Unit 7:  Astronomy and Space Exploration

Activity 4:  Scale Model of the Solar System (SI GLEs:  13, 14, 15, 19, 33; ESS GLEs:  38, 42)

CC:  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.

Unitedstreaming Videos:

http://www.unitedstreaming.com

Earth Science:  The Universe

Using models to illustrate the Scale of Space(3:44)

Additional websites:

The Solar System

http://www.solarviews.com/eng/solarsys.htm

Nine Planets

http://www.nineplanets.org/

NASA Solar System Simulator

http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/

National Geographic - Virtual Solar System

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/solarsystem/