Introduction

You will be visiting some Super Space Sites and you will be able to expand your knowledge of our Solar System by finding answers to questions, playing some great games and following directions to produce some Space Art work! Have fun exploring these sites but watch out for the aliens!

Web Activities

Age, weight on other planets. Make an alien.

1. What is your age in Earth years? Type in your age and click.  You will see how old you are on other planets.
2. Make an alien.  Click on this site and you will find 'Korky's Monster Maker'.  Click on the features you would like your alien to have. Type in your name and click 'Go'.  Read your poem and then draw your alien.
3. Go back to 'Korky's Monster Maker' and label your alien's features on your drawing.

Questions and puzzles about the planets

1. Click on the Solar System and play the Solar System Puzzle.
2. Click on the planet Mercury and play the puzzle.
3. Choose your own planet and try the puzzle.

Year Three sites

1. On this site click on 'game sites'.  Then click on 'Flashcard Quiz' about the planets. You will learn some interesting facts about the planets. Write down three of these facts.
2. Go back and press on either the Concentration or Matching Game. 
3. Go back and click on 'Fun Word Search' and see if you can find the hidden planets.

Space games

1. Click on the first picture in Row 2.  You will get 'Korky in Space'.  Read the story and then design another page for Korky to see or do in Outer Space.  You can make a class big book!
2. In row 2, picture 2, click on the picture of the floating spaceman and you will discover some exciting activities that will take you into space travel.
3. Click on the picture of the spacesuit, row 2, picture 3. You will be able to dress 'Scout the Dog' ready for his space travel.

Solar System

1. Click on the Solar System. Then click on the Sun.  Write down the reason why people used to offer gold and food to the sun.
2. Go back and click on the Moon.  Write down the name of the first human to set foot on the Moon.
3. Go back and click on Meteoroids.  Write down the name of the country where people dig up and use the iron from Meteoroids.  Write down what they use it for.

Conclusion

By now you should have a better idea how exciting Space can be. This Sampler was created because although it's important to learn information about things and to think critically about subjects, further learning doesn't always take place if a personal connection doesn't first exist. We hope that through this Sampler you've found such a connection. If you have, maybe you're motivated to learn more? The Internet and traditional resources offer plenty of other choices to explore on the topic so why not follow your interests?