The solar system
Pennsylvania Core and Academic Education Standards. All planets in our solar system rotate and they all revolve around the Sun. Inner planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth. Outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. Comets are made of ice and rock. They have four parts: a nucleus which is the solid portion of the comet and is made of dust and ice, a coma which is a cloud of dust and evaporated gases, an ion tail and a dust tail. Read More...
The resources above correspond to the standards listed below:
Pennsylvania Core and Academic Standards
PA.3. Science and Technology and Engineering Education
3.3. Earth and Space Sciences
3.3.B. Origin and Evolution of the Universe
3.3.5.B1. Provide evidence that the earth revolves around (orbits) the sun in a year's time and that the earth rotates on its axis once approximately every 24 hours.
Standards
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