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In this activity, learners confront their perceptions of gravity in the solar system.

In this demonstration, learners compare the relative sizes and masses of scale models of the planets as represented by fruits and other foods.

In this activity, learners model the gravitational fields of planets on a flexible surface.

In this outdoor archaeology activity, learners use mathematical skills and scientific inquiry to generate and process information from their own excavation site.

In this group activity, learners will mark important developments of life on Earth on a timeline (each foot in length representing 200 million years).

In this activity, learners build a scale model of the solar system using a roll of toilet paper.

In this space science activity, learners work together to create a human-powered orrery to model the movements of the four inner planets.

In this math-based activity, learners model the intensity of light at various distances from a light source, and understand how astronomers measure the amount of sunlight that hits our planet and othe

This is a classic exercise for visualizing the scale of the Solar System.

In this activity, learners shrink the scale of the vast solar system to the size of their neighborhood.

In this activity, learners investigate the concepts of relative size and distance by creating a basic model of the solar system.

In this activity, learners plan and create a 24-foot long, two-dimensional model of our solar system, and compare and contrast the differences between planets and the sun.

In this activity, learners explore the relative size of the Sun and Earth as well as the distance between them.

In this activity, learners map their world by drawing a plan of their bedroom.

In this activity, learners create their own archaeological profiles.

In this activity, learners examine the culture and history of the tomb site.

Learners explore water adhesion and learn about why water molecules are more strongly attracted to some substances than others.

In this activity, learners explore how distance can affect the way we perceive the size of an object.

In this online interactive challenge, learners choose items to represent the Earth or solar system, then determine other items to represent the Moon, or Milky Way based on their relative size.

In this activity, learners help create and then navigate an outdoor course of the traditional "planets" (including dwarf planet Pluto), which are represented by small common objects.