Audience
Educators
Grade Levels
Grades 5-8, Informal Education
Subject
Waves, Light, Solar System and Planets, Sun
Type
Educator Guides, Lesson Plans / Activities
These six hands-on science activities are aligned to Next Generation Science Standards. The activities help students understand the scale distance of the solar system, the way planetary bodies are impacted by celestial objects and how light is a term used to describe visible and invisible waves of electromagnetic energy. Activities include scale models of the Sun, Earth and the solar system, impact craters, spectroscopes and invisible light (infrared and ultraviolet).
Earth and Space Explorers Module (PDF)
This module is part of the NASA Out of School Learning Network set of activities.
Other modules in the series:
Aeronautics
Living and Working in Space
Rockets Rock