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Getting humans to Mars is difficult enough. Once there, it will be at least just as tough for them to survive on that planet.

Mission to Mars

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Reinforce students' learning about new science discoveries with activities that provide engagement, exploration, explanation, elaboration, and evaluation.

Snapshot of Space Activities

Snapshot of Space

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Pandas eat from trees and sleep in them too.

A Cub in the Wild

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National Geographic Explorer Lucy Cooke helps sloths who have lost their mothers.

Saving Sloths

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Because of their great size and length, giraffe bodies have developed a number of adaptations.

Tall Tales

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Purring cats have a bone in their voiceboxes that lions, tigers, jaguars, and leopards are missing.

The Four that Roar

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A mother bear protects her cubs from danger.

Grizzly Bear Family

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Males lions protect the family, while females hunt.

Life in a Pride

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Mozambique's 15-year civil war made Gorongosa National Park a dangerous place for the park's elephants.

Gorongosa Elephants

Gorongosa's Elephants

magazine, a nonfiction periodical for learners in kindergarten to fifth grade. Published by National Geographic Society, each issue features storytelling, exploration, and stunning photography. Have your learners select an article to read and then extend the experience with the reading and content activities that accompany the story.

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