The Solar System for a class
The Sun, the Moon, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn on Wikipedia, NASA’s Solar System pages and Space Place for kids, ESA Kids, NASA’s picture of the day and sunrise times.
A ready set for a lesson on the Solar System: Wikipedia on the Sun, the Moon and the planets, NASA’s Solar System pages and its Space Place for younger pupils, ESA’s pages for kids, NASA’s astronomy picture of the day explained by an astronomer and sunrise and sunset times. Pupils need just one link, or the QR code on the board – “QR code” is above the list.
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Wikipedia Solar SystemThe Solar System is the gravitationally bound system of the Sun and the masses that orbit it, most prominently its eight planets, of which Earth is one. The Solar System is an isolated single-star planetary system within the Milky Way Galaxy. The system formed about 4.6 billion years ago when a den… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System | |
Wikipedia SunThe Sun is the star located at the centre of the Solar System. It is a massive sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core, radiating the energy from its surface mainly as visible light and infrared radiation, with 10% at ultraviolet energies. It is the mai… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun | |
Wikipedia MoonThe Moon is the only natural satellite of Earth. It orbits Earth in an elliptical path, at a distance that varies over the year, averaging around 378,000 kilometers (235,000 mi). It completes an orbit in relation to Earth and the Sun (synodically) every 29.5 days. The Moon and Earth are bound by gr… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon | |
Wikipedia MarsMars is the fourth planet from the Sun. It is also known as the "Red Planet", for its orange-red appearance. Mars is a desert-like rocky planet with a tenuous atmosphere that is primarily carbon dioxide. At the average surface level the atmospheric pressure is a few thousandths of Earth's, atmosphe… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars | |
Wikipedia JupiterJupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun, and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass nearly 2.5 times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined and slightly less than one-thousandth the mass of the Sun. The diameter of Jupiter is 11 times that of Earth and a… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter | |
Wikipedia SaturnSaturn is the sixth planet from the Sun, and is the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant, with an average radius of about 9 times that of Earth. It has an eighth of the average density of Earth, but is over 95 times more massive. Even though Saturn is almost a… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn | |
NASA Science Solar System ExplorationThe solar system has one star, eight planets, five dwarf planets, at least 290 moons, more than 1.3 million asteroids, and about 3,900 comets. https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/ | |
spaceplace.nasa.gov Home | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for KidsNASA’s award-winning Space Place website engages upper-elementary-aged children in space and Earth science through interactive games, hands-on activities, fun articles and short videos. With material in both English and Spanish and numerous resources for kids, parents and teachers, Space Place has something for everyone. https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/ | |
esa.int ESA - Space for KidsSpace for Kids! ESA Kids features space news, information, animations and downloads for kids aged between 6 and 12 https://www.esa.int/Kids/en/home | |
Kosmos.info.pl Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) – Kosmos.info.plToday's NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) with an explanation by a professional astronomer, updated daily. https://kosmos.info.pl/en/apod | |
slonce.info.pl Sunrise and sunset today – times, day length, twilightWhat time does the sun rise and set today? Sunrise and sunset times, day length, solar noon and civil, nautical and astronomical twilight. https://slonce.info.pl/en |
