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	Look at the Recommended Book List full of fun exciting fiction stories, classic science fiction novels and reference books.
	For all up and coming news in the space realm, check out these Magazines!
	Some fun activities or projects to do on the solar system
	Find out about NASA's teacher's resources and visit their page
	Some other interesting facts to tell  your students

Recommended Book List
Here's a list of great fiction books recommended to stimulate your kids' imagination and interest in the solar system:

Elementary school:

Daniel Pinkwater series (here are some titles, there are too many to put all of them): He's a funny and inventive writer with a little odd stories. They are imaginative and will get your kids to have bigger imaginations. Fat Men in Space by Daniel Pinkwater This funny adventure book, will have your kids squealing! It's very imaginative and soon they'll be wanting radio teeth. It also encourages eating healthy foods because all the fat men from space have eaten it all! Ned Feldman, Space Pirate Mush, a Dog from Space Guys from Space Spaceburger Alan Mendelshon, the Boy from Mars

The Fallen Spaceman by Lee Harding

Magic School Bus Goes to Space by Joanne Cole An informative and yet somewhat adventurous book, on the journeys of Mrs. Frizzle's class through the solar system.

Middle school:

Douglas Adams Series A very fun and exciting series, starting from the Earth being blown-up, to custom ordered planet to mice doing experiments on people and dophins being extraterrestials, and before the earth is they give everyone a perfectly crafted glass  bowl that says "So long, thanks for the fish." Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Bruce Coville Series My Teacher is an Alien by Bruce Coville. Another great series of books, it will stimulate any reader's imagination and think twice about TV (TV was planted on Earth to slow the pace of humans getting far into space by melting the kids' brains) and about how humans would match up in a moral hygiene test. My Teacher Fried my Brains My Teacher Glows in the Dark My Teacher Flunked the Planet

High School:

	2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke A classic science fiction book, one of the firsts, still has a great plot. This book was also made into a movie, another classic.
	The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe The "right stuff" are the qualities that make a man the best, and for astronauts they had to have all the "right stuff". Competition between countries in the race for space, between the people, between airplane pilots and between the astronauts compete throughout this book.
	The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

Magazines

Discovery: The World of Science published by Walt Disney Magazine Publishing Group, Inc. Discovery is a easy to understand, intelligent magazine, that it can explain tough scientific concepts to the layman whom the magazine was intended for. Website at: http://www.discover.com/

	Astronomy: published by Kamback Publishing Co. Being a higher level magazine, Astronomy,  is those who have studied astronomy or make it their hobbie to watch the sky. Website at: http://www.astronomy.com
	Sky and Telescope: published by Sky Publishing Corporation. Another higher level astronomy magazine, for those who watch the sky as a hobbie and have a telescope and an interest already in the stars. Website at: http://www.skypub.com

Activities

	Send your student's names to Mars along with the Mars 2001 Lander.  To do this visit this site: http://spacekids.hq.nasa.gov/2001
	Read and analyze the Kennedy speech on the goal to put a man on the moon before the Soviets. Then talk about the race for space and the Red Scare. Visit this web page to get the entire text. http://www.cs.umb.edu/jfklibrary/j052561.htm

Teacher Resources at NASA

The NASA Educators webpage at :http://education.nasa.gov/educators.html   is a great place to start.

Fun Facts

Get the facts about where all the Astronauts, and where they   went to school, how much time they were in space, who got medals and even their rank in the Scouts! Visit the NASA Archives: http://38.201.67.77/shuttle/archives/sts-76/factshts/astrofct/group.html

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