Education Web Sites

Activities/Curriculum

Aeronautics, Space Exploration, etc.

Spacelink - On-line Educational activities http://spacelink.nasa.gov/Instructional.Materials/On-line.Educational.Activities/ Nine sets of activities for grades K-8.

Solar System

Destination Mars http://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/Education/activities/destmars/destmars.htm Activities about Mars in Adobe Acrobat.

Exploring Planets in the Classroom http://www.spacegrant.hawaii.edu/class_acts/index.html Hands-on science activities from University of Hawaii. Mostly Planetary Science and Geology.

Live from Earth and Mars http://www-k12.atmos.washington.edu/k12/index.html More than just activities, also includes workshop materials and teacher/student projects.

Mars Exploration Curriculum http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/education/modules/webpages/curriculumwelcomepage.htm More activities about Mars

Galileo Mission Education Modules http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/sepo/webflier.html Activites relating to Jupiter and it's moons.

Comet Recipe http://www.noao.edu/education/crecipe.html Make a comet in your classroom.

General Astronomy

Good Astronomy Activites on the WWW http://www.astrosociety.org/education/activities/astroacts.html from Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

Great site for Astronomy Activities and Background Info from the Lunar and Planetary Institute: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/resources/

Astronomy with a Stick http://www.nsta.org/publications/interactive/aws-din/aws.aspx Solar Astonomy

NASA/MSU-Bozeman CERES Project Educational Activities http://btc.montana.edu/ceres/html/EdActivities.html For grades K-12 following the NASA themes.

Electromagnetic Spectrum

Infrared Activities http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/Outreach/Edu/activities.html List of Links to activies about the infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Debunking PseudoScience

Activities about Astrology http://www.astrosociety.org/education/astro/act3/astrology.html Demonstrate the difference between Astromony and Astrology and that Astrology is not a science with these great activites from the Astromonical Society of the Pacific.

General

Practical Uses of Math And Science (PUMAS) Home Page http://pumas.jpl.nasa.gov/ Collection of one-page examples of how math and science topics taught in K-12 classes can be used in interesting settings, including everyday life.

Images

USGS Flagstaff Browse the Solar System http://wwwflag.wr.usgs.gov/USGSFlag/Space/wall/wall.html

NOAO Image Gallery http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/

Astronomy Picture of the Day http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html A new astronomy-related image every day. Plus archives of all previous images.

LPI Slide sets http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/slidesets/lpislides.html These can be ordered as slides for a fee or downloaded as .gif files for computer use.

Multiwavelength Milky Way http://mwmw.gsfc.nasa.gov/mmw_edu.html Images of our galaxy in different wavelengths (colors).

PlanetScapes http://planetscapes.com/ Views of the Solar System - lots of images with descriptions.

NASA Planetary Photojournal http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/ Almost every image ever taken by a NASA spacecraft can be found here.

NASA- JSC Digital Image Collection http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/ Images taken from shuttle missions and press release images from the manned space program.

Space Missions

JPL Current Missions http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/

Galileo http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/index.html Nearly finished mission to Jupiter and its moons.

Mars Global Surveyor http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/

2001 Mars Odyssey http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/odyssey/

Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) http://near.jhuapl.edu/ Succesful mission to an asteroid.

Cassini-Huygens http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cassini/ Mission on its way to study Saturn.

Kepler Mission http://www.kepler.arc.nasa.gov/ Extra-solar planet search mission.

Other

National Science Teachers Associtation http://www.nsta.org/

SETI Education http://www.seti.edu/education/ Education webpage from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.

Bad Astonomy http://www.badastronomy.com/ Actually a GOOD Astronomy page that explains what is bad about astronomy in popular media: movies, television, etc.

astronautix.com http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/mwade/index.htmUS/Russian space missions, with an emphasis on manned missions and spacecraft.

The Nine Planets http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.htmlTHE place to go for information about the solar system.

How things work http://rabi.phys.virginia.edu/HTW/A physicist answers you questions.

Support Network http://spacescience.nasa.gov/education/ecosystem.htm Addresses of regional NASA contacts for Public Outreach Support.

Major Education Resources

NASA Space Science Education Resource Directory http://teachspacescience.stsci.edu/

Astronomical Society of the Pacific http://www.astrosociety.org/education.html Home of Project ASTRO.

SSDOO Education Outreach Page http://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/education/education_home.html Launches, news and resources from the Space Science Data Operations Office of NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center.

Education Resources Catalog http://www.lpi.usra.gov/education/ERC/resources.html

NASA CORE http://core.nasa.gov/ Central Operation of Resources for Educators.

Challenger Center http://www.challenger.org/ Challenger Center for Space Science Education.

Students for the Exploration and Development of Space http://www.seds.org/

STScI Public Information http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/ Includes links to Hubble images.

NASA Quest http://quest.nasa.gov/space/teachers/liftoff/ Written guides to accompany the Liftoff to Learning video series.

LPI Education Resources http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/education.html List of programs, products and resources from the Lunar and Planetary Institute.

NASA Spacelink http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/index.html An Aeronautics and Space Resource for Education.

Windows to the Universe http://www.windows.ucar.edu/ Web site about Earth and Space sciences. Ingludes games, art, data, and cool stuff.

SSI Education http://www.spacescience.org/Education/1.html Activities, information, and resources from the Space Science Institute.

Newsletters

NASA Planetary Science Research Discoveries (PSRD) http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/ Educational site sharing the latest research on planets, meteorites, and other solar system bodies.

Universe in the Classroom http://www.astrosociety.org/education/publications/tnl/tnl.html Teacher's Newsletter from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

Hoku http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/Reference/Library/hoku/ Newsletter for Educators and Parents.

Media Sites

NOVA online http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/

Sky and Telescope Magazine http://www.skypub.com/

Astronomy Magazine http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx

Sites for Students

The Space Place http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov

Imagine the Universe http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.htmlActivities and other resoures for high school.

Star Child http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/StarChild.html A learning center for young astronomers, 14 and under.

Mars

Mars Exploration http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/ Extremely comprehensive site about Mars and Mars missions. Includes links to classroom activities and fun stuff.

Mars Academy http://www.marsacademy.com/ Activities centering around colonization of Mars.

New Mars http://www.newmars.com/ Journal of the Mars Society

Mars Education http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/classroom/ From JPL, maker of Mars missions.

Programs for Students

Stargazers at NAU (summer program for high school students) http://www.spacegrant.nau.edu/stargazer/index.html

Expanding your Horizons http://www.expandingyourhorizons.org/ Nation-wide program for junior high school girls.

Education Grants

IDEAS http://ideas.stsci.edu/ Initiative to Develop Education through Astronomy and Space Science.

Native American

On-line Navajo Flash lessons http://www2.gmcs.k12.nm.us/TECHshare/cd_07_content.html

The Sacred Sky of the Navajo and Pueblo http://arcturus.pomona.edu/sw/Navajo.griffith.essay2.html


Created by J. Rathbun, 2001
Last modified (by K. Herrmann): 2 Nov 2010