Sure, our site reviews are written for
teachers, but these sites have TONS of great stuff to help you do
a great project on space. Also, why not let your teacher know about
these great resources? (Helping the teacher is a good thing.)
Amazing Space
The highlights of this highly colorful and engaging site are its
Web-based activities, explorations, and adventures. In the sections
Online Explorations and Capture the Cosmos, visitors explore planets,
comets, galaxies, and black holes, and perform experiments and observations
to further their understanding of space. Each activity is accompanied
by a teacher's page containing lesson plans tied to national science
standards, background information, and links to additional resources.
In addition, the site offers the latest space news, along with recent
photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, a Homework Help area,
and videos and animations sure to spark -- and hold -- student interest.
Additional resources for educators include a Teaching Tools section
that provides easy access to all the teaching materials available
at Amazing Space by topic or by type; a section on Astronomy Basics;
links to additional resources, and more.
Mars
Exploration Rover Mission
This well designed and easily navigable site allows visitors to
learn about the Mars Exploration Rover Mission from conception to
launch to landing. Resources include background information about
the mission and its scientific purposes, information about the role
of technology in the mission and about the project team, and up-to-the-minute
news, photographs, and video about the mission's progress. Also
provided are videos, Webcasts, computer animations, models and diagrams,
and a Flight Director's Update that brings the mission to life.
Planet Quest
Planet Quest: The Search for Another Earth highlights NASA's search
for new worlds. Visitors can learn about NASA's missions, and find
out how scientists discover new planets and determine if they are
habitable. The site includes multimedia presentations as well as
a number of hands on scientific activities and experiments. Educator
resources include activity guides for students in grades 6-8 and
links to additional NASA resources.
SpaceKids
SpaceKids is a comprehensive space site for teachers and students
in elementary through middle school. The site provides movies, photographs,
interactive games, space facts, and space mission news. Teachers
will find two complete teaching modules containing lessons, teaching
tips, hands-on student activities, and cross-curricular suggestions.
Space Science
Curriculum Standards Quilt
This interactive "quilt" from NASA offers a patchwork
of K-12 lesson plans and activities for teaching about space science.
All the ready-to-use lessons and activities are standards-based
and age appropriate. Users choose a grade range to view highlighted
patches of lessons and activities available at those grade levels
and then click a patch to access a summary of the activity and a
link to it. Activities range from an exploration of Mars for K-4
students to an exploration of the electromagnetic spectrum for high
school students.
ALSO
WORTH EXPLORING!
Astronomy for Kids
Astroventure
The Constellations
Earth and Sky
The Exploratorium
Exploring
Planets in the Classroom
The Galileo Project
Imagine the Universe
Liftoff! Education
Mars Millennium Project
NASA Homepage
NASAQuest
The Nine Planets
Our Earth as Art
Planetary Science Research
The Planetary Society
Science@NASA
Solar System Simulator
Space Science
Hotlist
Space Science Instructional Materials
Visible Earth
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