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NASA

Nasa: Asteroids: Overview: Ancient Space Rubble

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive look at asteroids, with many useful facts, photos, and related links. Provides a detailed account of how asteroids get their names and a timeline of significant dates.
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Nine Planets

The Nine Planets: Comets

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed description of comets, their distinct parts, and the known comets in our solar system. Links are also provided for additional information on related subjects.
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Teachers TryScience

Teachers Try Science: Comet Cratering

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use marbles to discover how comets and asteroids make impact craters. This hands-on experiment is easy to do and gives you many variations to try. Included are links to additional information.
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Read Works

Read Works: Asteroid Attack!

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about asteroids. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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PBS

Nova: Doomsday Asteroid Hale Bopp & Hyakutake

For Students 9th - 10th
NOVA provides a report on comet Hale-Bopp and comet Hyakutake. Content includes discovery and observational information.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Asteroids, Comets and Meteors

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief vocabulary overview describing the difference between asteroids, comets, and meteors.
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Cosmos 4 kids

Cosmos4 Kids: Solar System Details: Comets

For Students 3rd - 8th
All about comets! What are they? How do they occur? What are their effects in the solar system? The brief, easy to understand text make this site most suitable for the younger researcher.
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Zoom Astronomy: All About Space

For Students 3rd - 8th
A fantastic collection of information about the solar system. Includes information on all of the planets, the moon, the sun, asteroids, comets, meteoroids, and stars. Also find puzzles, a dictionary, quizzes, classroom activities, and...
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NASA

Nasa: Our Solar System Lithograph Set

For Students 9th - 10th
View a lithograph set that includes pictures and brief descriptions of planets, sun, asteroids, comets, meteors, and meteorites. While viewing the lithograph learn important dates and interesting facts about our solar system.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Asteroids, Meteoroids, and Comets

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students will compare and contrast asteroids, meteoroids, and comets. They will also learn about their origins. Assessment questions are included.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Antarctica/ What Are the Different Parts of the Universe?

For Students 4th - 6th
In this lesson, students learn about objects in the universe, including constellations, planets, meteors, asteroids, and comets.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Asteriods, Comets and Meteriods

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students will learn basic facts about Asteroids, Comets and Meteoroids.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Linear Equations Game

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students groups act as aerospace engineering teams competing to create linear equations to guide space shuttles safely through obstacles generated by a modeling game in level-based rounds. Each round provides a different configuration of...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Our Solar System

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive tutorial will take students on a tour of our solar system. Students begin near the Sun with the really hot planets of Mercury and Venus. They will learn about Mars, probably the first planet that humans will visit. Next...
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NASA

Nasa: Solar System

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a general overview of all the planets in the solar system, as well as the sun, various comets and asteroids, the deep space network, and the latest solar system news.
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Other

Space weather.com

For Students 9th - 10th
Want to know what the current weather conditions are in space? Find everything here you may want to know about the latest solar flares, sunspots, asteroids and more. Site also includes essential web links to quench any user's thirst for...
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NASA

Nasa Space Science Data Archive: Galileo Project Information

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the homepage of all of the archived information about and from the Galileo Mission. Included is data from the flybys of Venus, Earth, Moon, and Asteroids Gaspra and Ida, as well as the current data from Jupiter and its moons. See...
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Virginia Tech

Virginia Polytechnic Institute: Greenhouse Dinosaur Extinction Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
This comprehensive page discusses the Asteroid Impact vs. Volcano-Greenhouse dinosaur extinction debate. It was written by paleontologist, professor, and scientist Dr. Dewey McLean.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Earth Impact

For Teachers 7th - 9th
This activity poses the question: What would happen if a meteor or comet impacted Earth? Students simulate an impact in a container of sand using various-sized rocks, all while measuring, recording and graphing results and conclusions....
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NASA

Nasa: What Is a Planet?

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson teaches students about the characteristics of planets, comets, asteroids, and trans-Neptunian objects. After learning about these different things, students then are to debate about a new object that is found in space.
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Other

Kid Power: Astronomy for Kids

For Students 3rd - 5th
Young children can find facts about the Solar System, the Sun, meteorites, stars, galaxies, planets, our moon, comets, asteroids, and space exploration. Pages offer clear photos and bullet-point information, which is easy to read and...
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NASA

Nasa: Hubble Observations Shed Light on Jupiter Impact

For Students 9th - 10th
Scientists continue to learn from their observations long after the largest collision in history was recorded. Was Comet SL-9 actually an asteroid? What were the dark impact clouds made of? What were the effects on Jupiter's magnetic field?
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Seychelles: What Is the Solar System?

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this lesson, students learn about the planets, their moons, asteroids, comets, and dwarf planets in our solar system.
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Space Telescope Science Institute

Hubble Site: Solar System Images

For Students 9th - 10th
A listing of clickable images of objects in the Solar System from the Hubble telescope that includes the following: Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Jupiter's satellites, Saturn, Saturn's rings and satellites, Uranus, Uranus' rings and satellites,...

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