MESSENGER Education Modules:
Comparative Planetology

By studying Mercury, we look at the diversity of worlds and add to the knowledge base about the Solar System, its formation, and evolution.

Grades	Lessons
K-2	Making Models to Understand our Home	A View of Home from the Front Door and from Space	Taking a Voyage Away from Home
3-4	Modeling Patterns and Cycles in Our Lives	Designing a Scale Model of the Solar System	Voyage Through the Solar System
5-8	Our Solar Sytem	Voyage of Discovery	How Far is Far?
9-12	A Scale Model Solar System	The Voyage Scale Model Solar System	Earth Clocks and Viewing the Planets