Audience
Educators
Grade Levels
Informal Education
Subject
Space Science
Type
Lesson Plans / Activities, Videos
Help participants understand that there is a lot of space in between planets. Using receipt paper, participants make a scale model of the distances between objects in the solar system. They learn that the distance between planets is vast.
A training video is included, and materials for this activity are also available in Spanish.
This activity is brought to you by a partnership with NASA and the National Informal STEM Education (NISE) Network through NASA’s Science Activation program.