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Astronomy and Space Classroom Activities and Lesson Plans


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thirteen ed online logo The Size and Distance of the Planets
A good lesson plan and classroom activity that demonstrates the immense scale of the solar system. This astronomy - space lesson plan can easily be adapted for elementary, secondary, middle school, and university students.

harvard Eyes on the Sky, Feet on the Ground
This is a list of astronomy - space lesson plans that demonstrate, explore, and analyze astronomy- space through projects, worksheets, and classroom activities. These lesson plans can be adapted for elementary, secondary, middle school, and university level students.

nasa lunar Views of the Solar System
Calvin J. Hamilton has created a vivid multimedia adventure of the solar system throughout this website. There are great photographs, lesson plans, activities, scientific facts, and many more resources that can be used in the earth and space science classroom.

nasa logo NASA's page for educators
NASA provides lesson plans, projects, classroom activities, demonstrations and many other educational resources for elementary, secondary, middle school, and university students.

nasa lunar Make A Crater
This lesson plan demonstrates crater impact factors with a classroom activity. Students will construct a crater project using the instructions. This activity would be good for elementary, secondary, middle school, and university level students.

reach out michigan Galaxy Mapping
This lesson plan has a classroom activity that involves creating a 3-D map project of a galaxy to understand the entire galaxy. This lesson plan can be used for elementary, secondary, middle school, and university level students.

discovery school Planetary Weather
This lesson plan is a good way to demonstrate planetary weather. This classroom activity allows students the chance to explore the weather associated with each planet. This demonstration is good for elementary, secondary, middle school, and university level students.

discover school Savage Sun
This lesson plan involves a classroom activity to help students understand how the sun produces energy and eliminates confusion about the different types of nuclear reactions. This lesson plan is useful for elementary, secondary, middle school, and university students.

discovery school Telling Time by the Light of the Moon
This lesson plan allows students the chance to explore the moon with classroom activities. This project allows students a chance to understand the phases of the moon and much more. This is good for elementary, secondary, middle school, and university level students.

stardate Colors of Stars

This lesson plan demonstrates how the color of a star is used to explore and explain other phenomena about the star. This classroom activity would be useful for helping elementary, secondary, middle school, and university students visualize this concept.

stardate Super Gelatin
This lesson plan gives students the ability to investigate the speed of light. This classroom activity will take a bit of time and thought, but will be a fun demonstration for elementary, secondary, middle school, and university students.
Astronomy News
Solar Eclipse Photos from Grand Canyon:  NASA has a webpage with photos taken of...

Solar Eclipse Video (7 seconds):  “The joint JAXA/NASA Hinode mission captured this video...

Survey of Potentially Hazardous Asteroids:  “Potentially hazardous asteroids, or PHAs, are a subset...

Super Solar Flares:  Solar flares from our Sun erupt with enormous...

Teacher's Guide: Exploring the Moon:  NASA has published a .pdf document titled: “Exploring...

Speeds of Sand Dunes on Mars:  “Last year, images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter...

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