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This is an activity (located on page 131 of the PDF) related to sleep and circadian rhythms as well as space travel.

In this space science activity, learners explore transits and the conditions when a transit may be seen.

Use this model to demonstrate the goal of NASA's Kepler Mission: to find extrasolar planets through the transit method.

In this physics activity, learners recreate Galileo's famous experiment, in which he dropped a heavy weight and a light weight from the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa to show that both weights fall

In this fun and simple hands-on astronomy activity, learners construct a model of our place in the Milky Way Galaxy and the distribution of stars, with a quarter and some birdseed.

This is a classic exercise for visualizing the scale of the Solar System.

In this activity, learners explore how light and dark colored objects absorb the Sun's radiations at different rates.