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Players learn that they can determine a star's relative temperature by its color. Students will collect groups of stars to earn points and develop problem-solving skills, as they determine how to gain the most points.

Grade 3 activities: Line 'Em Up! Three levels of play

Activities and teaching materials in Flash,PowerPoints, Docs,or PDF

Use this site to practice locating explicit information in passages about the sun and planets in our solar system.

You are in a spaceship leaving Earth to explore the Universe! How fast do you want to travel? Enter the rate of travel and see how long it will take to visit different places!

Fascinating virtual solar system explorer and world builder. Teaching resources available at the bottom of this page: http://www.solarsystem.org.uk/planet10/

Another great interactive for students with good reading skills and ability to follow directions. Starts with an arcade game but the remainder is content rich.

Great instructional game that teaches and quizzes students on the planets, moon, earth's rotation, and orbit. Students must earn points to play a game. Good independent activity.

Tour the solar system in this animated adventure

Explain and demonstrate the sorting activity to the class. Each student will complete the activity by dragging and placing the planets into the appropriate Super Grouper. Each student will print his/her work

Webquest for third grade. One or two links do not work.

Enchanted Learning Site for the solar system, planets, and more.

Every question you answer correctly will boost your rocket a little further toward its destination--leaving the Earth's atmosphere. Click the button that you think holds the correct answer, or click a 'Life Line' button for helpful clues. 'Open a Link' will take you to a web page that has information about the question, and 'What have others answered?' will show you the percentage of people that have previously chosen each answer.

Fill in all the empty cells by dragging and dropping the planets Every row,column,and 3x3 box with orange borders should contain all nine planets. No planet should appear more than once in a row, column, or box.

Use these numbers for the observing site Lat 44°47'17" Long 73°9'11"

Caculate your age on other planets

Use this calculator to figure out your weight on the other planets

Interesting comparison of EXTREME weather on other planets. Could be adapted for Clicker5

Learn about the solar system with this trading card game

Informative website about the planets with audio and symbol support.

The SunTracker The SunTracker is a program that lets you see where the Sun is in the sky at any time of day, anywhere in the world. Just click on a date, choose a place and click on the pink button. If you want to see the movement slower just change the speed. For example, you might want to see what the North Pole in January looks like (very dark). Or you could see Liverpool, Britain and Sydney, Australia on the same day to compare how much sunlight we all receive

In this interactive online activity, students investigate how the gravitational force of a large solar system body, such as Jupiter, can affect the path of a smaller body, such as a comet. They will launch a comet to learn how gravity can change its path. They also learn how changing the speed, the angle of approach, or the masses of large and small bodies affects the force of gravity on a comet. Students are challenged to use this knowledge to crash their own comet into Jupiter or make their comet fly past the planet without colliding with it

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10 activities for astronomy ...useful for science fair