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ok my 8 and 10 year olds teachers wants me to put on a program for there classes.Can anybody point me to easy to teach info for this that 8 and 10 year olds might enjoy. Iwas going to take my vedieo tape i made of the moon and juiter and also some pictures of some of the planets. Maybe take several telescopes and explain the differences. Can anybody help please.

Go to one of those websites that make a model of the solar system, and spread it out on the local playground.

Take a basketball, and put it on home plate and say "This is the sun, see how big it is" (and talk about it for a while). Then walk the few feet to a piece of raisin seed and say "This is Mercury." And talk about it. Then another few feet to an orange seed, and say "See Venus....It is really hot." By the time you are at first base (Another orange seed for the earth) you turn around and say--"look how small the sun has gotten." And it just goes on from there for a few more planets.

Alex

The most basic, easily observed, yet commonly misunderstood pageant in the sky is the apparent changing shape of the Moon.

Place a bright lamp at one end of a fairly dark room or hallway. It represents the Sun. Have a student stand with a ball supported by his upward facing palm at the end of his arm stretched fully in front of him. The ball is the Moon. The student is the Earth. Have him slowly rotate through a full circle. Aha! He will immediately recognize the reason that the Moon appears to change its shape.

You will be applauded for this simple demonstration. Believe me. Even by adults.