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First, do typing for 10 minutes:
Then, I will be calling students back to answer questions on this VoiceThread that has ideas about astronomy. 
then you can do these activities:
Star Light Star Bright Menu of Activities
ForgeFX – Eclipses and Moon Phases Simulation in 3D.
the Sun in Motion – gary palmer
NASA – What Is the Space Shuttle?
Why isn’t there life on other planet that we know of?Is there other humans on other planets too?
Why is the air on Mars thin?
Astor means star, so astronaut means star sailor.
why is there a ring around saturn
The sun isn’t the biggest star, in fact the sun is an average sized star.
I do not think there is life on other planets because there is no air on other planets.
Yes the sun is the appear biggest star because it is the closes to us .
THE planet goes around the sun so the plants could get heat.
Jupiter is the biggest planet because it is made out of gas. Pluto is not a planet any more because it didn’t follow the rules.
The sun is not the biggest star, it’s just the nearest star.
So they can get heat and day.
The air in Mars is thin because there atmosphere is small and they have a little gravity , so some of the gravity disappeared.
The sun is the biggest because it have it own gravity to turn big.
The Sun is not the biggest star it is the biggest star near us.
astronomy is important because it is the earth we need the earth or else we will die because it rotates.
Why are be by the sun but why don’t people don’t fly out of the sky.
the stars are made out of gas.
I think that planets go around the sun because we need light and energy. I also think we do it makes summer.So that is my answer for the question: why do we go around the sun?.
Jupiter is the biggest planet because it is a gas planet, thats why Jupiter is so big, and Pluto is no longer a planet because Pluto does not follow the rules that a real planets supposed to do.
the sun was made buy gas and fire
The planets go around the sun because the sun gravity pulls the planets around it.
the sun is the apperars biggest close to us
Pluto is not a planet because it is too small.What make everything move around the earth is because the gravity and what keeps us from floating is the gravity.The best part is why is Mars the reddish planet.Why does Mars all year along always has a pink sky and changes each season.Can there be life on other planet because there is life on this planet we are on is called earth.
Jupiter is the biggest planet because it has more mass.Pluto is not a planet because it did not follow the rules.
what is with these stupid links.put something that I like.
I watter have a better teacher.
i wonder why is the earth tight.
I learned about how people looks into the sky how its made out of.
I learned how to burn up a astronaut then he died.