Hands-on Activities

The PASSPORT TO THE SOLAR SYSTEM Resource Packet includes 4 (four) Teacher's Guides offering 85 Hands-On Activities!

Apply authentic scientific procedures to solve real-world problems

With this package of materials your students won't just watch science happen, they'll experience key concepts for themselves in their own classrooms. The Teacher's Guide provides dozens of engaging activities that mirror the experiments of scientists working in the real world. Do "Mapping the Topography of Unknown Surfaces" (LIVE FROM MARS Guide, page 21) and your students will be using the same principles as do Mars Global Surveyor researchers studying the Red Planet! Through implementing these simple, fun and informative inquiry based activities, your students will become scientifically literate and practice both the habits of mind and the methods of science.

P2K's multiple media materials engage students with varied learning styles and engage the multiple intelligences found in a typical classroom. The videos excite those left cold by textbooks. The Hands-on Activities provide "Eureka!" moments not found simply by viewing TV. Online resources launch students on a guided exploration of the wealth of materials found on the P2K websites or on teacher-reviewed sites across the World Wide Web.

No matter what level or ability of students you have, P2K offers something for every classroom.

Sample PASSPORT TO THE SOLAR SYSTEM Activity 1.2: Mapping the Topography of Unknown Surfaces

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