(#41) Planets and Stars
TOPS accomplishes a near miracle - the study of our night sky in the daytime classroom. Fashioning clever astronomical models from straws and cereal boxes, your students will accurately track the sun and stars across the classroom ceiling. They'll watch constellations rise and set on a water horizon in a baby-food jar. They'll pace off astonishing scale distances between our "tennis ball" sun and its "pepper and pebble" planets. They'll map the Big Dipper with pinheads in 3-dimensional space, and model the Milky Way in wisps of cotton. A logarithmic time line holds all models in perspective, stretching young minds (and your own) to the limits of the universe.
(#41) PLANETS AND STARS is part of our Self-Directing Activity Page Series. It is an 80 page soft-bound book organized into three main parts:
PREPARATION AND SUPPORT
* A TOPS Teaching Model * Getting Ready * Gathering Materials *
Sequencing Activities * Long Range Objectives * Review / Test Questions
TEACHING NOTES
(20 lessons) * Landmarks * Pointer Box * Sun Declinations * Follow that
Star * Earth in a Jar * Ocean in a Jar * Dipper Box * Polar Graph *
Apparent Size * Lots-o-Dots * Light Lightning * Star Travel * Our Solar
System * Sky Sphere * The Zodiac * Star Search * Proportional Planets *
Elbow Room * The Wanderers * Our Milky Way
REPRODUCIBLE LINE MASTERS
* 20 student activity sheets * landmarks maps * earth circle * concept
lists * sun protractor * long maps * concept table * big dipper * polar
graph * angle finder * lots-o-dots *kilometer bar * solar system squares *
star maps * zodiac ring * planet finder * concept lists * star dictionary
* sky wheel * milky way disk
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(#41) THE PLANETS AND STARS requires no lab equipment or unusual supplies. Just photocopy the 20 activity sheets, gather simple materials (like cereal boxes, straws, baby food jars and paper plates), and you're ready to explore TOPS Learning Systems hands-on.
GRADE RANGE: 7-12
ORIGINS: written by Ron Marson / illustrated by Peg Marson / copyrighted
in 1994
by TOPS Learning Systems / ISBN 0-941008-41-X
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#41 Planets and Stars @ $15.00
