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What is a Planet?
Students learn about the characteristics of planets, comets, asteroids, and trans-Neptunian objects through a classification activity. Students can then apply what they have learned by participating in a formal debate about a solar system object discovered by the New Horizons spacecraft and by defining the term ‘planet.’
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Earth Matters Classification activities that will lead students from simple sorting of familiar objects to classifying materials into liquids, gases, and solids.
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Stellar Illumination
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Who Is King of the Ice Dwarfs?
Visit New Horizons at NASA's Space Place:
spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/pluto/index.shtml
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New Horizons Space Academy
The "Space Academy" series - launched in 2000 by The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Comcast Cable and The Discovery Channel - takes students behind the scenes of actual space missions and introduces them to engineers and scientists working on some of NASA's most exciting projects.
To learn more about Space Academy visit: www.spaceacademy.jhuapl.edu.
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New Horizons Growth Chart
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