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Probe Trip to Pluto
How Far Is Pluto?
Lesson Objective
• Students will compare in miles of each planet
in our solar system
Agenda for Day One
• What is Pluto?
• How far is Pluto?
• Word Associations with Numbers
• Know That? Video
• Wrap-up for Day One: Scaling of Universe
What is Pluto?
• Is that a name of a dog in Disney World?
• Is that a planet from our solar system?
• How many planets do we have in this solar
system?
Planets in Solar system
starting with our Sun
• Mercury
• Jupiter
• Venus
• Saturn
• Earth
• Uranus
• Mars
• Neptune
Distances from two points
• Texas to Hawaii is 3,500 miles
• Texas to Australia 9,200 miles
• Earth to Moon 240,000 miles
• Earth to Sun 93,000,000 miles
• Earth to Mars 140,000,00 miles
• Earth to Pluto 5,000,000,00 miles
Word Associations with numbers
• 240,000 miles means 240 thousand miles
• 140,000,000 means 140 million
• 5,000,000,000 means 5 billion
Know That?!
• Video made by Austin Andrews and Jeremy
Weston and use in ASL to help visualize what
is going on with the planets.
• http://goo.gl/AmNHCe
Know That?!
• What did you like about the video?
• How far is Pluto?
• Discuss in terms of distances between sun and
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus,
and Neptune.
• What have you learned about the distance in terms of
miles between Earth and Pluto.
Wrap Up: How FAR Is Pluto?
• Animation with a scaling of the universe
• http://scaleofuniverse.com/
• How far are we in this Universe?