DK 1.2: Demonstrate an understanding of how components of our solar system influence various cycles and ways of living on Earth.

Things to do on solar eclipse day!

Help Lenny and Lexie get ready for a solar eclipse using your unplugged coding skills.

Safely view a solar eclipse by making and using a pinhole solar eclipse viewer.

Learn about how Canadian scientists observe and predict space weather.

Learn all about solar eclipses.

Learn the basics of the star we call the Sun.

Learn about how craters are formed and about some of Canada's impact craters.

Answers to some common questions about Earth’s Moon.

Learn about the James Webb telescope and Canada’s role in the mission.

Discover a set of resources to develop background knowledge on the topic of space exploration.

Discover a set of resources to get you up to speed on the discussion surrounding Mars

Discover how space agencies have explored the Red Planet in the past and present and learn about the future of human spaceflight to the red planet.

Learn how soil is different on Mars than on Earth, and what that means for growing plants on the red planet.

Discover some background information on how we'll learn to live and work on the Moon - and beyond!

Learn about the characteristics of the Earth and Mars, two planets in our Solar System.