Download Space - School District #42

Gr
3
Space
I
like
to
begin
with
a
bit
of
play
based
activity
–
I
like
to
use
lots
of
different
websites
so
it
pays
to
have
kids
bookmark
them
on
the
bookmark
bar
in
a
folder
that
you
call
space
–
that
way
kids
just
need
to
pull
down
to
the
website
you
ask
them
to
visit
1) Go
to
Nasa
Kids
Space
Place
–
play
the
games
2) Google
‐
Cool
cosmos
–This
gets
you
to
the
website
–
Welcome
to
Cool
Cosmos
‐click
on
the
gearbox
to
get
it
to
cosmic
kids
and
then
click
on
the
tab
‐ask
an
astronaut
–
Here
we
are
going
to
a. find
out
about
the
sun
–
do
a
kidpix
page
about
it
–
b. then
compare
the
moon
to
earth
and
do
a
page
about
it
–
c. star
–
what
is
a
star
–
kid
pix
page
Now
Choose
a
Planet
and
We
are
going
to
do
a
report
about
it‐
3) Kids
astronomy
.com
–
click
on
solar
system
–
look
at
and
discuss
the
planets
and
how
they
rotate
around
the
sun
Children
now
choose
a
planet
and
click
on
it,
then
find
out
how
long
their
planet
takes
to
orbit
the
sun.
For
each
of
the
pages
I
follow
these
same
procedure
‐
Go
to
kpx
3D
–
go
to
backgrounds
and
choose
a
space
background–
Now
click
on
the
T
and
click
on
your
screen
to
make
a
text
box
‐write
how
long
it
takes
your
planet
to
orbit
the
sun,
then
go
to
sounds
and
movies
and
click
on
the
record
button
–
speak
into
it
–
next
click
on
frames
and
add
a
spacesuit
–
reading
your
sentence
‐
save
as
planet1
4) Go
to
nineplanets.org
and
take
a
solar
system
tour
–
In
the
Heliocentric
view
–
click
on
your
planet
–
then
the
distance
meter
and
then
the
sun,
this
measures
the
distances
between
planets
and
between
the
sun
and
planets
–
Tell
how
far
your
planet
is
from
the
sun.
kpx
page
–
save
as
planet2
(
free
time
–
play
astronomy
games
–
make
a
planet
or
make
a
solar
system
on
this
website)
5) Exploratorium.edu
–
explore
–
astronomy
and
space
–
click
on
your
age
on
other
worlds
–
do
a
kid
pix
page
on
it
If
I
lived
on
____
I
would
be
____
years
old.
Save
as
planet3
6) Watch
space
shuttle
blastoff
at
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/videos/space/shuttlelaun
ch.html
Watch
the
appollo
moon
landing
from
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/videos/space/moonlandin
g.html
Go
to
Exploratorium.edu
and
click
on
your
weight
on
other
planets.
Do
a
page
on
how
much
you
would
weigh
on
your
planet
–
discuss
gravity
and
how
it
is
different
on
different
planets
–
the
bigger
the
planet
–
the
more
the
gravity
save
as
planet4
7) Kids
astronomy
.com
–
click
on
solar
system
–
then
click
on
your
planets
moons
‐How
many
moons
does
your
planet
have?
–
find
out
and
drag
pictures
of
your
moons
to
your
desktop
and
import
them
into
kidpix
and
write
facts
about
at
least
one
of
them
–
kpx
–
(
people
doing
venus
or
mercury
need
to
choose
to
tell
us
something
else
about
their
planet)I
also
have
them
drag
the
graphics
from
the
website
to
the
desktop
and
then
once
they
are
in
kidpix
I
have
them
import
them
so
they
can
be
on
the
page
‐
save
as
planet5
8) How
big
is
your
planet?
Tell
me
how
many
earths
would
fit
in
your
planet
–
go
to
enchanted
learning
–
solar
system
and
read
and
write
about
it
–drag
the
picture
that
shows
the
relative
size
of
your
planet
compared
to
earth
–
to
your
desktop
and
then
import
it
into
kidpix
‐save
as
planet6