Tools for Engaging Public Audiences in Planetary Science
PowerPoints for you to revise and personalize
LPI’s 2020 Solar System Exploration
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LPI’s 2020 Solar System Overview
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PowerPoints available through NASA’s Museum Alliance
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Night Sky Network’s SpaceRocks
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Night Sky Network’s Guide to the Solar System
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Night Sky Network’s New Horizon
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Night Sky Network’s To the Moon
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Simple activities and demonstrations
Jump to Jupiter
Create a scale model of the solar system, counting the number of jumps to each planet.
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Kid Moon: Splat!
Use water balloons as a model of impacts, comparing the width of the balloon to the width of the splatter.
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Investigating the Insides
Make observations of mystery “planets” to infer their composition and structure.
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Heavyweight Champion: Jupiter
Weigh yourself on other worlds using modified scales.
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Mars Match
Compare images of Mars' surface features with Earth’s.
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Dry Ice Comet
Make a model of a comet with dry ice and other ingredients to demonstrate the comet nucleus, coma, and outgassing.
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Space Rocks: A Meteorite Board Game
Learn about meteoroids, meteors, meteorites, asteroids, and comets as you move from outer space to Earth’s surface.
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Meteorite Investigators
Examine rock samples to determine which are meteorites and which are not.
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