New Mars Education Resources!!

• "Live from Mars" from Passport to Knowledge. Television and Internet-based learning project. Connect kids live and in real time with the Mars missions through a series of televised events (on PBS and NASA-TV) Nov. 1996 -- Nov. 1997. Inexpensive teacher kits available, including poster. Next broadcast is April 24,1997. See http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/mars/ or write: Passport to Knowledge, PO Box 1502, Summit, NJ 07902-1502, USA.

• Reaching for the Red Planet, Grade 4-6 integrated Mars colonization curriculum project by Mary Urquhart, University of Colorado at Boulder. Download from http://lyra.colorado.edu/sbo/mary/redplanet.html.

• Exploring Planets from the Classroom, from Hawaii's NASA Space Grant Consortium. More than 25 hands-on science activities provided in classroom-ready pages. Activities explore geology, earth, and planetary sciences. See http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/SPACEGRANT/class_acts/.

• Mars mission T-shirts, mugs, pins, etc. For list, contact: Employees Recreation Club, MS 114-104, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109.

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