Students discuss a video about drug and alcohol abuse and their connection to risk-taking. They answer questions on a risk factor sheet about the use of tobacco, drugs, and alcohol. They discuss long and short term goals and how not...

Students investigate the concept of how natural disasters effect the environment. They conduct research using a variety of resources. They are given a scenario that needs a defensive speech. Students take a position and defend it by...

In this space science learning exercise, students complete 5 multiple choice questions pertaining to the planets and other space bodies. This is an online interactive quiz. Prior knowledge is assumed.

Students build their knowledge and understanding of vocabulary related to space.  In this space lesson, students discuss four categories of words and phrases related to space. 

Explains the differences between asteroids and comets. Presents a chart showing a size comparison between some known asteroids and comets.

An introduction to comets, including information on their composition, origin, and importance.

Instructions for making a simulated comet nucleus from simple materials.

NOVA provides a report on comet Hale-Bopp and comet Hyakutake. Content includes discovery and observational information.

This site contains 5,161 images of the Hale-Bopp comet from 1995 to 2000. This incredible photo archive is definitely worth a visit.

NASA-sponsored coverage and research on a range of topics related to space exploration -- flying weather stations, comets, first steps on the Moon, and other space-related topics -- are presented in age-appropriate activities, lesson...

Learning exercise for students centered around Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.

This brief animated guide to the Rosetta mission allows you to see how it is going to get to the comet, and then what it will do once it arrives there.

Students groups act as aerospace engineering teams competing to create linear equations to guide space shuttles safely through obstacles generated by a modeling game in level-based rounds. Each round provides a different configuration of...

This lesson focuses on arithmetic and geometric sequences using several examples and practice exercises.

You can produce sky maps for any date and time, viewpoint or observing location. See your sky map, horizon view, or track an asteroid or comet on this highly interactive site.

This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Sheryl Swoopes, an American basketball player who won three Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards (2000, 2002, 2005) and four WNBA titles...

This site contains information about Brahe's contributions to astronomy, and also discusses his planetary model.

"The survivals and extinctions at the close of the Cretaceous are such as might be expected to result from intensely hot winds such as would be generated by extra large meteoritic impacts." This article suggests that this theory should...