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Nasa: Sci Jinks: Satellite Controller

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out if you may want a career as a satellite controller. Read to find out what it takes and how to become a satellite controller.
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Sci Jinks: What Is Scientific Method?

For Students 2nd - 8th
This resource provides the seven steps of the scientific method which can be used as an introduction or review.
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Sci Jinks: Grow Snow Crystals

For Students 3rd - 8th
Discover how snowflakes are created. Use this interactive to recognize the role temperature plays in the formation of snow crystals.
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Sci Jinks: How Do Snowflakes Form?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Is it true that no two snowflakes are alike? Take a look at the details that make up a snowflake to find out if the statement holds any truth.
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Sci Jinks: Why Does the Sun Have Temper Tantrums?

For Students 3rd - 8th
The sun is a huge volatile object in the sky. Find out what makes it so unpredictable.
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Nasa: Sci Jinks: How Does Weather on the Sun Affect Us?

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover how the weather on the sun can affect things that happen here on the Earth.
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Sci Jinks: Storm Surge

For Students 3rd - 8th
Could storm surge actually be worse than a hurricane? Find out the details.
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Sci Jinks: Tidal Curiosities

For Students 3rd - 8th
Understand where tides come from. This brief article illustrates and describes the science behind high and low tides as well as why some places experience only one high and low in a twenty-four hour period.
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Sci Jinks: What Causes Tides?

For Students 3rd - 8th
How do ocean tides work? What causes them? Find out with this resource.
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Nasa: Sci Jinks: Tornado!

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how tornadoes form and find out if you live in Tornado Alley.
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Sci Jinks: Tornado Simulator

For Students 3rd - 8th
Utilizing this interactive, students will manipulate the funnel's width and the core pressure difference will illustrate how tornadoes work.
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Sci Jinks: What's the Difference Between Weather and Climate?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Weather and climate may be lumped together when meteorologists talk about them, but they are two different things. This brief article identifies how to differentiate the two.
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Nasa: Sci Jinks: How Did Earth's Atmosphere Form?

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover how the Earth's atmosphere has evolved over time. Find out why the current atmosphere is good for living organisms.
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Scijinks: It's All About Weather

For Students 3rd - 8th
Scijinks offers interactive activities covering weather. Find out how weathermen predict the weather, write a fun book about weather, pick a science project, and much more.
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Scijinks: Seasons

For Students 3rd - 9th
An explanation about the rotation of the Earth and why the Earth has seasons.
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Nasa: Mission: Science: Electromagnetic Spectrum: Infrared Waves

For Students 9th - 10th
Infrared light lies between the visible and microwave portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Infrared light has a range of wavelengths, just like visible light has wavelengths that range from red light to violet.
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Nasa: Mission Archives: Pioneer Project

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the home page of NASA's Pioneer Project. Content includes a general overview of the probes' missions, news, and history.
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Nasa: The Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory

For Students 9th - 10th
The Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory works to help scientists predict and better understand solar storms caused by coronal mass ejections. These powerful storms can disrupt phone signals, GPS, and services that rely on satelites....
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Nasa: Space Place: Solar System Switch a Roo

For Students 3rd - 8th
Play this creative puzzle game where the player views a solar system object that is all mixed-up. Try and find the matching parts of the photograph, and learn about the solar system in the process.
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Nasa: Space Place: Unscramble the Clouds

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this slider picture puzzle, try and put the pieces in the correct place to see all types of different clouds.
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Nasa: Space Place: All About Comets

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about comets: Where do comets come from? What brings comets near Earth? What makes comets look fuzzy? What do comets look like up close? What's inside a comet? Why do comets have tails?
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Nasa: The Space Place: The Three Little Piggy Back Satellites

For Students 3rd - 5th
This site from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration allows one to read the "Three Little Piggy-back Satellites," and then play the Nanosat Flingman game. [Requires Shockwave]
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Nasa: The Space Place: Match Light Faces With Heat Faces

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration provides information on the subject. "An infrared camera sees heat, rather than light. Can you match up the face in the infrared image with the same face in visible light?"
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Nasa: Shuttle Carrier Aircraft

For Students 9th - 10th
Image of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) as seen at Kennedy Space Center in Florida in April, 2012. The aircraft was assigned to shuttle Discovery.