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Students will be able to describe the components of the Solar System, including planets, dwarf planets, comets, asteroids, and the sun, and understand their relationship and organization within the system.

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By the end of the lesson, students will understand how the planets orbit the sun and how this affects phenomena such as day and night, as well as seasons on Earth.

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What components make up the Solar System, and how are they organized?

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Teacher-led presentation on the structure of the Solar System, using a digital slideshow.

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Our solar system - Download as a PDF or view online for free

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Students participate in a collaborative Padlet activity to categorize different celestial bodies found within the Solar System.

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Worksheet on identifying planets and their properties for students to complete individually.

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Online simulation games for extended learning on solar system exploration and planet puzzle activities for remediation.

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About This Game

In this game you can explore almost any moon or planet of our solar system and visit remarkable nearby stars and see their location in the Milky Way. But you can also change existing bodies or add new ones and make a solar system of your own. The simulation will then act as a gravity and physics sandbox and recalculate orbits in line with Newton's laws.

This is the desktop version of the mobile game "Solar System Simulator", which on mobile has so far accumulated about 800.000 downloads. This desktop version offers higher quality texture and height maps and smoother gameplay. More features will be added to the game.

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Students share findings and discuss the realignment of planets in today's understanding of the Solar System.

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Ongoing observations and quizzes during the lesson to gauge understanding.

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End-of-unit test on the structure and components of the Solar System.

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Students form groups to summarize what they learnt about the Solar System's structure and discuss the implications of space exploration on our understanding of it.

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Prepare a presentation on a chosen celestial body within the Solar System, to be shared on Padlet for class discussion.

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Read an article on the latest solar system explorations and findings.

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Could life be found in frozen sea spray from moons orbiting Saturn or Jupiter? New research finds that life can be detected in a single ice grain containing one bacterial cell or portions of a cell. ...

How much time do planets have to form from a swirling disk of gas and dust around a star? A new study gives scientists a better idea of how our own solar system came to ...

The period that liquid water was present on the surface of Mars may have been shorter than previously thought. Channel landforms called gullies, previously thought to be formed exclusively by liquid ...

Sand ripples are symmetrical. Yet wind -- which causes them -- is very much not. Furthermore, sand ripples can be found on Mars and on Earth. They would be even more fascinating if the same effect ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has directly measured charged oxygen and hydrogen molecules from the atmosphere of one of Jupiter's largest moons, Europa. These observations provide key constraints ...

Geologists determined the original orientation of many of the Mars bedrock samples collected by the Perseverance rover. The findings can give scientists clues to the conditions in which the rocks ...

Astrobiologists have devised a novel way to determine ocean temperatures of distant worlds based on the thickness of their ice shells, effectively conducting oceanography from ...

Organic materials discovered on Mars may have originated from atmospheric formaldehyde, according to new research, marking a step forward in our understanding of the possibility of past life on the ...

Scientists suspect Mars once had long-lived rivers, lakes and streams. Today, water on Mars is found in ice at the poles and trapped below the Martian surface. Researchers now reveal that Mars also ...

A new computer model mimics Moon dust so well that it could lead to smoother and safer Lunar robot ...

Mars was once a wet world. The geological record of the Red Planet shows evidence for water flowing on the surface -- from river deltas to valleys carved by massive flash floods. But a new study ...

A new paradigm is taking shape in the space industry as the countries and entities accessing space continue to grow and diversify. This dynamic landscape creates both competition and potential for ...

A team found evidence for hydrothermal or metamorphic activity within the icy dwarf planets Eris and Makemake, located in the Kuiper Belt. Methane detected on their surfaces has the tell-tale signs ...

A geologist has revealed intriguing insights into the volcanic activity on Mars. He proposes that Mars has significantly more diverse volcanism than previously realized, driven by an early form of ...

Saturn's moon Mimas harbors a global ocean beneath its icy shell, discovered through analysis of its orbit by Cassini spacecraft data. This ocean formed just 5-15 million years ago, making Mimas ...

China's Chang'e-5, the first lunar sample return mission since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, delivered 1.73 kilograms of regolith from the Oceanus Procellarum, a plane named for ...

Astronomers have shown new atmospheric detail in a set of 15 exoplanets similar to Neptune. While none could support humanity, a better understanding of their behavior might help us to understand why ...

Meteorites are fragments of asteroids which find their way to Earth as shooting stars and provide information on the origins of our solar system. A team of researchers has examined the so-called ...

TOI-1136, a dwarf star located more than 270 light years from Earth, is host to six confirmed exoplanets and a seventh as yet unconfirmed candidate. The system has provided a rich source of ...

New research shows that atmospheric pressure fluctuations that pull gases up from underground could be responsible for releasing subsurface methane into Mars' atmosphere; knowing when and where ...

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Solar System Planets. Astronomy articles on the eight planets, plus the two dwarf planets, Pluto and Eris. Great pictures of everything in the solar system. Updated daily.