Educational Guides & Handouts
 

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Before your Visit:

Prepare your class for your field trip by taking our pre-visit quiz.

• Quiz (pdf)
• Key (pdf)

During your Visit:

• K-2 Exhibits Scavenger Hunt (pdf)
• K-2 Exhibits Scavenger Hunt #2 (pdf)
• Grades 3+ Exhibits Scavenger Hunt (pdf)
• Key (pdf)

After your Visit:

• "What Am I" is a PowerPoint-based introductory activity centered around the 6th grade astronomy core curriculum.
• "What Am I" activity (pdf)
• "What Am I" activity (PowerPoint)
• "What Am I" key (pdf)

Build your own star wheel planisphere

• Cover
• Insert

Download our Solar System Fact Sheet 

6th Grade Core Activities (pre- or post- visit)

Core 1 - Moon Phases

• Moon Activity Kinesthetic Lunar Rotation/Revolution (pdf)
• Moon Activity Modeling Moon Phases (pdf)  

Core 2 - Seasons

• Space Science Institute resources for educators
• Seasons quiz -- a Powerpoint presentation.

Core 3 - Solar System

• Solar System 1 (pdf)
• Solar System 2 (pdf)
• Solar System 3 (pdf)
• Solar System 5 (pdf)
• Solar System 6 (PowerPoint)
   

Core 4 - Universe & Distance/Scale

• How much is a million? Billion? (pdf)
• How much is a million? Billion? (PowerPoint)
• Big & Small / Far & Near (pdf)
• Big & Small / Far & Near (PowerPoint)
• Meter Stick Solar System...and Beyond! (pdf)
• Size & Scale Distance Activity (pdf)
• How Big? How Far? Activity (pdf)
• How Big? How Far? Instructions (pdf)

General - Size scale of planets and stars, images

1. Ganymede, Moon and dwarf planets (jpg)
2. Inner planets and dwarf planets (jpg)
3. Outer planets and inner planets (jpg)
4. Sun and major planets (jpg)
5. Sun and other well-known smaller stars (jpg)
6. Sun and other well-known larger stars (jpg)
7. Really, really big stars (jpg)

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