Solar System and Beyond | NGSS
What kinds of future space missions should we fund and conduct?
Students take observations from their everyday life and build scientific models to try to understand how phenomena, such as changes in the moon’s appearance, seasons, and gravity work. Through data collection and analyzation students later use their understanding of what can be learned through space missions to determine the trade-offs of different proposed space missions.
Students generate and answer questions such as: What causes the patterns of motion of objects in space? What causes a solar or lunar eclipse? How can we use technology, either from Earth or space missions, to understand space objects and how they appear to move through space?
Details at a Glance
- 4-7 Weeks | ~50 minute class periods
- 17 Activities
- Accommodates 5 classes, each with 8 groups of 4 students
- Consumables service 160 students
- Includes Spanish student materials
- Meets our criteria for supporting literacy
- Includes digital resources
- Developed in partnership with SEPUP & The Lawrence Hall of Science
- Includes assessment
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Evidence of Alignment
Issues and Science was developed at the Lawrence Hall of Science in response to the need for high quality, three dimensional, phenomena driven curriculum. Quick details from this unit:
- Anchoring phenomenon: There are a variety of objects in space, there are patterns of changes in the positions of these objects in the sky, and technology has played a critical role in obtaining evidence about these objects.
- Investigative phenomena within the 17 activities connect content to the unit issue, What kinds of future space missions should we fund and conduct?
- This unit builds towards and assesses Performance Expectations (PE) ESS1-1, ESS1-2, ESS1-3.
Program Components
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What comes with my unit materials?
Equipment for all Unit Activities
Includes a mobile storage cart and a complete set of materials for 17 units of study. Our complete equipment package supports up to 5 classes of 32 students.
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Online Teacher Portal access for one teacher for 7 years, which includes: Spanish versions, LABsent, editable PowerPoints, Teacher Edition, Student Book, and supplemental resources.
Learn More About the Online PortalWhat are the options for student access?
Student access is not included in the Complete Equipment Package to keep purchasing options flexible. You have the option of purchasing printed student books, online student access, or both.
Student Book
Additional $34.50 per book
Hardbound, high-quality student books are designed to last the length of an adoption for use year after year. Unlike a traditional texbook, the Student Book does not provide science content through reading and questions. Instead students are encouraged to question, investigate, and analyze in each of the heavily field-tested activities.
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The online student portal is optional but highly recommended. Here students will find access to Remote Learning Activities in case of an absence, support tools like ReadSpeaker with translation, and can have direct communication with the teacher (for schools who want this feature).
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