Audience
Educators
Grade Levels
Grades K-4, Grades 5-8
Subject
Space Science, Technology, Solar System and Planets, Models
Type
Lesson Plans / Activities, Videos
Students construct a scale model of the solar system using beads and string. Students will observe the relative distances of the planets, asteroid belt, and dwarf planet Pluto from one another and from the Sun; and gain a better understanding of the vast distances between planets in the outer solar system compared with those in the inner solar system.
Suggested Scaffolding
This lesson was written for 3rd grade scholars but, can be extended for 4th and 5th grade scholars as well. Where 3rd graders will identify 4th and 5th graders will analyze previously identified information. Fifth graders will take it a step further and compare previously identified data.
Modeling Science Solar System Bead Activity Guide
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