 Unit 7: Astronomy and Space ExplorationActivity 4: Scale Model of the Solar System (SI GLEs: 13, 14, 15, 19, 33; ESS GLEs: 38, 42)
Students create a distance and size scale model of the solar system.
Teacher may use United Streaming and show the video clip of using scale models.
http://www.unitedstreaming.com Earth Science: The Universe Using models to illustrate the Scale of Space(3:44)
These are excellent websites for the solar system, but not necessary have any thing to do with scale modeling. Unit 7: Activity 4 Wow! A super site covering our solar system, the only irritation is the presence of several advertisements and pop-ups. http://www.solarviews.com/ss.html Nine planets is a vast source of information and pictures of everything in our solar system. Excellent linked index allows for quick and intuitive site navigation. Probably the best of these sites is of course from NASA, (go figure) and one of their many superb efforts is below. Another very cool virtual solar system from another reliable source: National Geographic. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/solarsystem/ |