



| A five part 4,000+ slide PowerPoint roadmap takes your students on an amazing amazing educational journey through our solar system and beyond. Stunning visuals, hands-on activities, step by step drawings, links to great educational websites, videos, and much more make this unit a student favorite. A bundled homework package, unit notes, and answers keys are all included. Duration = 6+ weeks |








| Areas of Focus in the Astronomy Topics Unit: The Solar System and the Sun, Stellar Parrallax, Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler,Astronomical Unit, Order of the Planets, Our Sun, Sun Spots, Fusion, Fission, Layers of the Sun, Life Cycle of a Star, Solar System Formation, Size of Stars, Sun Dials, Solar Eclipse, Lunar Eclipse, The Habitable Zone, Astronomical Units, The Inner Planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Axial Tilt and Seasons, Solstice, Equinox, Earths Electromagnetic Field, Moon, Synchronous Orbit, Craters, Tides, Tidal Bores, Phases of the Moon (w/ OROES), Lunar Calenders, Mars and Moons, Rovers and Landers, Apollo Missions, Rocketry, Bulding Water Bottle Rockets, Trajectory, Space Shuttle Program, ISS, Asteroid Belt, NEO’s, The Torino Scale, The Outer Planets and Gas Giants, Jupiter / Moons, Saturn / Moons, Uranus / Moons, Neptune / Moons, Pluto's Demotion, The Kuiper Belt, Oort Cloud, Comets / Other, Beyond the Solar System, Types of Galaxies, Blackholes, Extrasolar Planets, The Big Bang, Dark Matter, Dark Energy, The Special Theory of Relativity, Hubble Space Telescope, Constellations. Difficulty Rating 7/10 |



| The Astronomy Topics Unit includes an interactive and engaging PowerPoint Presentation of 4,000+ slides with built in class notes (Red Slides), lab activities, project ideas, discussion questions, assessments, challenge questions with answers, videos, links to other educational websites, and much more. Text is in large print (32 font) and placed at the top of each slide so it can be seen and read from all angles of a classroom. A shade technique, as well as color coding text throughout the slideshow helps maintain student focus and allows teacher to control the pace of the lesson. Also included is a 13 page assessment that chronologically follows the PowerPoint slideshow for nightly homework and the end of the unit assessment, as well as a 10 page modified assessment. 7 pages of class notes with images are also included for students who could benefit from assistance, as well as answer keys to both assessments for support professionals, teachers, and homeschool parents. 50+ video and academic links are provided and a slide within the slideshow cues teacher / parent when the videos are most relevant to play. Video shorts usually range from 2-7 minutes. Four PowerPoint review games are included (125-170 slides each). Answers to the PowerPoint review games are provided in PowerPoint form so students can self-assess. Lastly, several class games such as guess the hidden picture beneath the boxes, and the find the hidden owl somewhere within the slideshow, crossword puzzles, worksheets, rubrics,and much more are provided. Difficulty rating 7/10. |





















































































































































































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| Astronomy Unit notes that chronologically follows the PowerPoint slideshow. Great for students who require assistance and support professionals. |
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| Astronomy Bundled Homework package that chronologically follows the six part PowerPoint slideshow. Great for nightly review of lessons. Answers and modified version provided in full unit. |
| Preview bundled homework package and materials list (.doc) |
| Preview Unit Notes and Worksheets (.doc) |
| Preview PowerPoint Review Games with Answers (.ppt) |