Before you even start here is
a list of things you must accomplish:
1. You must participate and complete
the four missions of The Great Solar System Rescue. Completing the
missions will:
- introduce you to many places in the
solar system
- give you some background information
about the terrestrial planets and the gas giants and their moons
from a geologists perspective
- give you some background information
about the weather and atmospheric conditions of places in our solar
system from a meteorologists perspective
- give you some background information
about scientific discoveries made about our solar system historically
- give you some background information
about locations, distances, rotations and orbits of places in our
solar system from an astronomer's point of view
2. You must complete lesson on evaluating
Internet sites in the Media Center with Mr. Tallakson.
3. You must complete the following activities
(some will be done later, as we go through the project):
- A
gravity
activity (data chart) to
help you understand gravity and the relationship between gravity
and mass
- An astronomical
units activity to help you understand distances in our solar
system
- A size of the planets activity (pg.
47 GSSR) to help you understand the size of various planets and
make comparisons between their size and the size of the earth
- A reasons
for the seasons activity to help you understand why earth has
seasons and make comparisons between earth and other places in the
solar system
- A popping
ping pong ball activity (data
chart) to help you understand the difference in the density
of different planets
