In Extreme Planets Q&amp;A
Check out cool Smithsonian websites and exhibits throughout the book
Meet a Smithsonian Specialist 
See fabulous close-up photos
Read extremely fun facts about planets

Extreme Planets Q&A (Smithsonian Q & a Series)

Children's Books

Carson, Mary Kay

Science, Nature & How It Works

Harpercollins

Some planets are extremely big—so huge that 1,300 Earths could fit inside one. Some planets are extremely little—smaller than Earth's moon. Some planets are extremely fast—speeding through space at 104,000 miles an hour. Some planets may not be planets at all! Extreme Planets Q&amp;A has answers to questions such as: What makes up a planet? Why is Earth the only known world where life exists? How can a planet's day actually be longer than its year? So buckle up as you blast off for an extreme voyage through the solar system, from Mercury to Neptune and beyond!

Extreme Planets Q&A (Smithsonian Q&A Series)

Collins

<div>In July of 2015, a robotic spacecraft reached Pluto after a nine-and-a-half-year journey. Explore withNew Horizons in this new-to-paperback book about the first mission to Pluto, which revealed the ice dwarf and its five moons as they had never been seen before. Images from the mission show a reddish surface covered in mountains of frozen water, moving glaciers, hints of possible ice volcanoes, and an underground ocean. Pluto is geologically alive and changing! This addition to the Scientists in the Field series goes where no person or spacecraft has ever gone before. Journey with the team of scientists as they buildNew Horizons, fly it across the solar system, and make new discoveries about a world three billion miles away.</div>

Mission to Pluto: The First Visit to an Ice Dwarf and the Kuiper Belt (Scientists in the Field)

Animals

Clarion Books

<div>In the Arizona desert, scientists conduct studies and experiments aimed to help us better understand our environment and what sort of things are happening to it due to climate change. The location is Biosphere 2, an immense structure that contains a replica ocean, savannah, and rainforest, among other Earth biomes. It's a unique take on the Scientists in the Field mission statement -- in this case, the lab is a replica that allows the scientists to conduct large-scale experimentsthat would otherwise be impossible.</div>

Inside Biosphere 2: Earth Science Under Glass (Scientists in the Field)

In this addition to the critically acclaimed Scientist in the Field series, scientist Robin Tanamachi and her team are trying to save countless lives across America’s heartland, chasing one tornado at a time. 
Robin Tanamachi has been captivated by tornadoes and extreme weather her entire life. When she realized people researched weather for a job, she was hooked. 
She now studies tornadogenesis, or how tornadoes form, and what causes them to get weaker versus strengthen. For her, driving around in a Doppler radar truck aiming towards storms is a normal day in the office. The data she collects is then modeled and studied on computers—with math, physics, and computer science working hand in hand with meteorology. 
At the end of the day, knowing exactly how, when, and where these violent storms happen can give more warning time for everyone involved.

The Tornado Scientist: Seeing Inside Severe Storms (Scientists in the Field)

Biographies

Build students’ Internet skills as they expand their knowledge of stars, moons, planets, space exploration, and more. This book offers more than 100 space Web sites, plus reproducible graphic organizers that help students record the information they gather. Using this information, students build a star life-cycle mobile, write their own myth about a constellation, create travel brochures of the planets, complete a timeline of historic space events, and more! For use with Grades 3-6.

Quick & Easy Internet Activities for the One-Computer Classroom: Space: 20 Fun, Web-based Activities With Reproducible Graphic Organizers That Enable ... the Very Latest Information On Their Own!

Computers & Technology

Teaching Resources

20 Fun, Web-based Activities With Reproducible Graphic Organizers That Enable Kids to Learn the Very Latest Information‹On Their Own!Great for Independent LearningStudents develop Internet research skills as they gather and interpret weather data online.

Weather: Quick & Easy Internet Activities for the One-Computer Classroom

Education & Reference

Scholastic Teaching Resources

These ready-to-go, reproducible journals combine simple hands-on experiments with thought-provoking prompts that encourage kids to learn and write about science. Students dissect seeds, build a model of an eclipse, read a weather map, discover what makes sounds, and much more. A great way to meet the National Science Education Content Standards! For use with Grades 3-6.

Easy Science Activity Journals, Grades 3-6

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Gross Body Facts

scholastic

The Bat Scientists (Scientists in the Field)

“Rich with fascinating information and photographs.”—Horn Book Dr. Merlin Tuttle is fascinated by bats, with good reason. Bats fly the night skies the world over, but are the least studied of all mammals. As the major predator of night-flying insects, bats eat many pests. But bats are facing many problems, including a scary new disease. White-nose syndrome is killing millions of bats in North America. Dr. Tuttle and his fellow bat scientists are on the front line of the fight to save their beloved bats. Find more about this series at www.sciencemeetsadventure.com.

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