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Originally Posted by AGN Fuel
A very simple but very powerful thing that I used to do with school groups at our observatory is to find out when the ISS is passing overhead at your location next (use Heavens-Above.com or similar). Just beforehand, had a chat with them about the ISS, living & working in space, show them pictures (or video) of living in that environment.
Then take them outside and show them the real thing as it passes over. It 'personalises' the experience deeply for them!
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I'll vouch for that - the ISS flew over New Zealand on Tuesday night - very cool.
We have a VHS of an old Discovery channel show on the ISS, which the kids like. Sometimes at least - some nights all they want is XBox... 
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If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it... of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which are only accessible to our reason in their most elementary forms...
Albert Einstein
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