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SETI Learning about space and science with real Moon rocks

Larry Klaes ( lklaes@bbn.com )
Tue, 02 Feb 1999 08:15:14 -0500

>From "Kids hold the moon in their hands",
Bergen Record, Sunday, January 31, 1999:

http://www.bergen.com:80/region/moondg199901313.htm

"It's from another planet, and it's cool to see
something from another world," said 10-year-old
Edward Santiago.

...

Flynn wants her pupils to grasp just how meaningful
these [lunar] pebbles are.

"Tonight," she tells one child, "you have to say,
'I held the Moon in my hand.'

That's the hardest thing to make kids understand --
that this came from another planet."