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This is NASA’s kid-friendly solar system website
to promote students to explore their universe and beyond. Interactive games and
videos are used to help students better understand the solar system.
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Kid astronomy is a good resource for kids to
become acquainted with each of the planets and their moons. Additionally,
videos and demonstrations help the students to get a better idea of how the
solar system works.
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This website offers kids a wide range of
information regarding the planets, asteroids, and other pertinent space
information. My favorite thing about this website is the solar system song that
names the planets (in order from the sun) and shares important information
about the planets.
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This website from the American Museum of Natural
History provides students with hands-on learning about the solar system. This
website also proves an English and Language Arts connection to the solar
system.
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On this website there are a variety of different
instructional strategies used to teach children about the solar system.
Ten Appropriate Children's Books:
Non-Fiction
1.
The Long
View into Space by Semour Simon – An illustrated discussion of the planets
and bodies such as moons, comets, and meteoroids found in our solar system.
Also outlines the relationship the solar system has with the galaxies.
2.
Close
Encounters: Exploring the Universe with the Hubble Space Telescope by
Elaine Scott – Describes what scientists have been able to deduce about the
nature of our solar system and the universe based on data collected by the
Hubble telescope.
3.
The Moon by
Seymour Siman – A basic introduction to Earth's closest neighbor, its
composition, and man's missions to it. Illustrated with black and white
photographs of the moon taken in space
4.
The Day We
Saw the Sun Come Up by Alice E. Goudey – A little girl and boy observe and
learn about the movements of the sun, moon, and shadows throughout the day and
part of the night.
5.
One Giant
Leap – Commemorating the 40th anniversary of man's first walk on the moon,
this book is a tribute that transports readers to the stars, where they will
experience the moon landing just as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin did.
Fiction
6.
And if the
Moon Could Talk by Kate Banks – As a little girl goes to bed, the moon
looks down at nature going to bed as well.
7.
Why the
Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky: An African Folktale – Sun invites Water
to his home, but Water has so many people that Sun and Moon must leave their
house to fit them all.
8.
The Moon
Over Star by Dianna Aston – On her family’s farm in the town of Star,
eight-year-old Mae eagerly follows the progress of the 1969 Apollo 11 flight
and moon landing and dreams that she might one day be an astronaut, too.
9.
Moonsong
Lullaby by Jamake Highwater – As the moon moves across the sky, it observes
the activities of an Indian camp and of the natural phenomena surrounding it.
10. Moons Cloud Blankey by Rose Ann St.
Romain – In this retelling of a Native American tale, the Moon weaves a blanket
of clouds around a mother and her children who are freezing atop a cypress
tree, having sought shelter from a flood.
Related Applications: Moon/Solar System
Related Applications: Moon/Solar System
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Moon contains a myriad of data concerning the
current moon phase when you pull up the app.
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Solar System Explorer allows the user to explore
the different planets and discover pertinent information about each.
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Solar Walk is an award winning application that
informs users about the solar system through the use of various media.
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