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New Lesson Plan: The Universe: An Introduction The lessons in this issue of Smithsonian in Your Classroom address astronomical questions by first asking the students. The class works together to arrange pictures from space according to the students’ best ideas of size, distance, and age. This active introduction to the cosmos can be a pre-assessment for a unit on space science. In a follow-up modeling exercise, relationships in space are brought down to a scale of two inches.
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