Pick of the Day: Destination Titan (DVD)
Destination Titan. DVD. 60 min. Prod. by Open University. Dist. by Films Media Group. 2011. ISBN 978-1-621010-127-8. $169.95. Gr 9 Up–This production documents the design of the Cassini-Huygens probe,...
View ArticlePick of the Day: The Mighty Sky (CD)
The Mighty Sky. CD. 31:31 min. with lyrics. NewSound Kids. 2012. ISBN unavail. $14.98. K-Gr 4–This production is the brain child of Grammy nominee and NAMMY’s Songwriter of the Year (given by the...
View ArticleA Universe of Stellar Apps | Touch and Go
On a mission to discover astronomy apps, we uncovered a whole landscape of terrific productions. Here are a few of our favorites. We’ll be back with more in a future column. Kids Discover has produced...
View Article“Stephen Hawking’s Snaphots of the Universe”|On the iPad
Interior screen from ‘Stephen Hawking’s Snapshots of the Universe” (Random) Hawking While still not a household word, since the November 2014 release of film The Theory of Everything, the name Stephen...
View ArticleNonfiction Notes: Spotlight on Space
Poor Pluto. Reclassified 10 years ago, no longer a planet. At least that’s the way one of my former students viewed it. While he had difficulty accepting what he considered to be Pluto’s demotion to...
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