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Discovery School board games

06-Jan-08

Discovery School offers many ideas to make your own board games. Classroom Planetarium–Astronomy/Space lesson plan (grades K-5) Students learn about the relationship of the nine planets in our solar system to the sun by creating a three-dimensional representation. They find out the planets’ relative distance from the sun and their approximate size in relation to [...]

National Museum of the United States Air Force Homeschool Day

01-Jan-08

The National Museum of the USAF located near Dayton, Ohio, offers two special Home School Days every year — once in the spring and once in the fall. Programming changes each year, with the fall program being a repeat of the previous spring program. Dates for 2008 are: April 7, 2008 and September 29, 2008. [...]

My Favorite Martian

31-Dec-07

Free downloadable (pdf) poster of Earth/Mars Comparison. I tried to fill out the form to have a poster sent to us, but kept getting error messages. However – you can still download it yourself for free. Check out the latest on the Mars Exploration Rover Mission. Also see the sidebar for kids and educators pages. [...]

The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

31-Dec-07

The prototype for all science fiction, H. G. Wells’s fantastic novel will not let you out of its grip as it narrates the invasion of Earth by ruthless Martians. In 1938, a radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds—done in the style of a news broadcast—panicked the listening public. http://www.bartleby.com/1002/ War of the Worlds [...]




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