Get Students Excited About SPACE!!!!

NASA's SPACE PLACE will delight kids of all ages. Teachers will find information on all aspects of space presented in a variety of formats with each approach peaking the interest of any student.

Here is information on the sun, earth, the solar system, people and technology. The images here are breathtaking! The activities cover a fairly wide range from coloring pages for the young to building a moon habitat for older students---basically something for everyone:)

Of course, there are also lots of games and puzzles which are guaranteed to keep students occupied mastering academic/content language with ease. Many of the activities involve constructing objects related to science such as the physics machine! This machine requires very little in the way of resources, but careful attention to detail is needed if the machine is to work properly. NASA FOR KIDS

Share the site with parents as well. They will enjoy exploring the solar system with their children.

Denise

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Carl Sagan's COSMOS--He Demystified the Universe For All of Us:)

Back in 1980, Dr. Carl Sagan launched this video masterpiece on the origin of the cosmos. He took the intensely academic and made it accessible for the non-scientist. Watching this series was akin to having a blindfold removed on a bright sunny day! It was truly an awesome experience searching through the cosmos from one's living room. The explanations were laymen friendly (but informative) and students from elementary through university were glued by their television sets every week waiting in high anticipation for the next episode.

In your science lesson on the solar system, you might want to include a few clips from the series to provide background knowledge for your ELLs. The visuals usually stimulate prior knowledge for them and that means that your lessons will give you the desired results:)

COSMOS

I hope you enjoy it:)

Denise

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