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The Book of the Sun and the Stars by Charles Hope
Call Number: 523.2 HOP
The Solar System (series) by Robin Birch
Call Number: 523
set of 12 books: one on each planet plus Pluto, Sun, Moon and Stars
Blast Off! (series) by David and Helen Orme
Call Number: 523
set of 11 books: each of the planets plus The Moon, The Sun and Pluto and other Dwarf Planets
Space Science (series) by Christine Taylor-Butler and Melanie Chrismer
Call Number: 523
set of 9 books: one on each planet plus Pluto
Pluto's Secret by Margaret Weitekamp; David DeVorkin; Diane Kidd (Illustrator); National Air and Space Museum Staff (Other Primary Creator)
Call Number: 523.49 WEI
Exploring the Universe (series) by Robin Kerrod
set of five books: The Near Planets; The Night Sky; The Solar System; Stars and Galaxies; The Sun and Moon
The Solar System by Alexander Gordon Smith
Call Number: 523.2 SMI
The Solar System and Beyond by Gerard Cheshire
Call Number: 520 CHE
Space Exploration by David Glover
Call Number: 629.41 GLO
Space Exploration by Charles Hope
Call Number: 520 HOP
Stars and Planets by David H. Levy
Call Number: 523 STA
Sun, Stars and Planets by Tom Stacey
Call Number: 523.2 STA
Library of the Nine Planets (series)
Call Number: 523
set of nine books
The Macmillan Encyclopaedia of Junior Science by Cheryl Jakab and David Keystone
The Complete Guide to Space by Raman Prinja
Call Number: 520 PRI

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DVDs

Teaching Resources in Primary Science collection

Our Solar System and Beyond (kit containing 12 charts) 523.2 OUR
The Race in Space: A Timeline (wall frieze) 523.2 SPA
Earth and Beyond (teacher resource book plus 5 student copies of Space, Stars and Slimy Aliens) 523 ARN
Inflatable Solar System kit 523.2 INF
Inflatable Eclipse kit 523.2 INF
Light Up Solar System Model 523.2 LIG
Our Solar System: A Teaching and Learning Bulletin Board 523.2 OUR
Outer Space card game 523.2 OUT
Solar System (chart) 523.2 SOL
Solar System Kit (kit containing 9 posters) 523.2 SOL
Space Shuffle (card game) 523.2 SPA

Visit ABC Splash for videos, interactive activities and digibooks on the solar system.

Eyes on the Solar System
"Eyes on the Solar System is a 3-D environment full of real NASA mission data. Explore the cosmos from your computer. Hop on an asteroid. Fly with NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. See the entire solar system moving in real time. It's up to you. You control space and time."

TigTag is a collection of Science video clips and associated activities on a range of topics for the primary school.

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George's Secret Key to the Universe by Lucy and Stephen Hawking
Call Number: JF HAW
When George's pet pig breaks through the fence into the garden next door, George meets his new neighbours - Annie and her scientist father, Eric - and discovers a secret key that will take him on a rollercoaster ride into outer space! Eric has the world's most super-intelligent computer, Cosmos, who can whisk George and his friends off to any point in the Universe. Soon they are hurtling past planets, through a dangerous asteroid storm to the very edge of our Solar System and beyond. Also contains pages of factual information.

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