This interactive gives you a chance to view the Moon from an unusual place - standing on the ground in the northern hemisphere, looking south - and, simultaneously, from an unusual place - in space, far above the North Pole of the Earth.
This resource is an activity in which the student will construct a pinhole projector using a cardboard box.
In this activity, students will investigate how the tilt of Earth's axis determines the cycle of seasons.
The students will discuss, define, and demonstrate the Earth's rotation and revolution around the sun. The students work as a whole class and in small groups to determine Minnesota's seasons in relationship to its revolution around the sun. Each group will write a paragraph explaining their reasoning (prediction). After whole group discussion, each student will reflect on his or her prediction (correct or incorrect and why).
Students will model the seasons by creating thier own Earth globes.
Students use paper plates to construct a device which will allow them to determine the time the moon rises, transits, and sets and the way that these are related to the rising, transit, and setting of the sun. The moon finder will give students a good idea of when to look and in which direction to see the moon in its respective phases.
Students are faced with a challenge to determine the truth about the Moon's influence on Earth. They think like a scientist, with reasoning skills and a healthy amount of skeptism, to sort puzzle pieces containing statements about the Moon into two images. The "Far-out Far Side" has incorrect statements about the Moon (urban myths), and "True-Blue Blue Moon" has true facts about the Moon's influence on Earth and life.
With this interactive, 3D simulation of the total eclipse on August 21, 2017 students can see a view of the eclipse from anywhere on the planet.
This is a lesson about the solar wind, Earth's magnetosphere, and the Moon. Participants will work in groups of two or three to build a model of the Sun-Earth-Moon system. They will use the model to demonstrate that the Earth is protected from particles streaming out of the Sun, called the solar wind, by a magnetic shield called the magnetosphere, and that the Moon is periodically protected from these particles as it moves in its orbit around the Earth. Participants will also learn that the NASA ARTEMIS mission is a pair of satellites orbiting the Moon that measure the intensity of solar particles streaming from the Sun.
Students discover that other planets have day and night cycles and then imagine how a longer of shorter cycle might impact them.
Students tour the Solar System. They examine and define its various components"”the Sun, planets, moons, comets, asteroids, dwarf planets, and Kuiper Belt Objects. They recognize that the Solar System is the family of the Sun, an average star, and other stars have families of their own. Taking a close look at the planets they find that characteristics like size, location, composition, and presence of rings and moons, reveal two major categories of planets"”terrestrial (Earth-like) and Jovian (Jupiter-like).
Students explore the interaction of lunar orbital period, planetary rotation period, and rotational axis to map the phases of Pluto's moon, Charon.
In this lesson, students will create and use a model of an Earth-Moon-Sun model system to observe and describe the phases of the Moon.
This interactive helps students practice ordering the planets.
In this activity, students investigate the important influences on tides.
In this lesson, students complete a series of activities to better understand how the relative motion and position of the sun, Earth, and moon affect the seasons.
This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 6th Grade Science.
This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 6th Grade Science.
This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team and is aligned to the NC Standards for 6th Grade Science.
In this video, students learn about the causes of day and night. The resource illustrates the idea that as the Earth rotates, light from the sun hits different parts, giving us day and night. During its orbit, the Earth’s tilt on its axis also causes the two hemispheres to be different distances from the sun, and that gives us seasons.