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A Scavenger Hunt in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has seen many kinds of...
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Ada’s Adventures in Space – What Happened Next?
This activity blends scientific vocabulary, collaboration, creativity and artistic skills....
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The Universe
Author: Kathy Gustavson with permission from the Education Team for the Sloan...
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Introduction to Solar Eclipses (Grades 5-8)
In this project, students will be completing activities to learn...
7 Enrolled -
Fly Me to the Moons: Middle School
Introduce students to scale models with this lesson plan. Students...
13 Enrolled
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A Scavenger Hunt in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has seen many kinds of objects in the sky: stars, galaxies, quasars, asteroids, comets and meteors. In this scavenger hunt, you will look for a list of these different types...
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Gloves and Gadgets K-2
This activity can be done with any items you have at home or in the classroom. The goal is to allow the students to role-play how astronauts manipulate their hands and fingers in space, outside...
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Water in Space (K-2)
Water is a wonderful liquid and so important to our world! Can you name the different ways we need water? We drink it, we cook with it, we use it for washing ourselves and our...
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What Should We Wear?
Students take their knowledge on how animals keep warm.
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Ada’s Adventures in Space – What Happened Next?
This activity blends scientific vocabulary, collaboration, creativity and artistic skills. Some students will take part in a performance of the Ada story “Robotic Telescopes: How to find cool stuff in space”. The activity then invites...
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Solar Eclipses (K-2)
In this lesson, students will learn about solar eclipses and participate in a fun activity to build eclipse glasses (also known as solar viewers) that will allow them to directly view solar eclipses.
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Galaxies
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has found more than 8 million galaxies so far.
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Types of Stars
When astronomers look through their telescopes, they see billions of stars. How do they make sense of all of them?
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Searching Asteroids (HS & University)
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey or SDSS is a major multi-spectral imaging and spectroscopic redshift survey using a dedicated 2.5-m wide-angle optical telescope at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, United States. The project was...
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The Universe
Author: Kathy Gustavson with permission from the Education Team for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Age Level: High School (14+), University
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Introduction to Solar Eclipses (Grades 5-8)
In this project, students will be completing activities to learn more about the phenomenon of solar eclipses.
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Fly Me to the Moons: Middle School
Introduce students to scale models with this lesson plan. Students engage in different model perspectives and finally focus on making a model of one of our solar system's moons with features that are to scale.