This Classroom Connectors lesson plan teaches young students that all objects in the sky have properties, locations, and movements that can be described and that may change. Students learn what a planet is, characteristics of the Earth, and the effects of the Sun on the Earth. The site provides goals, objectives, an outline, time required, materials, activities, and closure ideas for the lesson. The ... Full description.

This Classroom Connectors lesson plan teaches young students about cloud types and the kinds of weather they indicate. The site provides goals, objectives, an outline, time required, materials, activities, and closure ideas for the lesson. The Classroom Connectors address content with an activity approach while incorporating themes necessary to raise the activity to a higher cognition level. The major ... Full description.

This Classroom Connectors lesson plan teaches young students that day and night result from the rotation of the Earth. The site provides goals, objectives, an outline, time required, materials, activities, and closure ideas for the lesson. The Classroom Connectors address content with an activity approach while incorporating themes necessary to raise the activity to a higher cognition level. The major ... Full description.

This Classroom Connectors lesson plan teaches young students that our Solar System is composed of many objects which revolve around a star, the Sun. In this lesson students learn about the Earth-Moon-Sun system, satellites, orbits, rotation and revolution. The site provides goals, objectives, an outline, time required, materials, activities, and closure ideas for the lesson. The Classroom Connectors ... Full description.

This interactive game lets younger students practice indentification of planets, nebulae, galaxies, and other astronomical objects. Astronomer Michael Shara of the American Museum of Natural History introduces the feature, which consists of eight images of objects that must be matched with their written descriptions. There is also a link to additional space images at NASA's 'Astronomy Picture of the ... Full description.

This musical game helps younger students learn the 'Long Address', used by astronomers at the American Museum of Natural History. The Long Address locates Earth in the solar system, which is located in the Milky Way, which is one of several thousand galaxies in the Virgo Supercluster, which is itself only a small part of the entire universe. Full description.

In this activity, students make edible models of the planets in our solar system to demonstrate the differences in their size and physical appearance. The site also features a short interactive feature that lets students compare the sizes, colors, and appearances of the planets. Full description.

After an introduction that explains the life cycle of both medium and massive stars, the book offers twelve related activities. Level 1 activities are suitable for primary students and involve ordering, drawing, matching, and word puzzles. The level 2 activities, which start with a four square activity and include doublets, word spirals, matching, and a decision box maze, are suitable for intermediate ... Full description.

Materials presented here provide basic information about objects in space for younger children. A set of links provides access to brief, bulleted facts about our sun, the planets, and other objects in our solar system and in the universe. A dictionary, a brief section on space exploration, and a link to email questions are also provided. Full description.

These activities are designed to stimulate student interest in the study of space science. After covering information on the solar system, students will do a reinforcement activity having to do with the inner and outer planets. Likewise, after covering information on different stars and basic constellations and asterisms (parts of larger constellations), students will do the listed activities to reinforce ... Full description.