Science
Space
 An
Inquirer's Guide To The Universe
This site has activities and questions designed to stimulate
discussions with kids. There are space facts and space lore. There is
also a collection of imaginary planets that provoke stories and
thoughts on what life on another planet would be like. The site
accepts submissions from visitors and places them in the Space Story
Portfolio.
http://www.fi.edu/planets
Adler Planetarium, Chicago,
Curriculum Guides & Lesson Plans
Adler educators developed these curriculum guides and lesson plans. Each
lesson and activity has been used by interdisciplinary teams of Astronomy
Connections teachers in their classrooms, and adapted for Adler's education
programs within the museum. Modify them as needed for use in your classroom!
http://www.adlerplanetarium.org/education/teachers/plans/index.shtml
Astro-Link
http://users.aol.com/usgoju/astro.html
Astronomy
Picture of the Day
Pictures of the universe, brief written explanations by experts, and
related site sources.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov:80/apod/
Big Bear Solar Observatory
This site is dedicated to observing daily solar
phenomena Take a virtual tour of this observatory and read more about
helioseismology.
http://www.bbso.njit.edu
Earthspace.net
Visitors will take a virtual tour to the nine planets and the
sun.
http://www.earthspace.net
High-Energy
Astrophysics Learning Center
Students may visit and learn about X-rays and gamma rays.
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer
Star Gazer Jack Horkheime is the , host of a weekly Public Broadcasting System (PBS) show on naked-eye astronomy.
The site is aimed at novice stargazers.
http://www.jackstargazer.com
Live
From Mars---Internet Project
Current information and images from Sojourner .
A page of student artwork and stump questions.
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/mars/
Mars Pathfinder Images
You will find a chronological archive of images taken by the Pathfinder.
http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/mpf/image-arc.html
Mount
Wilson Observatory
Education section with constellation quiz.
http://www.mtwilson.edu/vir/index.php
Planetarium Web Sites
http://www.lochness.com/links/links.html
The
NASA Homepage
The site contains information about NASA projects, lesson plan
and more.
http://www.nasa.gov/
NASA
Largely Research Center
You will find links to other government laboratories including N.S.F., D.O.D., etc.
http://www.larc.nasa.gov/
NASA's
Education Program
Material from NASA to support the space science curriculum.
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/codef/education/
Space.com
This site is an interesting combination of news and entertainment.
You will find reviews of TV shows, movies and books(for example, episodes of
"Star Trek: Voyager" ,"The X-Files," and the book "John Glenn: A Memoir." ).Then
there is Area51, here you will find extraterrestrial news and for fun there are
play areas and stories for the kids.
http://www.space.com
The
Nine Planets
A “virtual tour “of the solar system and a treasure
trove of other information.
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/tnp/
The
Planetary Society
News about Mars exploration, and comet and asteroid discoveries.
http://planetary.org/
Rocketry
Activities
Site for the history of rocketry and classroom rocketry activities
included.
http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/Other_Groups/K-12/TRC/Rockets/RocketActivitiesHome.html
Solar
System: Planets
An overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific
knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar Text, images,
sounds, and movies. References to additional related information.
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/
StarChild
Site focuses on astronomy with links to many other astronomy
sites.
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/StarChild.html
Today@NASA
Current news,pictures, archives of previous
NASA information.
http://www.nasa.gov/today/index.html
Welcome
to the Planets
Images and research information.
http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/
Windows
to the Universe
This site will yield you images and information on the solar system,
space missions, important space leaders in space exploration, space
poetry and space mythology.
http://www.windows.umich.edu
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