Students use technology in this project in a variety of ways. Right now I'm looking at Mars, and it's coming straight from Arizona. I didn't know Mars had a symbol until I started looking on the computer. I didn't know all the planets had different symbols at that time. Anyway, I found out the distance between Mars is one and a half the distance between the Earth and the sun.
Students can actually get today's weather on Mars if they want to.
There's a lot of raw scientific data there on site. It's possible also, then, to get the Teacher's Guide with all of these wonderful activities just right here from the Web site itself. There are activity sheets, student activity sheets, that can be printed out and they're just ready to go. You need the balloons, and the balloon pump, fishing line, paper clips, paper cups, straws, and tape. But by doing this experiment, and by changing the variables, by changing the weight of the payload on the balloon rocket, that we were able to discover that relationship.