WORKSHEETS
Distribute a printable set of vocabulary words related to the sun, moon, and planets.
In this lab, students are asked to solve several problems involving the lunar cycle and the night sky. Materials list,…
Introduce your students to a lab that evaluates a student's ability to identify and describe lunar and solar eclipses,…
Suggest a family activity to parents that includes home projects and vocabulary words to help children understand how…
Students read about the planets and discuss connections between science and math. This printable includes Pluto as a…
Students use the calendar to draw how the moon looks each night.
Students use posterboard, markers, and scissors to make a model of the solar system. Materials list, rubric, worksheets,…
Students make a model of a lunar eclipse and observe the effect of the movement of the Earth on the Moon. Materials…
Students say what they would like to observe using the Hubble Space Telescope.
Suggest a family activity to parents that includes home projects and vocabulary words related to the solar system.
Students play a planet matching game.
Students practice learning the planets' order, starting from the sun.
Students discuss the environment, specifically in the context of controlling or adapting to a habitat. They must decide…
Students read about discoveries made by the Hubble telescope, and answer questions about light, photography, and space.
ACTIVITIES
Students write a hypothesis and design an experiment to test it.
Suggest a family activity to parents that focuses on the sun, moon, and stars, and on the phenomena of day and night.
Students draw pictures to show the position of the sun in the morning and at noon.
Students use a viewer and then illustrate what they saw in the daytime sky.
Students draw objects that they might see in the nighttime sky.
Students make and then connect dots to show star patterns.
To complete the fill-in-the-blank and skill challenge sections in this astronomy printable, students will examine the…
Through these literature-based enrichment activities, students will practice math skills as they learn about the solar…
Using reference materials, students will research what transit means in astronomy and draw the transit of Mercury and…
Correctly define terms related to the motions of Earth, the Sun, and the Moon to solve a word puzzle. This printable…
