AstroCappella: Activities & Lesson Plans

Unlinked background materials are available on the AstroCappella 2.0 CD.

The Songs	Activities and Lesson Plans	Puzzles and Quizzes
Nine Planets	Build a Scale Model of the Solar System	These items are available on the AstroCappella 2.0 CD.
Sun Song	What's it like inside the Sun? Convection in a bowl of miso soup
Habitable Zone	What's it like on Venus and Mars? "Lead" fondue and ice cream "polar caps"
Lunar Love	Arms Around the Moon Learn about the phases of the Moon
HST-Bop	How many stars in the Milky Way? Statistical sampling methods
Come and Visit Mars	Remote Sensing Learn how scientists use 0s and 1s to create an image
A Little Bit of Rock	Build a comet Create a comet from easily-obtained ingredients!
Dance of the Planets	Go Take an Orbit Map out another solar system Meet the Neighbors - Planets Around Nearby Stars Determine the radius and orbit of a planet around a star
Doppler Shifting	Here it Comes, There it Goes Build a "Doppler Ball"
Wolf 359	Land Safely Build a package to deliver a raw egg to the ground
Cosmic Radio Show	Communications Lab Build a parabolic dish receiver
High Energy Groove	The Universe in a Different Light Card game
Swift Song	How Far, How Powerful? Measure the distance to a Gamma-ray burst