Thank you all for the wonderful input. @Maureen I've added the mythology for the Planet Project since most of the planets/ moons have names based on Greek/ Roman myths. It is to link multiple curriculum (LA, World Hist) and previous knowledge. Also, it is a nice way to incorporate world culture and history of science perspective. I am moving toward the idea of paired presentation, although the i...

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Thank you for sharing all the links that you gave. I've been teaching 8th Grade Earth Science for over 5 years now and love to have novel interactive ways to share the information to my students. Specially now that the students find things that interactive and web based material to be more agreeable to their taste. I also try to scour though science site from universities since they usually use in...

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Thank you for your timely responses. I was able to use the interactive activities on various lessons. I used the NASA "Gravity Assist" activity as an extension for my lesson on rockets and space exploration. It was very helpful when I was explaining to the students about deep space exploration like the Voyager Twins Spacecraft. The McGrawHill and the Colorado activities were identical with the Col...

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