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11th grade astronomy projects
Solar System Activity: Scaled Down Size & Distance Model of Our Solar System
Bring the Solar System down to Earth with this activity that scales down the sun, planets, and distances between them! An excellent out-of-the-classroom group activity for your inquisitive students!Watch your students' eyes widen as preconceptions are challenged and misconceptions are swept away.Then watch their eyes light up while they work together to measure distances and hold up planets, fusing math and science together into one unforgettable experience.This activity is not only fun, but i
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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CCSS:
NGSS:
MS-ESS1-2
, MS-ESS1-3
Design a Mars Colony: STEM / STEAM Project Guide
Mars Colony STEM Project GuideDesign a colony on Mars! Take your STEM or STEAM classroom or program to the next level with this in-depth engineering design STEM challenge. Students will apply scientific concepts, math skills, critical thinking, research, and engineering design to plan a long term habitat on Mars. This creative and in-depth project is a great activity for your classroom or afterschool program! Part of a Mars Colony Project Bundle: This product is part of a larger bundle of activi
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in: Mission to Mars Semester STEM Unit + Mars Colony Project!
Star Gazing
This STAR GAZING project is great for students of all ages who love looking towards the night sky. This project involves watercolor painting and drawing and looks lovely hanging on a bulletin board. I use this project as an Early Finisher Project, as a Substitute Lesson or even to go along with a Science lesson studying stars. What's included?-10 page Step-By-Step Directions for how to make this art project-Pictures to go along with each step-Examples of Galaxies-Finished example of the Star
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2nd - 12th
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Mission Mars: Design a Mars Rover STEM Mini-Project
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ STEM Mission: Design and Create a Rover to Explore and Study the Planet MarsMission Objective: Your students will follow the mission directives to design and engineer a manned rover with scientific instruments that can withstand Mar’s environment and protect the explorer during the study of the planet. Students will choose from the 77 clipart parts and instruments, draw new parts, and have the option of cutting out more parts from old magazines to complete their custom rover. Then they w
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6th - 12th
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Astronomy Planet Research Project
Looking for a presentation style project to give your students concerning planets and their moons? This file contains 16 topic choices of planets, moons, dwarf planets, and exoplanets:
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Europa
Saturn
Titan
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto
Eris
Ceres
Gliese 667 Cc
Proxima Centauri b
Makemake
Task: Research and become an expert on a particular planet, moon, or exoplanet. Share your findings with the class through a presentation.
This file includes the directions handout I gi
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Grades:
8th - 12th
Design a Mars Habitat STEM / STEAM Project Guide
Design a habitat on Mars with our STEM project guide! Take your STEM or STEAM classroom or program to the next level with this in-depth engineering design STEM challenge. Students will apply scientific concepts, math skills, critical thinking, research, and engineering design to plan a long term habitat on Mars. This creative and in-depth project is a great activity for your classroom or afterschool program! Watch the video and learn more about this project here. Designing a Mars Colony is a rea
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Grades:
4th - 12th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ESS1-3
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-3
Watercolor Galaxy Campers, Middle/High School Art, Mixed Media Art, Fall/Winter
This beginner galaxy camper project is fabulous for any beginner mixed media art student! This project uses watercolor paint and pen/ink techniques. Designed best for middle and high school grades. Just in time for the fall and winter seasons.This product comes with:PDF and PPT files of project steps and tutorialHandout of tutorial steps for studentsReference sheets of campers, camping items and trees3 student practice sheets (tree drawing practice, camper drawing practice and campsite sketch)Pe
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Grades:
6th - 12th
The Ultimate 2024 Great American Solar Eclipse Pack for Middle and High School
"Mega 2024 Great American Solar Eclipse Pack: A Celestial Extravaganza for Unmatched Learning!"Engage, Explore, and Learn with our Comprehensive Mega Pack!Embark on an unparalleled educational journey with our Mega 2024 Great American Solar Eclipse Pack – the ultimate resource for turning this celestial event into a once-in-a-lifetime learning experience! This comprehensive bundle includes four extraordinary packs, each tailored to specific educational needs, ensuring you have everything at your
