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Exploring the Solar System: A History with 22 Activities
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Grades K–8
Exploring the Solar System is three resources in one. It’s an activity book that will have your students creating a realistic model of a comet and building a gas-powered rocket. It’s a field guide to the Solar System, featuring detailed scientific data about the Sun, planets, Moon, asteroids, and comets. It’s also a unique history of who made the most important space discoveries and how they created the technology to do it. The author dedicates the book to future explorers—and it’s sure to inspire your students.
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Project
Earth Science: Astronomy
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Grades 5–12
The hands-on, teacher-tested activities in Project Earth Science: Astronomy bring the sometimes-daunting concepts of astronomy down to Earth. Background information, supplementary readings, and suggestions for integrating other disciplines provide the teacher with a framework from which to launch a successful introduction to astronomy.
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