Grade Level 4 PV Follow-Up

Sandburg Center for Sky Awareness
A Fairfax County Public Schools Planetarium

Grade Level 4 Planetarium Visit Follow-Up

After a visit to the Sandburg Planetarium to see the FCPS Grade Level 4 Planetarium Program The Sun and Its Neighbors, the following online instructional resources may be used to either reinforce understanding or extend/enrich your classroom-based astronomy unit.

SANDBURG CENTER FOR SKY AWARENESS WEB PAGES

Sandburg Planetarium Grade 4 Program Agenda (including a link to the Exploratorium Your Weight on Other Worlds)
Grade Level 4 Internet Information Resources - an annotated "Best of the Web" listing of resources related to the FCPS Grade Level 4 astronomy unit
SCSA Themes Web Page - refer to Solar Maximum Web sites
SCSA What's Up? Web page, providing pointers to several of the better online sky guides
SCSA State of Sky (SoS) Kiosk - Planet Watch
SCSA Special Events Web Page
SCSA Website of the Week (WoW!)

OFF-SITE WEB RESOURCES

SolarMax "Hot Facts"
A Question of Scale (based upon the film, "Powers of Ten"). Also, Powers of Ten animation (Java applet).
Make a scale model of the Solar System and learn the REAL definition of "space" by visiting the Exploratorium Build a Solar System Web page. Set the scale of the model by selecting the size of the Sun; the model size of the planets and their distance from the Sun is calculated automatically.
StarDate Online resources: Solar System Guide; AstroGlossary
Visit the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Best of the Solar System Web page to observe 23 extraordinary images of the Solar System.

Please let me know if you need more information to support either astronomy- or meteorology-related instruction--as a resource teacher, I can be, well, quite resourceful!

Sunny Days & Starry Nights!
Walter Sanford, Teacher
Sandburg Planetarium
E-mail: Walter.Sanford@fcps.edu