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Fly Me to the Moons -- Middle School
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Written By: Frances Dellutri, Jr. High/Intermediate Level SpacEdge Education Team, Updated August 2023
Grade (Age) Level: Grades 5-8 (Ages 10-13)Updated 11/9/23
Key Topics Associated With Standards:Scale Properties, Astronomy, Solar System Models, Proportion, Quantity, Interpreting Data, Gravity, Patterns, Math, Moon, Modeling
US Standards: NGSS:
MS-ESS1-3 http://www.nextgenscience.org/dci-arrangement/ms-ess1-earths-place-universe
Summary: This interdisciplinary course will allow investigations into the relative location of objects in our solar system, how to change the scale of those items, the relative size of objects in a model. Students are further encouraged to conduct research on the moons in our solar system and then to make a model of one, complete with its features using artistic techniques.
Goals: The goals of the course are to impress scale modeling techniques and perspectives.
Pre-requisite: Understanding of ratios is helpful.
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