This is a spectacular and informative guide to the mysteries beyond Earth and the history of space exploration, including original photography of spacecraft, astronauts, satellites and planets.
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Geography Activities for Middle School

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Geography Activities for Middle School

Help students explore the world and develop their geography knowledge with this packet of geography activities for middl...

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Test Prep Strategies and Practice for Students

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Test Prep Strategies, Tools, and Practice Questions

Help set your students up for academic success with this packet of test-taking tips, test preparation strategies, and pr...

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Exit Tickets for Middle School Classrooms

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Exit Tickets for Middle School Classrooms

Exit tickets are a form of assessment that are often used informally to assess how well students grasped a lesson, what ...

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Eyewitness: Astronomy

Get an in-depth, comprehensive look at astronomy with a unique integration of words and pictures.

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History of the Leonid Meteor Showers

902 AD - the first annecdotal account In 868 AD, a yet undiscovered comet crossed the Earth's orbit on the inside for th...

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Neptune Facts and Figures

Neptune, named for an ancient Roman sea god, is a stormy blue planet about 30 times farther from the Sun than Earth.

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New Planetary System

New planet has a mass 45 times that of Earth by Liz OlsonIn 2007, scientists announced that they found five planets circ...

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Sedna Debuts, Rattling Poor Pluto

Artist's rendition of the planetoid Sedna On March 15, 2004, astronomers confirmed the discovery of the most distant obj...

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The Asteroids

Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter are an estimated 30,000 pieces of rocky debris, known collectively as the asteroi...

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