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1. Time for Kids - Star Sisters
Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Return to Unit List Grade 1 1 Unit 1: Experience Teacher's Edition p. 19 Time for Kids Time for Kids Star Sisters From the Student Web Page Serena Williams, tennis star Meet tennis champ Serena Williams! Look at the pictures of Serena and her sister Venus. With your teacher, read what Serena said. What would you ask Serena? About the site This Web page presents an interview with Olympic gold medalist Serena Williams. Serena and her sister Venus won the women's doubles tennis competition in Sydney, Australia. In the interview, Serena shares her though...

2. CIESE - Wonderful World of Weather Project - Weather on Other Planets
Table of Teacher Contents Lessons Implementation Assistance Lesson 10: Weather on Other Planets Overview In Lesson 10, students will investigate the weather on Venus and Mars. This lesson is designed as an activity where students will work independently or in small groups to gather available weather and climactic information about Mars and Venus from selected web sites. They will then report on their findings. Note: Students should have completed an introductory...

3. Looking at Narrative Art Lesson 1: What Are Stories? (Education at the Getty)
...ists and writers represent the same story in different ways. Students use narrative art vocabulary to describe an image derived from a story, and to determine which moment from the story is represented. Materials One of the two narrative images below Looking at Narrative Art Vocabulary The Story of Venus and Adonis The Story of Pluto and Proserpine Pluto, Porserpine / Download this Venus & Adonis / Girardon lesson Titian Pluto and Download this Venus and Proserpine, lesson Adonis, Girardon (RTF - 60KB) Titian Narrative Art Pluto and Vocabulary Venus and Proserpine Adonis Looking at Story of Pluto Na...

4. Looking at Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes (Education at the Getty)
...s represent different aspects of a character's personality. create a short story using attributes to describe the characters. Materials Images of three pairs of objects from the Getty collection, below. Worksheet: Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Gods, Abduction of Jupiter / Goddesses, and Europa / Raon Venus / Heroes Rembrandt van Nollekens worksheet Rijn Jupiter, Raon, Worksheet: The Abduction of about 1670 Venus, Gods, Europa, Nollekens, Goddesses, and Rembrandt, 1632 1773 Heroes (RTF - 49KB) Boy with Dragon Venus and / Bernini Adonis / Cabinet on Titian Boy with Stand / Dragon, Boulle Venus and Berni...

5. Benchmarks: The graphical display of numbers may help to show patterns such as trends or varying rates of change
Timing the Transit of Venus. Introduction: During the four previous transits of Venus in 1761, 1769, 1874 and 1882 astronomers carefully noted the start and stop times of the passage of Venus across the face of the Sun. When these times were combined with the latitude and longitudes of the various observers, astronomers could...

6. Solar System Search
...ts that do not have rings. You must look carefully to find the correct planet. Put your finger on the planet that is Earth. Water and land cover Earth. Did you know that most of Earth is covered by water? Color Earth part brown and part blue. Draw a picture of yourself standing on top of the Earth. Venus is the planet that is almost as big as Earth. Put your finger on Venus. Venus is hard to see because thick clouds cover it. Venus thick clouds hold in heat from the Sun. Venus is a very hot planet. Draw yellow clouds all around Venus. The last planet for us to color is Mars. Mars has a lot of the me...

7. Where is SOHO?
...A); Madrid, Spain; and Canberra, Australia. As the Earth rotates on its axis, DSN observes SOHO continuously from one of its sites. Activity: How far away is SOHO? (A measuring activity, appropriate for grades 9-12) Materials: Meter sticks, or meter tape Cut-outs of Sun, Earth, Moon, SOHO, Mercury, Venus (A blow-up Earth ball, showing locations of California, Spain and Australia, would be ideal to show why SOHO is always in view.) Individual student science notebooks or paper. Type of Activity: Student-centered: Students measure distances and position classmates. Out of doors: Students use football...

8. Make Quiz Time a Fun Time
...y, Literature > Lesson Plan L E S S O N P L A N Make Quiz Time a Fun Time Teacher Lesson Subjects This lesson activity can be adapted to many subject areas. Grades 3-5 Brief Description This classroom quiz activity offers a fun way to check students' knowledge after they research a topic. "Mercury, Venus, and Earth" are the subjects of the quiz used in this example, but the learning activity can be adapted to almost any topic in any curriculum area. Objectives Students will research a topic. participate in a fun quiz activity to check what they learned. compare and classify information. Keywords Spa...

9. Planet-Tac-Toe
...he others. (Saturn) 3. This planet has the fastest revolution around the Sun. (Mercury) 4. Some of the solar systems deepest valleys are found here. (Mars) 5. This is the hottest body in our solar system. (Sun) 6. Most of this planet is covered by water. (Earth) 7. This planet is closest to Earth. (Venus) 8. Only one planet is smaller than this one. (Mercury) 9. No other planet is hotter than this one. (Venus) 10. This planet has one more moon than Earth. (Mars) 11. The energy from this body provides light to the Earth. (Sun) 12. Only Jupiter is larger than this planet. (Saturn) 13. This planet is t...

10. Runaway Greenhouse Effect Exercise
...Runaway Greenhouse Effect Exercise Explore Teaching Examples Provide Feedback Runaway Greenhouse Effect Exercise Teaching materials by Paul Francis - Starting Point page by R. Teed (SERC). This material is replicated on a number of sites as part of the SERC Pedagogic Service Project Summary "Why is Venus so much hotter than the Earth? You are a group of experts gathered from around the world to solve this long-standing mystery..." This is a collaborative problem-solving exercise about the greenhouse effect on Venus. Students role-play biologists, coal geologists, space warfare experts, astronomers,...