Audience
Educators
Grade Levels
Grades 5-8, Grades 9-12
Subject
Mathematics, Space Science, Fractions and Decimals, Geometry, Problem Solving, Solar System and Planets
Type
Lesson Plans / Activities
In this section of the Year of the Solar System guide, the nine sets of problems call for students to use proportions, unit multipliers, scientific notation, and geometry to determine travel times to the planets and calculate distances and sizes of planets. Students also calculate scaled models of planets.
Scale of the Solar System [671KB PDF file]
This document is part of the Year of the Solar System — Real-World Math guide.