Solar System
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* Check Today's sunspot count

* Observe Sunspots with a Telescope
1. Observe the Sun
2. Observe Sunspots over time

* Analyze Sunspot Changes
1. Put yourself in Galileo's shoes 
2. Make a Flipbook of Galileo's Drawings 
3. Make a flipbook of your own observations 

* Measure Sunspots
1. Estimate the size of sunspots 
2. Calculate the size of sunspots

* Investigate the Solar Cycle
1. Yearly sunspot counts 
2. Predict sunspot activity

* Compare Climate and Sunspot
1. Investigate weather patterns 
2. Use tree rings to date an event 
3. Connect tree rings and sunspots

* Explore the Solar Surface
1. Observe the Sun's Surface 
2. Label the Solar Features

* Go on a Solar Webquest

* Hot Information- The Sun

Distance
1. The Head to Plu-Toe Solar System Model 
2. The personal Solar System model 
3. The Solar System scaled to your school 
4.  The Stepping Stone Solar System

Gravity 
1. Model the weight of a can of soda on other planets

Atmospheres 
1. Model the atmospheres of Venus, Earth

* Compare Planetary Weather Systems
1. Weather Factors- Venus, Earth, and Mars 
2. Connections between Factors- Temperature, Humidity, Pressure 
3. Planetary Weather Systems- Venus, Earth,  and Mars 
4. Composition of Atmospheres- Venus, 
    Earth, and Mars 
5. Atmospheric Models- Venus, Earth, and Mars

* Why is the Sky Blue?
1. Scattering Light

* Hot Information- The Solar System

* Hot Information- Planetary Weather
 
 

* Investigate Cosmic recycling 
1. Cosmic Recycling
2. StarPower Card Game
3. Survey the Stars
4. The Drake Equation

* Discover Black Holes
1. Compare Black Holes to familiar objects 
2. Model a Black Hole
3. Fly into a Quasar 
4. Use a lens to bend light 
5. Model the accretion disk spin 
6. Model  gravity's victory

* Hot Information-Stars

* Hot Information- Black holes and Quasars
 
 

* Make a Spectroscope (K-2)
1. Make rainbow glasses

* Make a spectroscope (3-8)
1. Make a shoe box spectroscope

* Use invisible light
1. Behavior of Invisible light 
2. Reflecting infrared light

* Explore the Doppler effect
1. See Sound Waves 
2. Hear the Doppler Effect

* Hot Information- Light