?
This lesson involves locating stars with coordinates and uses a chess board as a reference for comparison.
http://www2.yarden.ac.il/bloss/IAS/unit1_3/ecoor1.htm

What Makes the World Turn Around?
http://www.reachoutmichigan.org/funexperim.../worldturn.html

Wonders of Space - many lessons here!
http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow9/dec98/intro.htm

Your Weight On Other Planets
This activity teaches the relation between the weight of human beings and the location at which they are weighed.
http://www2.yarden.ac.il/bloss/IAS/unit1_9/weight1.htm