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Exploring Our Solar
System
Pam Cohea
You are standing in the
middle of a desert.
Everywhere you look is sand.
This represents the universe.
Universe
Now take a scoop of the
sand in your hand. This
represents our Milky
Way Galaxy.
Milky Way Galaxy
Now take one pinch of the endless
sand. This represents our Solar
System.
If you pinched 100 grains of sand between your
fingers and you counted out 98 of those grains, that
would represent the mass of the sun. The other two
grains of sand would represent the mass of the
combination of all the planets, planetoids, moons,
asteroids, meteors and comets.
(Dwarf Planet)
Remembering Planet (and Dwarf
Planet) Order from the Sun
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My
Very
Exited
Mom
Just
Served
Us
Noodles
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
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My
Mercury
Very
Venus
Exciting
Earth
Magic
Mars
Carpet
Ceres
Just
Jupiter
Sailed
Saturn
Under
Uranus
Nine
Neptune
Palace
Pluto
Elephants Eris
Which celestial bodies are we
comparing? Make the Models!
Teacher
Instructions for
Activity
Click on the links to view the
phases of the moon.
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http://www.astro.wi
sc.edu/~dolan/java/
MoonPhase.html
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http://home.hiwaay.
net/~krcool/Astro/m
oon/moonphase/
Click the Moon to access
Moon Phases Activity
Why do we see only one side of
the moon? Click below for
activity to find out!
Revolution Around the Sun =
One Year
Click to see Earth Revolve
Rotation or Spinning on its axis
24 hours = 1 day/night
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Click below to view a rotation model. Continue clicking on
the arrow at the bottom of each page of the site to see a
model demonstrating the reason for seasonal changes.
Volcanoes In The Solar System
Click below for information!
Making and Mapping a
Volcano
This excellent
activity from NASA
can be accessed by
clicking Olympus
Mons
Astronomy
for Kids
4th grade classes study...
The Solar System
Star Child
Works Sited Credits
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Galaxy Picture credit: ESO. Observations have been carried out using the MPG/ESO 2.2m
Telescope and the ESO New Technology Telescope (NTT) at the La Silla observatory under
Program-ID No. 164.O-0561
Milky Way Picture Credit:E. L. Wright (UCLA), The COBE Project, DIRBE, NASA via
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Sixe Comparison Pictures http://www.essex1.com/people/speer/model.html
Links to websites are within presentation
McDonald Observatory Resources