On this date in 1976 the Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars takes the first close-up, color photos of the planet's surface.

Have students turn over papers to indicate who is done. As you circulate about the room, you'll get a feel for how many students are done.

Placing colored stickers or tape on the space bar of computer keyboards helps smaller children find it. Often they run all the words together since there is no letter of the alphabet that is a space.

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