GALILEO SSI Education
PLANETARY CURRICULUM MODULE:
NAVIGATING the SOLAR SYSTEM
Eileen V. Ryan, Ph.D.
Planetary Science Institute / NOAO
Written for teachers
Target level: middle school
GOALS: Use facts about the solar system to demonstrate
- GRAPHING
- AREA OF A CIRCLE
- GEOMETRY SKILLS
- ALGEBRA SKILLS
- DISTANCE, RATE, and TIME
- UNITS CONVERSION
- SCIENTIFIC NOTATION
- FORCE
- SIZE SCALES
- DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
This is one of a series of educational modules relating
to the Galileo satellite science goals. The target grade level is
6-9, but activities can be adapted either up or down for use with
different levels. This module consists of an introductory section
which exposes teachers and students to basic concepts in solar system
exploration, a table containing various solar system parameters, and a
series of three activities which use parameters from the table to
demonstrate concepts such as basic physics, graphing, and analyzing and
drawing conclusions from data.
Contents:
This module was written and compiled by Eileen V. Ryan
(NOAO and the Planetary Science Institute, Tucson AZ).
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