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
The most powerful solar flare in the last 500 years occurred on September 2, 1859 and was sighted by two astronomers who happened to be looking at the sun at exactly the right time!