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Title Call Number
Journey into Space 629.4 ATK
The Planets in our Solar System 523.4 BRA 
Postcards from Pluto: a tour of the Solar System 523.2 LEE  
Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System 523.3 COL
The Planets 523.4 RUS
The Solar System 523.2 SIP 
The Solar System 523.2 BIR  
The Superbook of our Universe 523.1 MUI
Our Solar System 523.2 SIM 
Our Stars 523.8 ROC 
Planets around the Sun 523.4 SIM  
The Giant Planets 523 NOU
The Nine Planets 523.4 BRA  
Don't know much about the Solar System 523.2 DAV  
Out of this World PROF 520 OUT
Voyager: Exploring the Outer Planets 522.4 VER 
Individual Planets can be found here 523.4XXX

 

Title Call Number
Solar System VID 523.2 SOL  
Junior Space Scientist VID 523.2
The Magic School Bus gets lost in space VID 523.3 MAG
How Big is my Universe? VID 523 HOW
All about the Planets VID 523.4 ALL 

 

 

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A Virtual Tour of the Sun
An Overview of the Solar System
Arty the Astronaut (games and activities)
Ask an Astronomer (facts about the planets)
BBC School Astronomy (interactive activities)
  Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn
  Comparing night and day. (lesson)
Cosmic Quest Field Guide to the Universe
Distinguishing between Rotation and Revolution (lesson)
An Express tour of the Solar System
Motion of the Sun and Earth (lesson)
Educator's Reference Desk (lessons)
Planet facts
NASA Mars Rover
Making a scale model of the Solar System
Phases of the Moon
Moon Phase animated (activity)
NASA Space image of the day
NASA for students
  Rotation of the earth (animations)
Our Solar System. Facts and Pictures
Planet 10 virtual Solar system tour. Cool
Planet profiles, facts and graphs
Rotation and Revolution of the Planets (Charts)
Solar System puzzle game (activity)
Discovery School tour of the Galaxy
Views of the Solar System

 

 

Videos available in RISD only
Cassini probe passes Dione, a moon of Saturn (2:30)
Spirit Mission to Mars (9:25)
Space movies cinema. Clips of the Space program
A closer look at the Planets (20:00)
A first look at the Solar System (grades K-2) (15:00)
A look at the Sun (15:00)
Above and Beyond our Solar System (15:00)
Earth Science: Our Solar System (20:00)
Gravity and Inertia (2:01)
How the Solar System works (15:00)
Our Solar System. Junior Space Scientist (grades K-2) (13:33)
Reasons for the Seasons. Rotation and Revolution (26:05)
Rotation and Revolution (4:47)
Scale of the Solar System (9:25)
Space exploration in our Solar System (31:21)
The Planets (3:35)
The Planets (grades K-3) (5:36)
What is an Orbit? (1:30)
The Outer Planets (10:17)
The Inner Planets (10:04)

 

 

Click on the thumbnail to see the Relative size of the planets in our Solar System:

(Courtesy Calvin J. Hamilton)

ROTATION:

        

                                    The Sun                                         Jupiter

 

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