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Classroom Activities – Climate, Oceans, Life

Classroom Activities – Climate, Oceans, Life I looked at these for quite a while before deciding to list them.  Once again, these are NASA materials based on a CD-Rom called A Visit to an Ocean Planet. You could use the activities without the cd-rom, but if you decide you want it, you can find it [...]

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Posted on 14th June 2010Comments Off
Building Big: Forces Lab

In this lab, you study what it takes to build big. Though this is placed in the forces section of our site, it actually investigates forces, loads, materials, and shapes. On the left side is a menu for different types of buildings. Clicking on one of those will give you more sites to research, plus [...]

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Posted on 1st February 2008Comments Off
Age on Different Planets Worksheet

Though we’ve listed the online site where you can just put in your age and the system figures it for you – See How Old Are You On Jupiter? – there are still those of us who insist on showing kids that science and math are tied together. And for us, I’ve listed the link [...]

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Posted on 31st January 2008Comments Off