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As we develop and evaluate each of our education products, we engage scientists, K-12 teachers, and experts in constructivist learning theory. This helps to ensure scientific accuracy, pedagogical soundness, and practicality of use in the classroom.

Kinesthetic Astronomy

Kinesthetic Astronomy involves the teaching of basic astronomical concepts through choreographed bodily movements and positions that provide educational sensory experiences.

Saturn Educator Guide

* * * NASA's Cassini Mission to Saturn is the most ambitious deep space mission ever. The Saturn Educator Guide enables this extraordinary mission to become a real-world motivational context for learning standards-based science in grades 5-8.

Solarscapes: Sunspots and Rotation

* * * You and your middle-school students will open up the Sun and explore phenomena most people have never seen before. Your students will calculate the period of the solar cycle and predict its shapes, and calculate the rotation period of the Sun.



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