Sun, Earth and Moon model

Sun, Earth and Moon model

In this activity, students make a mobile model of the Sun, Earth and Moon system and play a memory game with cards. They learn that the Earth revolves around the Sun and the Moon around the Earth. Students learn that the Sun is a star and some additional...
Build a safe Sun viewer

Build a safe Sun viewer

It is very dangerous to look directly at the Sun, even briefly! Let’s learn how to build a safe Sun viewer using cheap household items. At the end of this activity, you will have built a cheap but effective pinhole camera from a cardboard box to observe the Sun...
Levitating Astronaut

Levitating Astronaut

Let’s build an Astronaut to learn about magnetism and gravity! Students will address topics such as the forces of attraction and repulsion between magnets, and that objects are pulled downwards because of the gravitational attraction between the objects and the...
Know Your Planets

Know Your Planets

Students play a game of printable cards to become familiar with the planets of the Solar System. By playing, they learn that all planets go around the Sun and some properties about these planets. They also learn the name of the planets and their order in the Solar...
Light in a matchbox

Light in a matchbox

By building a homemade spectrometer with simple materials like a CD and a matchbox, you can discover the visible light spectrum observing it quickly and easily and discovering the colors that compose it. Resource Link Access the complete activity resource Activity...