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Participants place scale models of the planets, represented by fruit and other foods, in water to determine their density.

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Hints for uses in your library Different fruits can be used based on price and availability - see the "Selecting Fruits" attachment.
Related Links Information:
Dunking the Planets: Selecting Appropriate Foods
Dunking The Planets - Handout

Websites:
NASA Space Place: Solar System
NASA Solar System Exploration
Different Gravity
Simulating the Low-Gravity Conditions of Space in the Lab
What is a Planet?
Our Solar System
Explore the solar system
Secrets of the Solar System Family
The Other Distant Giants Are Kindred Planets with Individual Quirks
Inner, Rocky Neighbors Are Siblings to Earth
Countless Small Objects Are Part of Our Solar System's Extended Family
Solar System in My Neighborhood: Planet Sizes and Distances
Optional: Family Portrait...in Numbers
Searching for Other Planets Like Ours - Space Place in a Snap!

Games, apps, and simulations:
NASA’s Eyes on the Solar System
Learn about our home planet, our solar system, the universe beyond, and the spacecraft exploring them with this downloadable application
A tediously accurate scale model of the solar system (scroll to explore)

Images:
Jupiter and its Moons
Mars Exploration
Mercury
Neptune and its Moons
Saturn
Uranus

Videos:
Solar System Exploration: Nat Geo
Video: A Stunning Scale Model of Our Solar System, Drawn in the Desert
How big is the solar system?
Where does the solar system end? A video about the Oort Cloud - Space Place in a Snap!
NISE Network: Strategies for Approaching Common Misconceptions Around Difficult Scientific Concepts
Originating Source Lunar and Planetary Institute
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How Many Planets Circle the Sun?: And Other Questions About Our Solar System by Mary Kay Carson and Ron Miller
The Darkest Dark by Chris Hadfield, Kate Fillion, Eric Fan and Terry Fan
A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars by Seth Fishman, Jeremy Arthur and Isabel Greenberg
Space Machines by Ian Graham and Carles Ballesteros
2018 Young Explorer's Adventure Guide by Bruce Golden, Nancy Kress, Stephen Blake, Sherry D Ramsey and Dawn Vogel
My tourist guide to the solar system and beyond by Lewis Dartnell
Look Inside Space by Rob Lloyd Jones, Benedetta Giaufret and Enrica Rusiná
The Planets in Our Solar System by Franklyn M Branley and Kevin O'Malley
The Planets by Gail Gibbons
The Magic School Bus Lost In The Solar System by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen
13 Planets : the Latest View of the Solar System by David A Aguilar
Postcards from Pluto : a Tour of the Solar System by Loreen Leedy
Things That Float and Things That Don't by David A Adler and Raff, Anna

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Dunking the Planets

Dunking the Planets

Participants place scale models of the planets, represented by fruit and other foods, in water to determine their density.