Sun-Earth-Moon System Learning Guide includes self-directed readings, easy-to-follow illustrated explanations, guiding questions, inquiry-based activities, a lab investigation, key vocabulary review and assessment review questions, along with a post-test. It covers the following standards-aligned concepts: How the Earth Moves; Earth?s Hemispheres; Seasons on Earth; Gravity & Motion; Earth?s Moon; Phases of the Moon; Eclipses; Tides; and Missions to the Moon. Aligned to Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and other state standards.

Contains 250 questions and answers about astronomy, particular for the amateur astronomer.

Our Solar System Student Learning Guide includes self-directed readings, easy-to-follow illustrated explanations, guiding questions, inquiry-based activities, a lab investigation, key vocabulary review and assessment review questions, along with a post-test. It covers the following standards-aligned concepts: Formation of Our Solar System; Geocentric & Heliocentric Systems; Parts of Our Solar System; The Sun; Measuring Distances in Space; The Inner Planets; The Outer Planets; Comets, Asteroids & Meteors; and Pluto & the Kuiper Belt. Aligned to Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and other state standards.

Each page in this easy-to-read guide describes the features of a heavenly body in our solar system, including the Sun, the nine planets, the Earth's moon, and a comet. You'll also find a dramatic sticker illustration of each subject that you can apply to a blank space on the appropriate page. A fun way to learn about our cosmic neighbors, this fact-filled little book will also please teachers, parents, and other adults looking for educational and affordable learning aids for young space scientists.

Improvise compasses and quadrants to track the sun and moon across a graph paper sky. Cover a tennis ball in a beautiful earth wrapper, then tilt it towards a tennis-ball sun to comprehend seasons. Wrap a Ping-Pong ball halfway in black tape to model moon phases that wax and wane. Fathom heavenly motions indoors and out!

The Conference on the Earth-Moon relationships brought together a number of distinguished scientists from different fields - such as Astronomy, Celestial Mechanics, Chemistry - but also scholars of Literature and Art, to discuss these relationships, their origins, and their influence on human activities and beliefs.