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In this activity, learners create their own constellations and star patterns and write a short, descriptive story explaining the significance of their star pattern/constellation.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 6 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners make a flip book that shows the progression of two solar events on reversible sides of the flip book.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 11 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this two-part activity, learners map a navigation plan to get from Earth to Mars and back. In activity one, learners represent the orbital paths of Earth through dance and dramatic movement.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners make flipbooks of drawings showing the progression of a Total Solar Eclipse.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 6 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners craft their own model of a comet on a stick to make it fly around the room.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners build a paper model of the spacecraft and photometer (telescope) used during NASA's Kepler Mission.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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Using information from the My Place in Space lithograph, learners write and/or draw a postcard to friends and family as if they had gone beyond the interstellar boundary of our Solar System, into the

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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In this pencil and paper activity, learners work in pairs and simulate how astronomical spacecraft and computers create images of objects in space.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this "game," learners explore and relate the evolution of stars to a Navajo creation story. The story is written on a series of cards, which are laid on a table as the story is told.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - adult 30 to 45 minutes