Coming Live from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, students were involved virtually on an interactive lesson called "Our Solar Neighborhood".
Our solar system is a vast area with planets, asteroids, comets, and other objects orbiting one star, our Sun. What are the distinguishing characteristics of the planets in our solar system, the distances between them, and the paths they travel?
During this event, students exchanged information about our distinctive planets orbiting one massive star, our Sun. They learned about current NASA missions and how they use the information gathered to further our exploration of space.
The information and visuals shared with the students were amazing. Our speaker was very knowledgable and was able to answer questions and bring up visuals for the students almost immediately. She was able to break down the distance from the earth to the sun in ways the students could understand. She also shared about the New Horizon satellite on its way to Pluto and the new telescope being built that is over double the size of the Hubble Telescope and will see farther into space than ever before.
Some other information the students learned was the distances of each planet from the sun, the inner and outer planets of the solar system, physical characteristics of the planets, the difference between our planet and the gas planets, and what constitutes a dwarf planet.
It was truly an amazing lesson and experience for these third graders as they finished their unit on "Objects in the Sky".
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