Fly Me to the Moons -- Middle School
Topic outline
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Written By: Frances Dellutri, Jr. High/Intermediate Level EIS Education Team, October 2015
EIS Topic: Art, Astronomy
Grade (Age) Level: Grades 5-8 (Ages 10-13)Key Topics Associated With Standards:
Scale Properties, Astronomy, Solar System Models, Proportion, Quantity, Interpreting Data, Gravity, Patterns, Math
US Standards: NGSS:
MS-ESS1-3 http://www.nextgenscience.org/dci-arrangement/ms-ess1-earths-place-universe
Index of Course Activities:
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Students gather data on the moons of the solar system and choose the moon they would like to model. The particular moon's characteristics are recorded and organized for use in their 3-D model in Activity 6. There are several links to consider watching to introduce this topic and more resources can be found in the folder below.
What Makes the Moon so fascinating?:
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#tbm=vid&q=what+makes+a+moon
Solar System's 10 Most Incredible Moons.: