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Teaching Science with transmedia storytelling: Books, YouTube Videos, Short Stories, and online Jigsaw Lessons. Free science/STEM resources for late elementary and middle school. All about atoms, their creation during the evolution of the universe and their sharing among plants and animals during the history of Planet Earth. Information on the pandemic and mRNA vaccines too.

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Dinosaurs had ruled the Earth for 165 million years up until the time when a huge asteroid hit our planet 65 million years ago. In this story, the Cosmic Kids visit the time of that event and see the dinosaurs before the impact. Then they escape to a safe distance in their time ship to see the asteroid hit Earth and create a fiery storm on the surface. They return years later to see the sea life and mammals that survived the impact. But the dinosaurs were gone.

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The Cosmic Explorers are a team of seven boys and girls entered in The Race to the Big Bang contest. They are time-traveling back 13.8 billion years to the beginning of the universe. The contest requires them to create a space station 7 billion years ago. They search for a planet at that moment in time that is the right distance from its star to create a habitable temperature. Then they recreate the events that made Planet Earth habitable. But they experience an unintended consequence.

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The Cosmic Kids find out how big atoms are by making Milo's atoms the size of sand grains. Milo becomes as big as planet Earth because sand grains are about six million times bigger than atoms. #Middle School Science, #Science Videos, #Atoms, #STEM Learning, #Middle School STEM, #STEM Videos, #Science for Kids, #STEM for Children, #STEM for Girls, # FREE Science Learning

The key to what killed the dinosaurs was a strange layer of rock discovered near Gubbio Italy by Walter Alvarez. It had a composition more like a meteor than Earth-like rocks. It was 66 million years-old, and while there were dinosaur fossils above the layer there were none below. The same kind of layer was discovered all around the world. Later, a huge crater made by an asteroid 66 million years ago was discovered near Chicxulub, Mexico. All evidence pointed to the killer Asteroid.

The Cosmic Explorer boys and girls travel back in time more than100 million years to see a neutron star pair collision observed by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) in 2017. The collision produced all of the heaviest atoms in the periodic table including a quadrillion tons of gold.

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We are made of Stardust that was once in the bodies of Albert Einstein and the Last T-Rex. A story all about atoms, how they were created during the evolution of the Universe and shared among plants and animals during the history of Planet Earth. #SCIENCE #SCIENCEEDUCATION #MIDDLESCHOOLSCIENCE #ATOMS #FREEBOOKS #PLANETEARTH #STARDUST #STARDUSTMYSTERY #BIGBANG #SUPERNOVA #BLACKHOLES #PURPLEDRAGONFLYAWARD

The Race to the Big Bang is the winner of the 2021 Purple Dragonfly Children’s Book Award for Best STEM book. It is the sequel to The Stardust Mystery. The Cosmic Kids had just returned from a wonderful trip to the moon as a reward for their e finish in the Science and the Future Contest. But then their lives were altered by the Covid-19 pandemic. They find relief by inventing new pandemic pastimes. The best pastime of all is new contest called The Race to the Big Bang. #Middle School Science

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TEACHING CHILDREN SCIENCE WITH ONLINE JIGSAW STORY LESSONS. You can teach kids 8-14 years-old wonderful science stories using a jigsaw learning strategy on our FREE online webpages. Each webpage has short science stories told by our seven young characters plus videos and questions. The lessons were created with partial support from the National Science Foundation.

Seven girl and boy characters have different stories to tell and star in different videos. Links are on the History of Earth Learning Page. Students choose their character and learn what the character has discovered. The same characters meet to compare notes. Then all characters meet to put the whole story of Planet Earth together. #NationalScienceFoundation

Seven girl and boy characters have different stories to tell and star in videos. Links are on the OUR PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE Page. Students choose their character and learn what the character has discovered. The same characters meet to compare notes. Then all characters meet to put the whole story together. #Middle School Science, #Science Videos, #Atoms, #STEM Learning, #Middle School STEM, #STEM Videos, #Science for Kids, #STEM for Children, #STEM for Girls, # FREE Science Learning

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The Stardust Mystery Project has free science videos, short stories, books and lessons for late elementary and middle school students. The two books, The Stardust Mystery and Race to the Big Bang won awards in 2021 for best children's STEM books. The science is all about atoms, how they were created during the evolution of the Universe and shared by plants and animals on Earth. The project was funded in part by the National Science Foundation.

BOOKS: Illustrated time-travel adventures with nonfiction science for children 8 to 14 year old. SCIENCE VIDEOS: On the STARDUST MYSTERY YouTube Channel. SHORT STORIES: On science topics from the Big Bang to the Pandemic. TheStardustMystery.com/Educators/ JIGSAW LESSONS: On Stardust (atoms), History of Planet Earth, Our Place in the Universe, and The COVID-19 Coronavirus. TheStardustMystery.com/Educators/ #Best STEM books, #middle school science, #Purple Dragonfly Award

From the Big Bang to mRNA Vaccines: We are made of Stardust that was once in the bodies of Albert Einstein and the Last T-Rex. Transmedia storytelling for late elementary and middle school students in award-winning books, videos, short stories, and online jigsaw lessons. Funded in part by the National Science Foundation.

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The Stardust Mystery Project has free science videos, short stories, books and lessons for late elementary and middle school students. The two books, The Stardust Mystery and Race to the Big Bang won awards in 2021 for best children's STEM books. The science is all about atoms, how they were created during the evolution of the Universe and shared by plants and animals on Earth. The project was funded in part by the National Science Foundation.

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BOOKS: Illustrated time-travel adventures with nonfiction science for children 8 to 14 year old. SCIENCE VIDEOS: On the STARDUST MYSTERY YouTube Channel. SHORT STORIES: On science topics from the Big Bang to the Pandemic. TheStardustMystery.com/Educators/ JIGSAW LESSONS: On Stardust (atoms), History of Planet Earth, Our Place in the Universe, and The COVID-19 Coronavirus. TheStardustMystery.com/Educators/ #Best STEM books, #middle school science, #Purple Dragonfly Award

Just after the impact, the kids watched from their time ship as a huge plume of rocks and dust were kicked up by the asteroid. Some of it went all the way to the moon. Then everything spread out and Earth’s gravity started pulling it back to the surface. The rocks hit the Earth’s atmosphere like billions and billions of meteors all getting hot at the same time and heating up the sky. The immense heat is what killed the dinosaurs. Animals that lived underground and some sea life survived. Our Planet, T Rex, Sea Life

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Dinosaurs had ruled the Earth for 165 million years up until the time when a huge asteroid hit our planet 65 million years ago. In this story, the Cosmic Kids visit the time of that event and see the dinosaurs before the impact. Then they escape to a safe distance in their time ship to see the asteroid hit Earth and create a fiery storm on the surface. They return years later to see the sea life and mammals that survived the impact. But the dinosaurs were gone.