Planets
20 Results
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Why are Planets Round?
In this article, your students can learn why planets are round.
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What is in Space?
In this online book from NASA, your students can learn about everything that's actually out there in space like the moon and different planets.
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Search for Other Earths
In this article from National Geographic, your students can learn all about what scientists are doing in the search for Earth-like planets all over the universe.
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How Many Planets are in Our Solar System?
When were the planets first discovered? How did astronomers decide what were planets and what weren't? Who discovered the asteroid belt? In this video, your students can find out t…
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Smog on Titan Moon May Hold Ingredients For Life, New Study Says
Do your class believe life exists on other planets? In this article students will learn more about how life could exist outside of planet earth someday.
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A Puzzling Parallax
Children can do this activity to learn how scientists map planets and other things in the universe. This is a great activity to learn the scientific method!
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Geologic Landforms Seen on Aerial Photos
In this activity, your students will learn more about geologic landforms by examining aerial photos of the planets.
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Building Blocks of Planets
In this activity, your students can learn about three different stages of planet formation.
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Robots may one day head into Mars underground
In this article, your students can learn why robots may provide the best solution for exploring Mars underground.
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A Planet Made of Diamond, Twice the Size of Earth
Children can learn about a recently discovered planet made of diamonds! Read what has been found about this discovery.
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Radar reveals traces of monstrous Martian flood millions of years ago
Children will learn how new evidence that suggests that floods were a major part of Martian weather!
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Scientists Studying Moon Reflected Light Have Discovered Life on Earth
In this article students will learn how scientists 'discovered' life on Earth by looking at the moon and the possible implications of this discovery.
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Mars Rover: Opportunity
In this video students will learn all about one of the Mars Rovers and the planet it is exploring!
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Dwarf Planet Eris Is Icy Double of Pluto
In this article students will learn about a not-quite-planet very nearly identical to Pluto.
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Earth Escapes Obliteration by Comet
In this article students will gain a greater understanding of how small comets can negatively impact planet Earth.
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King of the Ice Dwarfs
In this article students will learn more about the former planet Pluto.
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Why does Saturn have Rings?
In this article students will explore some of the theories about what Saturn's rings are made of and how they came to be.
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Planet X-treme Weather
In this article students will learn about the weather on other planets and moons in our Solar System.
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How Comets In Distant Solar Systems Could Deliver Oceans to Exoplanets
In this article, your students can learn about how newborn planets might get water.
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Cosmic Journeys: The Search For Earth-Like Planets
The search for Earth-like planets is reaching a fever-pitch. Does the evidence so far help shed light on the ancient question: Is the galaxy filled with life, or is Earth just a beaut…
