GALILEO SSI Education
PLANETARY CURRICULUM MODULE:
PLANETS AND SATELLITES
Cynthia Phillips
University of Arizona / NASA Spacegrant
Written for teachers
Target level: middle school
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GOALS: USE FACTS ABOUT THE SOLAR SYSTEM TO DEMONSTRATE
- GRAPHING
- PERCENTS
- DECIMALS
- RATIOS
- SCIENTIFIC NOTATION
- DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
This is the first in a planned 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 introductary section
which exposes teachers and students to basic concepts in solar system
exploration, a table containing various solar system parameters, and a
series of four activities which use parameters from the table to
demonstrate concepts such as graphing, ratios, and analyzing and
drawing conclusions from data. The activities are mostly independent,
but later ones do refer to results from earlier exercises, so it is
recommended that they be done in order.
Contents:
This module was written by Cynthia Phillips, Dept. of Planetary
Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ, and funded in part by the
NASA Spacegrant program.
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