Audience
Educators
Grade Levels
Grades K-4, Grades 5-8, Grades 9-12, Higher Education, Informal Education
Subject
Solar System and Planets
Type
Lesson Plans / Activities
Compare scale models of our solar system with a system of exoplanets (planets outside our system). In four feet of space, build a scale model of the TRAPPIST-1 system, a group of Earth-sized, habitable-zone planets around a single star called TRAPPIST-1A. Then, make a scale model of our solar system at the same scale for comparison. Print copies of both scaled systems including fact sheets about each planet in each system.
Next Generation Science Standards: MS-ESS1-2, MS-ESS1-3, HS-ESS1-4