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6th - 12th
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Mission To Mars -- PBL Space Exploration and Mars Colony Design
Mission To Mars -- PBL Mars Colony DesignBackground InformationIn Mission To Mars, students propose and design "fully functional" Mars colonies. I designed this project due to the real-world relevance today. Mars exploration is becoming increasingly closer to experiencing human footsteps.This Mars colony design project utilizes various roles and abilities of the students ranging from scientific research to creativity and design. Students are asked to do the following:1. Brainstorm key vocabulary
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Grades:
4th - 12th
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CCSS:
NGSS:
HS-ETS1-2
, HS-ETS1-3
, HS-ETS1-1
Planisphere Lab Activity: A Star Wheel for Constellation Exploration
Inexpensive and ingenious! Planispheres are a unique tool for learning astronomy: a make-it-yourself star map, adjustable for any time of night in any month of the year. They are designed to show the position of prominent constellations in the night sky. It's a low-tech way for Ss to learn the location (and thus give meaning to key vocabulary terms) of the horizon, zenith, meridian, ecliptic and celestial equator on the celestial sphere. This lab includes two types of planispheres: one for stan
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Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education
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NGSS:
HS-ESS1-4
, 5-ESS1-2
, MS-ESS1-1
Also included in: StayGiant Earth Science Bundle: Astronomy (space exploration)
Spacey Astronaut Art Tutorial, Mixed Media, Middle/High School Art
Spacey Astronauts is a favorite among my students. They choose an astronaut as their subject and fill in their backgrounds using a list of various prompts that focus on VARIETY and CONTRAST. This project has it all and gives students opportunities to choose different subjects and mediums.A great introductory project into mixed media- while also making astronomy connections!Designed for middle and high school ages!This Product Comes With:PDF and PPTX versions of project instructions and stepsPDF
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Design a Solar System Project Activity for Astronomy
Design a Solar System - Astronomy or STEM ProjectThis is an awesome resource to use as a summative assessment of your students understanding of planets, orbits, stars, galaxies and more. Your students will have the exciting challenge of creating their very own solar system. This project has detailed guidelines but is open ended enough to release your students creativity in a multitude of ways. They will enjoy the freedom to create and design while feeling confident in the direction they are aske
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8th - 12th
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Ultimate Painting BUNDLE, 10 Acrylic/Watercolor Art Projects. Middle/High School
This painting project BUNDLE is a great way to introduce watercolor and acrylic paints to your students. These projects are simple and designed for middle school and high school grades (5th-12th) and can be completed with beginner, intermediate and advanced skill levels. The projects in this bundle include:Watercolor Glue Resist 7 page PDF of tutorial steps and imagesPDF handout of image steps of studentsTimelapse tutorial video7 PDF printable stencils for students who need design ideas (optiona
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6th - 12th
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Interstellar Movie Assignment/Project
This assignment places students directly into Professor Brand's position in the movie "Interstellar". They are tasked with the goal of finding a habitable planet and deciding who they will bring with them when the times comes to leave Earth. The product is a Google Slide or PowerPoint presentation.Students should watch the movie in class or at home before they are given this assignment. My kids loved this movie and this project! Should take 3 to four days to complete the movie and the presen
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9th - 12th
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Cosmic Calendar
Based on Carl Sagan's "Cosmos", the Cosmic Calendar is a model that compares the 13.8 billion year history of the universe to a single calendar year. In the Cosmic Calendar, January 01 represents the Big Bang, and December 31 represents "now." In this model, the earth and sun appear around the beginning of September. In this activity, students will be able to construct a poster of the Cosmic Calendar. They will compute the Calendar dates for major events in the history of the universe, and they
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11th - 12th
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Seasons and Constellations SURFFDOGGY
(10 pages) Have you ever wondered why we see different constellations during different seasons? This hands-on activity will help students answer that question. Includes all necessary components for a great 3D model, as well as teacher notes and pictures. Students and teachers will love this activity!
