Space Links

Videos

Here are some good educational videos about our Solar System that tie in really well with the Gr. 6 Science Curriculum.

National Geographic, 3min 20sec

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/science/space-sci/solar-system/solar-system-sci.html

not as flashy as the others, but really informative (and I think they used kilometers).

Discovery "Space School", 4 min 20 sec

http://videos.howstuffworks.com/science-channel/33309-space-school-the-solar-system-video.htm

nice to look at, informative, but gives units in miles so might be harder to relate to the scales if grew up using km.

Khan Academy, these are about 10 minutes each,

http://www.khanacademy.org/video/scale-of-earth-and--sun?playlist=Cosmology+and+Astronomy

http://www.khanacademy.org/video/scale-of-solar-system?playlist=Cosmology+and+Astronomy

Each one leads to another. The first 2 are most relevant to the curriculum, but I watched at least an hours worth of them and was pretty entertained. Even though he mispronounced a couple things and gets a little repetitive on how overwhelming the scale of things are, I still thought it was pretty good. He actually did convey the sense of vast scales pretty well.

Not really related to the curriculum, but very interesting:

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/phil_plait_how_to_defend_earth_from_asteroids.html