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Images of the formation of earth including wooly mammoths, volcanoes, asteroids, and land formation.

Earth's Wild Ride

20 minutes
Grades 2-4
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Set on the surface of the Moon in the year 2081, a grandfather and his granddaughter watch a solar eclipse from scenic cliffs overlooking their moon colony. As they watch the Moon's shadow move across Earth, the grandfather tells stories of crashing asteroids, erupting volcanoes, roaring dinosaurs, electrifying lightning and booming thunder.