Year 5 CIS's Profile

lots of resources on the Report Card’s Web site to help you form solid opinions on all kinds of topics

Scientists from the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) are answering questions submitted by kids. You can read and watch interviews with AMNH scientists and curators, and explore different ecosystems with cool "interactivities

Share ideas

discuss the big ecological challenges

Scholastic will collect your votes over the next two months. The Report Card will be revealed to the world just before Earth Day, April 22, 2009

research Earth's air and oceans

allow humans to use gadgets like cell phones and computers

circling Earth at a speed of 25,200 miles per hour (mph)

paths crossed, they smashed into each other and sent a cloud of debris into Earth's orbit.

satellites into orbit since 1957. This was the first time two satellites crashed into each other.

small stuff crowding Earth's orbit that has scientists concerned.

billions of pieces of space junk

humans leave a little bit of garbage behind

pieces of booster rockets and insulation, bolts, paint chips, and even bags of tools.

another 400 to 500 large pieces of debris were added to the clutter

satellites collided

could stay in Earth's orbit for 10,000 years

recent satellite crash has made them take a closer look at how to clean up Earth's cluttered outer reaches