Viewing the night sky

Meteors

Comets

motion of earth and planets in solar system

http://vathena.arc.nasa.gov/curric/space/planets/2yrs.mpg

Orbit

http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/spacesciences/observingsky/motion2.htm

Seasons

http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/spacesciences/observingsky/motion3.htm

astronomer=http://teacher.scholastic.com/researchtools/articlearchives/space/career.htm

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/our_solar_system/solar_system.html

games

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/games/games.html

journal

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/php/journal/WBentry.php

space mission

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/space_missions/space_missions.html

space weather

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/space_weather/space_weather.html

astronomy

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/the_universe/the_universe.html

images and multimedia

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/multimedia_gallery/multimedia_gallery.html

ask a scientist

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/kids_space/ask.html

teacher activities

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/teacher_resources/main/activity.html

overview of solar system

http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/tnp/overview.html

solar system by 2^nd graders

http://www.siec.k12.in.us/%7Ewest/proj/space/index.html

Pictures of the planets

http://www.central.k12.ca.us/akers/clipart/solar_system/solar_sys2.html

http://www.central.k12.ca.us/akers/clipart/solar_system/solar_sys3.html

http://www.central.k12.ca.us/akers/clipart/solar_system/solar_sys4.html

Sun	Mercury	Venus	Earth	Mars
Jupiter	Saturn	Uranus	Neptune	Pluto

Compare sizes of planets:

http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/spacesciences/solarsystem/size.htm

characteristics of the sun

Constellations

http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/spacesciences/observingsky/constellations5.htm

http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/spacesciences/observingsky/constellations3.htm

http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/spacesciences/observingsky/constellations1.htm

makes day and night

rotation

seasons and earth’s orbit of the sun

how does the earth sit on it’s axis (tilted)

Demonstrate how the reflection of the sun’s light enables us to see the moon.

Explain how sunlight and the moon’s orbit around Earth make the moon appear to change shape.

Phases of the Moon Movie

Info about phases of the moon

Webquest:

http://student.plattsburgh.edu/bush1474/Solar_System_Web_Quest.htm

Galaxy

A galaxy is a grouping of stars. All but a few stars in the universe live in galaxies. Our Sun is just one of at least 200 billion stars in our own Milky Way Galaxy.

With our best telescopes, we can look deep into space and see billions of galaxies. Galaxies come in all different shapes. Some are spiral shaped like our own Milky Way. Some are like a circle or a flattened circle. Others seem to have no particular shape at all.

Make your own collection of beautiful galaxies. Suspend them on a mobile so they turn and sparkle in the wind.

http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/en/kids/ds1_ast.shtml