Surveying the Solar System

Students will classify newly-discovered Solar System objects by analyzing their orbital properties. NGSS Lesson duration: 2 hours.

Related resources

• Handout: Surveying the Solar System Pretest/Posttest
• Handout: Surveying the Solar System Summative Assessment
• Video: The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) and the Solar System

Topics

• HS-ESS1-4
• MS-ESS1-2
• MS-ESS1-3
• solar system
• asteroids
• TNOs
• NEOs
• comets
• nebular theory
• Kepler's Laws
• orbits
• Newton's Laws of Motion
• gravity
• comparative planetology
• planetary science
• planetary geology