Solar System
By
Upton STLP Students
Ms. Doty's class used non-fiction encyclopedias, fact cards from NASA and Internet sites to research a planet in our Solar System. Second and third graders were paired to design planet posters to share information with other classrooms. They created a fact card bulletin board in the hall showing their research.
STLP students created an interactive
Solar System PowerPoint using Ms. Doty's class' research. They created the PowerPoint using Microsoft Office 97.You can take a voyage through our Solar System Interactive PowerPoint by clicking on this link. After you have explored the galaxy, try our Galaxy Quiz. For a printout of your own copy of the galaxy quiz page, click on this connection:
Galaxy Quiz Page and follow the instructions.
Earth Views From Space
Water Color Earth
Mrs. Seymour's class also studied the Solar System, focusing on the planet Earth. They used non-fiction books including 1000 Facts about the Earth and Earth Our Planet in Space. They especially enjoyed pretending to be an astronaut viewing pictures of the Earth from Space http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/, at the web site with that title. After studying pictures of the real objects from the NASA Space Shuttle Earth Observations Photography database, they used watercolors back in their room to paint their impressions of mountains, deserts, rivers, oceans, hurricanes, fire, a squall line, Florida, the Grand Canyon, and the city of San Antonio. Then they designed a powerpoint presentation, How the Earth Looks from Space, explaining the earth features they had studied. They also enjoyed exploring Kids Space, a treasure trove of information about the universe at
http://www.windows.umich.edu/cgi-bin/tour.cgi?link=/windows3.html&sw=false&sn=0&d=&edu=mid&br=graphic&cd=false&tour=&fr=f . This neat web site is from the University of Michigan. They played Solar Concentration and completed a Seek and Find game.