Sub-Orbital Space Flights & Satellite Exploration
From the acclaimed Science Screen Report DVD series, provided to schools nationwide free of charge. PLUTO, FARTHEST PLANET & COMET, VISITORS FROM SPACE (from the Space Files series from York Films of London). Since its discovery in 1930, astronomers have been debating the status of the tiny world at the farthest reaches of our solar system—Pluto. In this program, students are given a firsthand look at the scientific process that initially classified Pluto as a planet and then reclassified it …
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From the acclaimed Science Screen Report DVD series, provided to schools nationwide free of charge. PLUTO, FARTHEST PLANET & COMET, VISITORS FROM SPACE (from the Space Files series from York Films of London). Since its discovery in 1930, astronomers have been debating the status of the tiny world at the farthest reaches of our solar system—Pluto. In this program, students are given a firsthand look at the scientific process that initially classified Pluto as a planet and then reclassified it …
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Movie camp mahem… these kids wrote, directed and starred in a great feature film! … movie action adventure comedy funny original awesome cool kids film camp great super non-stop fun story “mad scientist” farmer crazy meteor comet plague virus sickness science police detective judge ridiculous sweeeet sweet sweeet sweeeeeet “science fiction” “doctor who” cliffhanger
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For Grades 2-6. From the acclaimed Science Screen Report DVD series, provided to schools nationwide free of charge since 1970. Second largest of the gas planets, Saturn rules a dazzling domain. Its famous rings are billions of moon-lets that range from the size of tanks to grains of dust. The planet is so light it would float in water, and its largest moon, Titan, is bigger than Mercury. Uranus is twice as far from the Sun as Saturn, while Neptune is so distant it takes 165 years to orbit …
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For grades 2-5. From the acclaimed Science Screen Report DVD series, provided to schools nationwide free of charge since 1970. Baked and irradiated, Mercury is a cratered world; pock-marked by impactors that rained from space during the early development of our Solar System. With double sunrises, its day is twice as long as its year. Mercurys orbit is now perpetually shadowed from the scorching Sun; scientists think there may be ice deposited by comets. In contrast, the un-Earthly Venus is a …
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From the acclaimed Science Screen Report DVD series, provided to schools nationwide free of charge since 1970. Between Mars and Jupiter is the asteroid belt. Every so often, asteroids collide and tumble towards the Sun. If they pass Mars, they can be drawn towards Earth, sometimes colliding. Sixty-five million years ago an asteroid impact may have been the cause of the climate change that killed the dinosaurs. Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system. It is a ball of gas with no …
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From the acclaimed Science Screen Report DVD series, provided to schools nationwide free of charge since 1970. 7Saturn, Lord of the Rings& Outer Gas Giants, Uranus & Neptune Second largest of the gas planets, Saturn rules a dazzling domain. Its famous rings are billions of moon-lets that range from the size of tanks to grains of dust. The planet is so light it would float in water, and its largest moon, Titan, is bigger than Mercury. Uranus is twice as far from the Sun as Saturn, while …
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From the acclaimed Science Screen Report DVD series, provided to schools nationwide free of charge since 1970. Between Mars and Jupiter is the asteroid belt. Every so often, asteroids collide and tumble towards the Sun. If they pass Mars, they can be drawn towards Earth, sometimes colliding. Sixty-five million years ago an asteroid impact may have been the cause of the climate change that killed the dinosaurs. Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system. It is a ball of gas with no …
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ZERO TO ZILLIONS, THEORY OF THE BIG BANG & BLACK HOLES, COSMIC VANISHING ACTS We view a scientific speculation about how the Universe grew from an infinitesimal speck to create matter, radiation, time and space. In the first trillion-trillion-trillionth of a second, the cosmos grew a hundred million times to less than the size of an atom. Then, in another instant, the Universe was the size of a galaxy. Now, billions of years later and strung along vast filaments, our Universe has some 50 …
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PLUTO, FARTHEST PLANET & COMET, VISITORS FROM SPACE (from the acclaimed Space Files series from York Films of London). Since its discovery in 1930, astronomers have been debating the status of the tiny world at the farthest reaches of our solar system—Pluto. In this program, students are given a firsthand look at the scientific process that initially classified Pluto as a planet and then reclassified it in 2006 as a Dwarf Planet. Also, students will also learn about comets, objects that …
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