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Jump to Jupiter
New activity
Participants jump through a course from the grapefruit-sized “Sun,” past poppy-seed-sized “Earth,” and on to marble-sized “Jupiter” — and beyond!
Open Activity
How-to Video
Teacher's Guide
Provides classroom connections, key concepts, connections to science standards, and additional resources.
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Excellent hands-on learning!
Jump to Jupiter was a wild success for my program. Participants were engaged and interested in the content, and were very surprised at how small the planets were relative to the sun (myself included)!
The setup for the program took a little bit of work and the most difficult part was finding a sufficiently big outdoor space to conduct the actual jumping. We ended up having only two kids who wanted to jump all the way to Uranus and Neptune while the rest of the group watched.
Having the participants look back at the sun with each planet they arrived at helped to Put into perspective the distance of the outer planets.
Having everyday objects like salt, pollin, wooden beads and a grapefruit made this program accessible and informational for everyone involved. I would definitely recommend this and do it again! It could also be done as a passive program along the lines of a storywalk!