National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Goddard Space Flight Center
Sun-Earth Day 2009: Our Sun Yours to Discover
K-5 SUN-EARTH CONNECTION LESSON PLANS
- Create an Edible Model of the Sun
- Studying Our Scintillating Sun: Students will construct an edible model of the Sun denoting surface and interior feature.
- The Sun: An Introduction
- This lesson introduces the topic of the Sun. Students also begin making entries in their Science Journals.
- Our Star: The Sun
- This is a unit on the Sun that includes a step by step investigation for the younger student to understand our place in the solar system, using relative size and scaling, rotation and revolution and a number of assessment tools. The individual lessons contain work sheets to give on-going feedback on student comprehension.
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
- The Galileo Project is a source of information on the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Our aim is to provide hypertextual information about Galileo and the science of his time to viewers of all ages and levels of expertise.
- Space Math@NASA
- The goal of these problems is to teach students about astronomy and space science by using mathematics and real-world problems.
ALL SUN-EARTH CONNECTION LESSON PLANS
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NASA Fact
Between May 10-12, 1999, the solar wind nearly vanished, causing Earth's magnetosphere to expand in volume by over 100 times!