Fun games require Shockwave. Every Thursday, parents and teachers can check this site for scientific information, fun facts, interesting images, and lesson plans based on research and projects that NASA is conducting. 12 deals with Mars exploration and other interplanetary adventures. Archives of previous Thursday's Classrooms are available as well. More information includes background, electronic properties, physical properties, crystallography, compounds, and uses of the element and uses in geology and biology.
Diagrams illustrate many of the different concepts.
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