Cuddly astronauts M.A.T and K.M.S and two bear colleagues were decked out in custom-made space suits and blasted 19 miles above Earth on a two-hour expedition by local students with help from Cambridge University’s Space Flight science club.
Talk about hands on learning, engaged students, and more awesomeness than most could hope to shake a stick [...]

I am a huge fan of Google Earth, and use it extensively for geotagging photos, as well as general exploring of the miraculous planet we call home. I have also had great success with using Google Earth in the classroom, and one of the short activities I like to do is plotting the relative distances [...]