Exploring Our Solar System

Task 1:  Explore the following website to learn general information about our solar system.

Our Solar System:

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/

 

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/index.shtml

 

Task 2:  In our Solar System Show this February, you will portray an element of the solar system or an astronaut.  You will choose music to make your entrance, create your costume at home, research your heavenly body, take notes, and write a first-person narrative script as that heavenly body. 

Below, you will find several links to websites for the heavenly bodies featured in our show this year.  Find your topic, read, and begin to take notes on your heavenly body.  3....2....1...Blast off!

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Sun:

 

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/sun/  (See all of the links across the page to other information.)

 

http://www.kidsastronomy.com/our_sun.htm

 

http://www.planetsforkids.org/star-sun.html

 

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Sun

 

http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/space/solar-system/sun-article/

 

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/space/sun.html

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Mercury:

 

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/mercury/  (See all of the links across the page to other information.)

 

http://www.kidsastronomy.com/mercury.htm

 

http://www.planetsforkids.org/planet-mercury.html

 

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Mercury

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 Venus:

 

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/venus/ (See all of the links across the page to other information.)

 

http://www.kidsastronomy.com/venus.htm

 

http://www.planetsforkids.org/planet-venus.html

 

http://www.planetsforkids.org/page.php?seo=what_color_is_venus

 

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Venus

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Earth:

 

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/  (See all of the links across the page to other information.)

 

http://www.kidsastronomy.com/earth.htm

 

http://www.planetsforkids.org/planet-earth.html

 

http://www.planetsforkids.org/page.php?seo=why_is_the_earth_round

 

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Earth

 

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Moon:

 

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/moon/index.shtml  (See all of the links across the page to other information.)

 

http://www.planetsforkids.org/moon-moon.html

 

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Moon

 

http://kids.nineplanets.org/moon.htm

 

http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level1/moon.html

 

http://www.space.com/55-earths-moon-formation-composition-and-orbit.html

 

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Mars:

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/mars/  (See all of the links across the page to other information.)

 

 http://www.kidsastronomy.com/mars.htm

 

http://www.planetsforkids.org/planet-mars.html

 

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Mars

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Jupiter:

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/jupiter/  (See all of the links across the page to other information.)

 

 http://www.kidsastronomy.com/jupiter.htm

 

http://www.planetsforkids.org/planet-jupiter.html

 

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Jupiter

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Saturn:

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/saturn/  (See all of the links across the page to other information.)

 

http://www.kidsastronomy.com/saturn.htm

 

http://www.planetsforkids.org/planet-saturn.html

 

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Saturn

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Uranus:

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/uranus/  (See all of the links across the page to other information.)

 

http://www.kidsastronomy.com/uranus.htm

 

http://www.planetsforkids.org/planet-uranus.html

 

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Uranus

 

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Neptune:

 

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/neptune/  (See all of the links across the page to other information.)

 

http://www.kidsastronomy.com/neptune.htm

 

http://www.planetsforkids.org/planet-neptune.html

 

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Neptune

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Pluto:

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/pluto/ (See all of the links across the page to other information.)

 

http://www.kidsastronomy.com/pluto.htm

 

http://www.planetsforkids.org/planet-pluto.html

 

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Dwarf  (This is general information on dwarf planets.)

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Halley’s Comet:

http://www.planetsforkids.org/page.php?seo=what_is_a_comet

 

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Comets

 

http://www.tenfactsabout.co.uk/0013halleyscomet.htm

 

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/space/comets.html

 

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/comets/index.shtml

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Dr. Sally Ride

http://www.ducksters.com/biography/women_leaders/sally_ride.php

 

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/nasa-knows/who-was-sally-ride-k4.html

http://www.famousscientists.org/sally-ride/

 

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Neil Armstrong

http://www.ducksters.com/biography/explorers/neil_armstrong.php

 

http://mrnussbaum.com/pioneers/neil_armstrong/

 

https://kidskonnect.com/people/neil-armstrong/

 

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Dr. Mae Jemison

http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ho-Jo/Jemison-Mae.html

 

https://ptaourchildren.org/7-fun-facts-dr-mae-jemison/