Click, Play, Explore
The Solar System: An Interactive Online Course combines the structure of an online course with interactive elements to make learning an active experience. Students click, play, and explore each topic.
✔ Interactive elements – Clickable content and draggable items
✔ Educational games – Escape games and mini-games that reinforce key concepts
✔ Kid-friendly lessons – Small chunks of text with voiceover
✔ Visual aids – Videos and images to help explain topics
✔ Worksheets and activities – worksheets with every lesson for off-screen learning
✔ Secular – All of our content is secular
✔ Structure – Track progress through a structured online course
✔ Grade 3 – Geared toward Grade 3, but some lessons may require extra help/explanation.
Lesson Examples:
Worksheets
Every lesson has accompanying worksheets so students can practice what they've learned and get creative.
Topics:
How the Solar System Formed
- How the Solar System Formed
- The Ecliptic Plane
- Game: Escape the Water Planet
Understanding Days and Years
- Sidereal Day vs Solar Day
- Length of a Year | Leap Year
- Rotation vs Revolution
- Game: Escape the Alien Invasion
The Sun and Inner Planets
- The Sun and Solar Eclipses
- Mercury
- Venus
- Earth, the Moon, and Lunar Eclipses
- Mars
- The Asteroid Belt
- Game: Escape the Asteroid
The Outer Planets
- Jupiter
- Saturn
- Uranus
- Neptune
- Game: Ordering the Planets
- The Kuiper Belt
- Dwarf Planets
- Game: Escape the Alien Planet
Beyond the Kuiper Belt
- The Scattered Disk and Eris
- The Heliosphere
- Interstellar Space
- The Oort Cloud
- Comets
- Game: Escape the Lava Planet
Measuring, Exploring, and Working in Space
- Astronomical Unit
- Light-Year
- Telescopes
- Space Stations
- Space Careers
- Game: Escape the Candy Planet
Gamified Final Exam
- Questions on every lesson
- Not graded
Details
This course is set up like a traditional online course, where students progress through each lesson at their own pace.
What makes this course so unique?
- Each lesson is GAMIFIED! This means interactive content and games.
- It teaches more than just the planets! Learn about the Scattered Disk, Heliosphere, space stations, sidereal day vs solar day, and more!
- No-prep, differentiated, and kid-friendly.
*Geared toward Grade 3, but some lessons may require extra help/explanation.
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1Welcome!
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2How the Solar System Formed
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3👾 GAMES
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4Sidereal Day vs Solar Day
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5Length of a Year
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6Rotation vs Revolution
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7👾 GAME
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8The Sun and Solar Eclipses
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9Mercury
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10Venus
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11Earth
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12Earth's Moon
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13Mars
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14The Asteroid Belt
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15👾 GAME
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16Jupiter
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17Saturn
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18Uranus
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19Neptune
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20👾 GAME
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21The Kuiper Belt
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22Dwarf Planets
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23👾 GAME
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24The Scattered Disk and Eris
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25The Heliosphere
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26Interstellar Space
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27The Oort Cloud
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28Comets
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29👾 GAME
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30Astronomical Unit
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31Light-Year
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32Telescopes
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33Space Stations
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34Space Careers
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35👾 GAME
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36👾 Gamified Final Exam
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37🎉 YOU DID IT!