National Standards for Grades 6-12
 
This kit contains building materials for students to create models of the solar system. Each planet is tiny relative to the size of the sun, and the orbits are massive compared to the size of the planets. Although students will discover that it is not plausible to build a true scale model, they are challenged to build a model that suggests the scale of the solar system. Materials expansion kit for 17-102, Earth’s Place in the Universe.