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ScienceWiz(R) Online Discovery Planets includes a digital flip book that provides a grand tour of the solar system. It integrates hands-on projects and celestial observations with breathtaking online materials. These include videos, simulations, Interactive 3D models and and deep dives into the centers of the gas and ice giants. Watch an incredible 4K video of the actual surface of Mars, composited from data captured by NASA's Mars rovers. This is our first ever high resolution view of another world! Listen to the profound and stunning video narration of Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot. Take a deep dive into Saturn's interior to watch gigantic diamond ice burgs float in a liquid diamond sea. Learn about the liquid oceans found to be buried underground on numerous moons and even beneath the frozen surface of the dwarf planet Pluto. Do some of these mineral rich oceans harbor life? The race is on to find out. The word planet means wandering star. Five of these wandering stars are visible to the naked eye and were known to the ancients. These wandering stars, did not travel across the night sky in lock-step with all the other visible stars. Their paths were peculiar and unique. The ancients did not know that these wandering stars were other worlds, but we do. Children and adults alike can now pinpoint these wandering stars themselves using the digital app provided. Just point the digital phone at the night sky in your neighborhood and you can eye-ball and distinguish each planet from among the multitude of stars. Then point a pair of strong binoculars or a telescope to get a better view. Let the tour begin! PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES INCLUDE: Locating the five planets with the naked eye: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn using a digital app Making a basic telescope (materials included). Taking a multi-dimensional tour of our Solar System online Spinning and exploring the surface features of each planet using 3D models Watching a 4K video of the surface of Mars and see what NASA's rovers saw Constructing the planets to scale Discovering why Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet Drawing circles and ellipses for yourself (The planets travel around the Sun in elliptical orbits.) Understand what makes an ellipse different from a circle Laying out the Solar System to scale Discover which planet could actually float in water. Learn about the asteroid belts Discover how most comets actually hide out in the Oort Cloud Discover amazing facts about the MOST studied meteorite on the planet Mankind's ever evolving knowledge of the Solar System is explored through videos, interactive play and simulations. Learn how human knowledge of the cycles (day-night, monthly and yearly) have been observed and recorded for thousands of years. These ongoing observations have led to our current understanding of the Solar System and our place among the stars. The kit includes a handle box for easy storage and transport, as well as materials for each project.

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Penny Norman, Ph.D. earned a doctoral degree in Biophysics from U.C. Berkeley. She became involved with the development of primary grade science materials through volunteer work, which she began as her own children started school. During this process she became deeply concerned about the limited exposure of elementary age students to the physical sciences. Her concern has translated into a 20 year effort to test and revamp science materials for the primary grades. Her work with children developed into a product line initially under the auspices of grants from the National Science Foundation and the Franklin Foundation. Her published titles reflect Dr. Norman's extensive testing and involvement with children and teachers and her love and commitment to both. Ann Einstein, M.A.T. from George Washington University in Washington D.C., was a teacher in the Berkeley Unified School District. She has been involved with the education of children for most of her adult career as a director of early childhood education programs, as a teacher in gifted and talented programs and most recently as an elementary education teacher. She has been an editor of the ScienceWiz(TM) Books since 1994 when she edited the ElectroWiz(TM) Electricity book. Ann brings a clarity of mind and the capacity to see things through a child's eyes to the editing process. To quote an Einstein of an earlier generation: We never cease to stand like curious children before the great Mystery into which we were born. - Albert Einstein

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