Fairfax County Public Schools Planetarium Website

FCPS Sixth Grade Unit Links

	Daylight Saving Time
	Future Eclipses
	Astronomy Misconceptions
	Solar System Cards
	Earth As A Peppercorn Model
	Build a Solar System calculator
	Hubble Space Telescope
	Asteroids and Comets
	Ceres
	Hubble Observations of Ceres
	Dawn mission to Ceres
	Dawn Education and Public Outreach
	Hubble observations of another solar system forming
	Hubble observations of Jupiter-sized extrasolar planets

	Teaching About Pluto's Change in Status
	Overview of Pluto, Charon, and the Kuiper Belt
	Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto
	Pluto Controversy
	Kuiper Belt Objects
	Kuiper Belt
	Pluto & Charon
	Nix & Hydra
	Hubble Observations of Pluto
	New Horizons mission to Pluto
	Where New Horizons is now
	New Horizons Education & Outreach
	Pluto's demotion not a cause for classroom panic from CNN
	Bill Nye's reaction: "‘Science Guy' Likes Pluto Change" from ABC News
	"Teaching What a Planet Is: A Roundtable on the Educational Implications of the New Definition of a Planet", edited by A. Fraknoi, Astronomy Education Review

Fairfax County Public School Planetariums
Rebecca Hinze-Pifer, Curator
Last updated December 18, 2008