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Activities

Space Junk

 

  • Have students look at the artist rendering of space junk on the cover of issue 19. Ask students to write a short story about being a garbage collector in space. What do they find? How do they gather it? What do they do with it?

  • The problems caused by space junk are a theme in the manga/anime series Planetes. Have students write and draw a anime story based on a rogue piece of space debris.


    Looking for Smart Stuff?     Click here to download Issue 18's edition (PDF).     Answers to the Issue 18 SmartStuff are listed on Page 2 of the Issue 18 Teacher's Guide that accompanies Current Events magazine.

    Resources

    SPACE JUNK:

  • Find out more about space junk with this Q & A from the BBC.

  • Find out how satellites work.


    STRIKE OUT?:

  •  Find out how New York Yankees third baseman Alex "A-Rod" Rodriguez played after the steroid frenzy in his first official at-bat of the Spring.




     

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