Space for Schools: Alabama
Every space standard in the Alabama Course of Study, from Grade 1 sky patterns to high school stars and gravitation, matched to a free lesson page, live tools and worksheets.
Last updated . Curriculum links last reviewed November 2026.
What Alabama uses
Checked November 2026The 2023 Alabama Course of Study: Science, adopted by the State Board of Education in December 2023. Standards are numbered within each grade or course, so a teacher writes Grade 5, Standard 10. Space appears in Grades 1, 5, 6 and 8 and in high school Earth and Space Science and Physics.
Huntsville is home to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.
How to use this page
Find your code in the tables below. The lesson page has a lesson sequence, common misconceptions and questions with answers; the live tools and the worksheet open straight from the same row.
Grade 1
Sky patterns| Code | What students do | Lesson page | Live tools and worksheet |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard 8 | Predict where the Sun, Moon and stars will appear | 1-ESS1-1 | Moon globe, Moonrise Tonight, What's that light in the sky? Moon diary |
| Standard 9 | Hours of daylight through the seasons | 1-ESS1-2 | Live ISS tracker, ISS Visible Tonight |
Grade 5
Sun, stars and gravity| Code | What students do | Lesson page | Live tools and worksheet |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard 5 | Earth's gravity pulls toward its center | 5-PS2-1 | Worlds, Re-entry tracker, Live ISS tracker Weight on other worlds |
| Standard 10 | Why the Sun looks bigger and brighter than other stars | 5-ESS1-1 | The Sun in 3D, Deep Space: light-time, What's that light in the sky? |
| Standard 11 | Shadows, day and night, Moon phases and seasonal stars | 5-ESS1-2 | Live ISS tracker, What's that light in the sky? How many sunrises do astronauts see? |
Grade 6
The solar system| Code | What students do | Lesson page | Live tools and worksheet |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard 1 | Model how the Sun, Earth and Moon move | MS-ESS1-1 | Moon globe, Eclipse tracker, Live ISS tracker Moon diary |
| Standard 2 | How our picture of the universe has changed | Live tools only | Space telescopes, Deep Space: light-time |
| Standard 3 | Gravity in galaxies and the solar system | MS-ESS1-2 | Deep Space, Live Globe, Near-Earth objects |
| Standard 4 | Sizes, distances and orbits of solar system objects | MS-ESS1-3 | Deep Space: light-time, Worlds, Mars globe Voyager 1 light-time |
Grade 8
Forces at a distance| Code | What students do | Lesson page | Live tools and worksheet |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard 12 | Gravity as a force that acts without contact | MS-PS2-4 | Worlds, Moon globe, Deep Space Weight on other worlds |
High school
Earth and Space Science, Physics| Code | What students do | Lesson page | Live tools and worksheet |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESS 1 | Mass, gravity and fusion over a star's life | HS-ESS1-1 | The Sun in 3D, Aurora forecast, Space telescopes |
| ESS 2 | How the solar system and universe move, with Kepler's laws | HS-ESS1-4 | Satellite directory, Types of orbits, Live ISS tracker Kepler's third law |
| ESS 3 | From Ptolemy to Kepler: how astronomers changed the model | HS-ESS1-4 | Satellite directory, Types of orbits, Live ISS tracker Kepler's third law |
| Physics 5 | Circular motion and Newton's universal gravitation | HS-PS2-4 | Worlds, Satellite directory, Live ISS tracker Weight on other worlds |
About these codes
These are our suggestions for where each tool fits. Always preview a page before using it with a class: some tools show ads, these school pages do not.
Codes: Alabama Course of Study: Science (Alabama State Department of Education). Activities and lesson pages are our own words. Orbital Radar is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Alabama State Department of Education.
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