MERLOT Materials

This National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) website provides information about the group of short-period... see more

Includes images, animations, and links.

As an anticipatory set to any lesson (especially solar system for third graders) that has to do with Pluto and the Charon... see more

This is a lesson about ice worlds in the outer planetary regions and the role they play in understanding the Solar... see more

This website, created by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, provides information about the Pluto-Kuiper... see more

This website, by California Institute of Technology astronomer Mike Brown, describes dwarf planets and the issues in... see more

Pluto, (PLOO toh), is a dwarf planet that orbits far from the sun. It shares the region of its orbit, known as the Kuiper... see more

Teachers can use this website to teach students about this recently revised map of the universe which illustrates recent... see more

'Travel to worlds at the edge of the solar system aboard NASA’s New Horizons, the first mission to Pluto and the distant... see more

Home of the Clark Telescope, the Lowell Observatory's mission is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study... see more