Churchill Science

Here’s our first official question for 2009-10! To learn more about the Sun, why not visit our Sun page by clicking at the top of the screen?

We said goodbye yesterday for the 2008-9 school year. Thanks to everyone who’s used this site and contributed to it!

We’ll remain up and running through the summer – because learning never stops! – and continue right into the 2009-10 school year.

Breaking news: yet another place in the solar system that might have liquid water… Click on the picture to learn more!

Enceladus is a moon around Saturn. We thought it was so weird that it had volcanoes that spewed ice instead of lava. Now scientists think that there might be a liquid ocean underneath that ice layer, like Europa.

Yet another place to look for aliens!

Your deep thought for the day…

I love the description of Venus as “Earth’s evil twin”…

This video will make a LOT of sense if you’ve played Alien Safari! (see previous post)

We’re currently in the process of compiling the questions into a Great Book. Stay tuned!

How long would it take to take a car to Mars? What about an airplane to the moon? Click the picture to find out!

Find “alien life” here on Earth and learn about where we might find similar life on planets and moons out in our solar system!

One of the Mars rovers, Spirit, has been stuck in some loose sand for a while. This video shows how scientists on Earth are trying to help get it out.

221 played this game on Friday… we collected all 12 cards with no problem! So we moved on to something a bit more challenging…

If you want to make this game more challenging for yourself, try filling them in in reverse order, or from the middle out…

Hopefully we’ll be posting more solar system games soon!

Click on the picture to play the game!