On the SPACEWATCH...
Join SPACE.com correspondent Dave Brody as he spends the night on Kitt Peak with the SPACEWATCH Project stalking the flying mega-mountains that could destroy us...or save us. Eleven experts will tell you how...
Comet Hunters/ Asteroid Seekers Classroom Edition takes you and your students on a space voyage of discovery. You will learn the differences and similarities between comets and asteroids, as well as the promises and threats they hold. Hear what the experts have to say about the science of comets and asteroids. Learn the good and bad about the past, present and future of the solar system's smallest members.
The 2005 Telly Award Winner for Education Video, this DVD comes complete with a teaching guide full of discussion questions, cross-curricular activities and correlations to national science standards. It is a wonderful educational resource that will inspire and excite your students about space science.
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Starry Night Comet Hunters/Asteroid Seekers starts with an engaging session with Dr. Joe Montali at Kitt Peak. In a short (5-minute) segment, Montali describes the "Spacewatch" program in which scientists search for near-Earth objects in the solar system. Students and teachers who want to tackle this subject in more depth can see a bonus section in which Montali puts in an all-night session, discovering a comet as he works.
Other segments explain current understanding of the origins, composition, and effects of comets and asteroids on the Earth. Students will learn about the discovery of the comet Shoemaker-Levy and see the amazing images of its impact on Jupiter's cloud tops in 1994.
Suitable for study by an entire class or for individual and small-group research, Comet Hunters/Asteroid Seekers will be a valuable resource for classroom instruction and student research.
Teaching Guide includes:
* Strategies for whole-class or individual instruction
* Discussion questions that develop science process skills: initiating and planning; analyzing and interpreting; performing and recording; and communication and teamwork
* Cross-curricular activities with tie-ins to language arts, social studies, geography, math, biology, chemistry and physics
* Interviews with scientists and insight into careeers in science
* Curriculum correlations for United States and Canada
DVD Features:
* Comet Image Gallery
* Asteroid Image Gallery
* Attend a private Comet Tail Meteor star-party
* Chapter Index lets you navigate to nine different topics
1. Near Earth Objects
2. Comet or Asteroid?
3. Comet Origins
4. Comet Composition
5. Dangerous Comets
6. Colliding Asteroids
7. Double Impacts
8. Asteroid Mining
9. Vulcanoids
# Digital 5.1 Surround Sound and Digital Stereo
# Music by Jonn Serrie and others
# Images, and animations and predictive simulations: NASA, ESA, Maas Digital, JPL, Cornell University, Malin Space Systems, Dana Berry / Skyworks Digital. Spaceship window element by Thomas O. Miller (atomicart.com) and Ron Miller.
Total Run Time: 77 minutes
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