Short (7 min) video from NASA talking about the ~7 year old debate over the nature of a planet and the creation of the dwarf planet category

Hi Everyone. Although it's later than I intended, at this link you can get a Word doc with copies of everything we did at the workshop. Hope it's useful!

For those of you who have access to Discovery Education / United Streaming, there is a short, 2 minute snippet called "Gravity & Inertia" that is part of "Spin Around the Solar System: How the Solar System Works". It does a pretty good job of describing what you need for an orbit.

We demonstrated the Gas Properties & My Solar System simulations during the 2012 workshop

Very comprehensive database with detailed, written descriptions of the planets (and moons) that can also be used for a comparative planetology data gathering activity of some sort.

If you want to work on comparative planetology, here is one table for retrieving data (can be supplemented by what is found in Starry Night)

This is the on-line course that all materials are open even to unregistered students. If you would like more info about the on-line MEd in Earth Science, let me know

(This includes the 5 question survey, which includes the shape of the Earth's orbit question we covered in the workshop)

You can also order a DVD copy of the video we watched in class, or watch it for free on-line.

Just released today -- July 19, 2011

This came up today as a resource for younger students to use to learn about the properties of the Solar System