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The article focuses on the study of stars in science teaching. In Colton Junior High School in California, star charts were held over head to read them and they were also copied into notebooks to be used as a reference for evening observations. Constellations appearing in the East early in the evening are on the eastern part of the ceiling and walls; those to the North on the northern part of the room. Pupils choose the committees themselves for beginning research to find out all about the night sky. Members of the science classes cut stars from colored papers and made the sizes corresponding to actual star magnitudes. Each day the children came in eager for sharing what they saw the previous night in the sky. By observing the ceiling of stars the young future scientists got motivation for observing the sky at night. Other daytime observations included the moon, when it was there, and sun spots. This stimulating interest in the night sky was the result of development and motivation by putting the stars overhead.

The article examines evidence of short term surface changes gathered during the last ten years that point toward active tectonic processes on the moon, and takes into account possible relations with the seismic data from the four lunar seismographs placed on the moon. It discusses the probability of relatively gentle processes leading to mare formation, observations of short-live or transient changes in the appearance of small areas on the moon, observations of a volcano on the moon, and characteristics of the transients that have reappeared in the moonquake distribution.

This article captures the experiences and reactions of the schools students of the United States about the brightness and other properties of the Moon. The students when encountered with the astronomical features of the Moon, they were excited and curious to know more about it. The questions which popped up in the innocent minds of these children regarding moon included why it does not appear every day, what made it so light, how did the Moon look, etc. When asked by a teacher in the classroom that how may of them had seen the Moon, only one responded back. But on the very next day there was long queue and loud voice for answering such questions. The children were very interested to know about the Moon and they took keen interest in knowing that. They were so keen to know about it that they observed that in which part of sky it was in the night and in the next morning. In the similar eager manner interest and observation went to the stars. The parents too learned as they went out at night with their children to see the North Star and other astronomical objects visible from the Earth.