Who Benefits from Explorations of the Last Frontier?
This lesson plan may be used to address the academic standards listed below. These standards are drawn from Content Knowledge: A Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for K-12 Education: 2nd Edition and have been provided courtesy of the Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning in Aurora, Colorado. Grade level: 6-8 Subject area: physical science Standard: Understands essential ideas about the composition and structure of the universe and the Earth’s place in it. Benchmarks: Knows that the Sun’s gravitational pull keeps the Earth and other planets in their orbits, just as the gravitational pull of planets keeps their moons in orbit around them. Grade level: 6-8 Subject area: science Standard: Understands essential ideas about the composition and structure of the universe and the Earth’s place in it. Benchmarks: Knows that light travels from the Sun to the Earth in a few minutes, from the next nearest star in four years, and from very distant stars in several billion years; the
