Moons of Jupiter
Subtitle: Teacher's Guide
Edition: Revised edition
Publisher: University of California
Published: September 1993
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780924886874
Subjects: Science & Nature - Astronomy; Jupiter (Planet) -- Satellites -- Study and teaching.; Children: Grades 4-6
Genres: Juvenile nonfiction.
Description: Your students re-enact Galileo's historic telescopic observations of Jupiter's moons. They observe and record moon orbits over time and learn why these observations helped signal the birth of modern astronomy. Students experiment to learn how craters are formed; make scale models to better understand size and distance; and take a grand tour of the Jupiter system as viewed by the Voyager spacecraft. Then students work in teams to create, from an assortment of common materials, a settlement on one of the moons of Jupiter.
Notes: Special 2003 Jupiter update, p. 93-96.