Earth’s Place in Space – Mobile Museum
Overview
Hop and dance your way through the solar system, ending on Earth. Explore how what’s up in the sky affects what’s living on the Earth.
Possible Activities (at the educators discretion)
- When you look up what do you see?
- Review of order of planets/ celestial bodies in our solar system
- what is a solar system
- mnemonic device
- Vocabulary word: GRAVITY
- Gravity Well activity
- How does our solar system effect life on Earth (Daytime -vs- Nighttime)
- Vocabulary words: crepuscular, diurnal, nocturnal
- touchables to accompany and reinforce “types” of animals
Standards
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Details
- Live Animals: No
- Duration: 1 hour
- Minimum number of students: 10
- Maximum number of students: 30 per session at your school/organization
- Intended Grade Level: K-2
- Location: at your site
Discovery Tours
- Dino Descendants (Birds): PreK-K
- Home Sweet Habitat: PreK-K
- SENSE-ational Animals: PreK-1st
- Environments & Survival: K-4
- Exploring Extinction: Grades 1-2
- Cycle of Life: Grades 1-3
- Stones & Bones: Grades 4-8
- Delaware & Beyond: All Ages
- Self-Guided: All Ages
Mobile Museum Outreaches
- How to Museum: All Ages
- Dinos, Dinos, Dinos: PreK-K, 1-2, 3-5
- Amazing Animal Adaptations: PreK-K
- Buggin’ Out: PreK-K
- Looking Out My Backdoor: PreK-K
- Forces in Motion: PreK-1
- Earth’s Place in Space: K-2
- How It’s Made: 1-2
- Trait-astic!: 1-3
- Most Extreme Animals: 5-6
- Motions of the Ocean: K-2
- Pollinators Party: PreK-1