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Phase I - Getting Interested

The first step is to spark your students' interests. You need to provide a wide range of images in the classroom environment. For example, pass around all the printed images provided with KidSat. Let students explore KidSat and EarthRISE (http://earthrise.sdsc.edu) images on-line. Check your library for books with a rich assortment of images, and let students peruse them. You can also get posters that show various areas of the Earth as seen from space (an excellent resource is SpaceShots 1-800-272-2779)

Some books with a wealth of images:

The Third Planet by Sally Ride and Tam O'Shaughnessy (ISBN #0-517-59361-0) 
(middle school level)

Seeing Earth From Space by Patricia Lauber (ISBN #0-531-05902-2) (high school level)

Touching the Earth by Roberta Bondar (ISBN #1-55013-575-9)

Embracing Earth by Payson Stevens and Kevin Kelley (ISBN #0-8118-0135-7)

The Home Planet by Kevin Kelley (ISBN #0-201-15197-9)

Looking at Earth by Priscilla Strain and Frederick Engle (ISBN #1-878685-16-3)

Orbit by Jay Apt, Michael Helfert, Justin Wilkinson (ISBN #0-7922-3714-5)

As your students scan the images, one or more should grab their attention. Perhaps the image has a strong visual appeal, or it may show a region of the world that a student has visited, or it may show an exciting event such as a volcano exploding or have unique patterns that arouse their curiosity. You know from your teaching that students learn best when they are interested in the topic. So too with images: they usually need a hook, a point of interest, to open their minds to an image, and continue through to the next phase.

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