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Heavy-Lift Straw or Stomp Rocket STEM Challenge (Forces & Motion, Falcon Heavy)
In response to the success of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launch, this project was created to engage and inspire students with STEM that is literally out of this world! This STEM challenge pack includes the option of conducting a straw rocket engineering design challenge or stomp rocket engineering design challenge. Both options include handouts on Newton's Laws and forces, as well as student worksheets for every step in the design process. Connect with current events with this engaging hands-on chall
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Grades:
4th - 12th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Rocketry STEM Challenges Bundle: Forces & Variables
Digital Interactive Notebook Tour of the Solar System Distance Learning Project
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This incredibly gorgeous 40+page DIGITAL interactive notebook for Google Slides is so much fun! Designed to be a big project for one student (astronomy unit for homeschool) or a broken up into separate group projects for a classroom.
Students will:
• Arrange and label the planets on a solar system map
• Take notes on the Milky Way galaxy
• Label the internal and external structur
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Grades:
5th - 12th
Solar System Project Activity NGSS MS-ESS1-3 ESS1.B Scale, Proportion & Quantity
Your students will be blown away at how different the planets are and how big our solar system is! This NGSS 3-Dimensional 5E is engaging, rigorous and easy prep! The materials are inexpensive and my teacher notes will make classroom management easy so that you have a classroom full of engaged and on-task students!Students first start with the question “When you look at a picture of our solar system with the sun and all the planets it’s not to scale. What does that mean and why aren’t most pictu
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Grades:
6th - 12th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS1-3
Galaxy Research Project Digital Poster
Combine art, literacy, and science with this individualized galaxy project. Students research their own galaxy and present their findings in an artistic way. Template comes with teacher grading form, teacher instructions, student instructions and galaxy list. All pages are fully editable.Please click this link to follow me on TPT: Problems, Experiments, and SolutionsPlease leave a review of this product to earn TPT credit (5 cents of every dollar spent on a product you purchase and review that i
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6th - 12th
Space Vocabulary Foldable - Great for Astronomy Interactive Notebooks
Students will create a Frayer model foldable which will help them understand six space vocabulary words (star, planet, moon, asteroid, meteor, and comet). Frayer Models require students to define the target vocabulary words/concepts and apply this information by generating examples and non-examples for each vocabulary word. This is an excellent way for students to master difficult science concepts. How is this product useful?✔ Helps students master science vocabulary✔ Requires critical thinking
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Grades:
5th - 12th
Also included in: Earth and Space Science Activities - Mega Bundle
OREO COOKIE PHASES OF THE MOON FOOD LAB
A popular lab, with a competitive twist! Educators, your students will have tons of fun learning/reviewing the phases of the moon with this engaging activity. Instead of simply cutting the cream out of each cookie, students will be tasked with a challenge (against their peers) for each of the 8 phases of the moon. I've also included a student version of the slides so that they can insert a photo of each phase they create. Why? Well, we all know that those cookies will not last very long at the e
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Grades:
2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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NGSS:
MS-ESS1-1
Planets Research Project (Astronomy and Solar System)
This project can be used in an Astronomy/Solar System unit. In the project students will select four planets (2 gas giants, 2 terrestrial planets) other than Earth to investigate. Students are then given a detailed list of information to find on their chosen planets including: planet size, weather, composition, surface features, year and day lengths, and when planet was discoveredunique features of the planetthe location of the planet in our solar systemwhether of not the student believes the pl
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Grades:
8th - 11th
Also included in: Planets and the Solar System Teaching Resources Bundle (Astronomy)
Build a Solar Eclipse Pinhole Projector Viewer Project
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Students will follow step-by-step directions create a solar eclipse pinhole projector viewer using either a cereal box or card stock to safely view a solar eclipse or the sun. Included are written step-by-step directions, real step-by-step pictures in a presentation to show how to make each viewer, a teacher lesson plan, background reading comprehension, questions, and rubric.⭐ PERFECT FOR THE SOLAR ECLIPSE 2024!Choose which type (cereal box or card stock version) you'd like your studen
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ESS1-1
Also included in: Seasons, Equinoxes, Solstices, Eclipses, and Tides Growing Bundle
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