Lecture Tool Kit for The Solar System

UNIT 1: INTRODUCTION
1.1 Why Study the Solar System?
1.2 Why Have a Toolkit?
1.3 The Scientific Method/Process
Activity 1.1: Visualizing the Solar System

UNIT 2: LOOKING UP AND THINKING ABOUT WHAT YOU SEE
2.1 The View from Earth
2.2 The View from Space
2.3 Observations, Patterns, Interpretations, and Explanations
Activity 2.1: Why Is the Sky Blue?
Activity 2.2: Patterns at Night
Activity 2.3: The North Star
Activity 2.4: What Have We Learned?

UNIT 3: FORMATION OF THE UNIVERSE AND THE SOLAR SYSTEM
3.1 Our Place in the Universe
3.2 Where Did It All Come From?
Activity 3.1: Scale of the Universe Analogy
Activity 3.2: Universe Timeline

UNIT 4: THE SUN
4.1 Sun Properties
4.2 Solar Eclipses
Activity 4.1: Sun–Earth Size Comparison
Activity 4.2: Rotation of the Sun
Activity 4.3: Sun Tweets

UNIT 5: EARTH AND THE MOON
5.1 Earth
5.2 The Moon
Activity 5.1: What Causes Seasons?
Activity 5.2: Earth–Moon Distance
Activity 5.3: Phases of the Moon
Activity 5.4: What Causes a Lunar Eclipse?
Activity 5.5: Moon Review

UNIT 6: THE OTHER TERRESTRIAL PLANETS
6.1 Mercury
6.2 Venus
6.3 Mars
Activity 6.1: Planet Names
Activity 6.2: Exploring the Terrestrial Planets
Activity 6.3: A Mars Mission
Activity 6.4: Terrestrial Crossword Puzzle

UNIT 7: THE JOVIAN PLANETS
7.1 Jupiter and Its Moons
7.2 Saturn and Its Moons
7.3 Uranus and Neptune
Activity 7.1: Planet Names
Activity 7.2: Missions to Jovian Planets
Activity 7.3: Your Weight on the Planets
Activity7.4: Jovian Crossword Puzzle

UNIT 8: DWARF PLANETS, ASTEROIDS AND COMETS
8.1 What Happened to Pluto?
8.2 Kuiper Belt Objects
8.3 Comets and Asteroids
Activity 8.1: Pluto Controversy
Activity 8.2: New Horizons Hype
Activity 8.3: Meteors versus Meteorites
Activity 8.4: Earth Impact!

UNIT 9: OTHER SOLAR SYSTEMS AND LIFE
9.1 The Search for Other Solar Systems
9.2 Life Elsewhere
Activity 9.1: Earth-like Planets
Activity 9.2: Life on Mars?
Activity 9.3: Alien Life Found!

UNIT 10: CONNECTING DISCIPLINES
10.1 The Wonder of Space
10.2 Space as Inspiration
Activity 10.1: Exploration Poem
Activity 10.2 A View of Earth
Activity 10.3 Be Inspired