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Find out about the Big Bang and try a timeline challenge.
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Join an alien on a journey through our Solar System.
Website 3
Visit NASA's kids' website for games, activities and the latest space news.
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Explore a virtual home to find items that NASA inspired or helped improve.
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More space games, animations, projects and facts.
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Build the Milky Way, whip up a batch of comets or see what's happening in the night sky. (Choose an activity, for example "Galaxies Galore…" or "Comets", and for night sky information click on "Tonight's Sky".)
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Browse incredible pictures of planets, stars and galaxies taken by the Hubble space telescope.
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Find hundreds of facts about space.
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Meet some space scientists and find out why Pluto isn't a planet any more and why the Moon doesn't fall down.
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Take a guided tour of the ISS with an astronaut.
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Add a module to the ISS - and other fun activities!
To try the module activity, click on "Mission Game 4".
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Learn how to spot familiar constellations with an online tutorial. (Click on "A Guide to Star Hopping".)
Website 13
Investigate space with lots of online activities, quizzes and ideas for things to make and do. (Scroll down and click on topics that interest you.)
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Katie Daynes has written oodles of books for Usborne, from lifting the flaps on germs and poo, through things to spot in the sea and at school, to the life stories of Nelson Mandela and Marie Antoinette. She wrote My First Chess Book after being taught by her son, Joe Birks, who became the British Under 9 Chess Champion in 2017. She now lives in Yorkshire with her architect husband, two inquisitive children and a hamster called Toffee. When she’s not writing books, Katie likes walking on the blustery moors, meeting friends for coffee and playing competitive board games.
Helps young readers explore the furthest reaches of our universe, learning how it began and our place among the stars.
Warwick Books Newsletter
Fun comic-style illustrations and flaps to lift and open make this internet-linked title interactive and informative.
TBK Magazine
A colourful jaunt through the Universe, life, matter, elements and experimentation.
The Irish Times
The snippets of information on each flap encourage children to delve deeper. With over 50 embedded flaps to lift, this sturdy board book will provide many hours of happy and informative browsing.
Parents in Touch
This book is a keeper and one that can be returned to time and time again. Every time we read it, I also learn something new!
Toppsta Reader Review
Another fantastic lift-the-flap book from Usborne. This book contains over 50 flaps for children to explore. The information is presented is both in depth and short making it engaging but not daunting. Each set of double pages contains one topic, making it a great book to dip in and out of.
Toppsta Reader Review
A really good book for children that are learning about space.
Nicky, 20th November 2016
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