Grades 5-8. Consists of 6 activities. Inspire and motivate students to wonder about the solar system. This investigation begins with a cryptic binary "message from space."
As students decode the message, they are taken on a journey that starts in our solar system and ends in deep space. Along the way they learn some basic cosmology, and they model stellar phenomena.
Students analyze the light from different stars, construct their own classroom models of the solar system, and design their own distant planetary systems.
/!\ WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD - Small parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
