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NASA

Nasa: Make a Star Finder

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learning game and activity that teaches about the constellations by making a star finder to help locate them.
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NASA

Nasa: Misr Crossword

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration provides information on the MISR, the multi-eyed Earth watcher and then use the information learned to solve the crossword puzzle.
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Interactive
NASA

Nasa: Play Pixel This!

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration provides great information on the subject. Learn to see things more clearly by studying about pixels and how they are used in cameras.
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Activity
NASA

Nasa: Probing Earth Through the Clouds

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site from the National Aeornautics and Space Administration provides a fun activity for the subject. "Clouds often hide large areas of the Earth's surface. We can use radar to make detailed maps of Earth right through clouds or...
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NASA

Nasa: Starlight Riddle

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site from NASA provides an interestinnng approach to telescopes. "Almost all telescopes nowadays use mirrors, not lenses, to gather and focus the light from celestial objects. We have just seen, though, that mirrors reverse the...
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NASA

Nasa: The Space Place: What's a Barycenter?

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site from NASA helps in explaining a barycenter. "In the case of the Earth and the Sun, both bodies actually revolve, or spin, around the center of the mass between them. This point is called the barycenter."
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NASA

Nasa: The Space Place: Build a Bubble Powered Rocket

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This site from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration provides fun information on bubble powered rockets. "Build your own rocket using paper and fizzing tablets! Watch it lift off. How high does your rocket go?"
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NASA

Nasa: The Space Place: Keck Interferometer

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration provides the opportunity to solve a crossword and learn about the world's biggest telescopes.
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Interactive
NASA

Nasa: The Space Place

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration allows students to explore topics related to planet earth and outer space. A number of games and interactive features are available.
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Activity
NASA

Nasa: The Space Place: Make Asteroids You Can Eat

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration provides an interesting activity on making asteroids. "Create your own odd-shaped asteroids out of plain old mashed potatoes. Bake them in the oven to turn them asteroid...
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NASA

Nasa: The Space Place: Sorting Out Trees in the Forest

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration provides fun information on the subject. "people can do their jobs even better if they have very accurate images of the ground. Oddly enough, the best way to see lots of...
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NASA

Nasa: The Space Place

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This site is geared towards elementary learners, but most lessons can be modified for older learners. Space-related classroom activities, printable images of Earth and space, thought-provoking Space Place Musing podcasts and math-related...
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Other

Imperial College London: Space Missions: Ulysses

For Students 9th - 10th
Has a basic description of the Ulysses mission, along with explanations of some of the instruments and data.
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NASA

Nasa: Imagine the Universe: Got Calcium?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site has an article on, "The Milky Way galaxy doesn't contain any milk, but it sure does have a lot of calcium. There's enough calcium floating between the stars to fortify trillions about trillions of stars."
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Activity
NASA

Nasa: Multimedia

For Students 9th - 10th
NASA shows off images of space here as well as their interactive features: Find a blog, podcasts, interactive features and more. Download your favorite image onto your phone.
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NASA

Nasa: Imagine the Universe: The Sun

For Students 3rd - 8th
Site discusses the regions of the Sun's atmosphere such as the Photosphere, Chromosphere, and Corona. Provides sources for educators as well as additional links for students.
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NASA

Nasa Space Science Data Archive: The Voyagers

For Students 9th - 10th
This web page contains information about the Voyager and the Voyager II. The page explains that the Voyagers were designed to go beyond our solar system. The page also contains scientific results of regarding the Voyager mission.
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NASA

Nasa Space Science Data Archive: Surveyor (1966 1968)

For Students 9th - 10th
See pictures of the Surveyor, as well as a small description of the Surveyor mission objectives, along with launch,landing dates and coordinates.
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NASA

Nasa Space Science Data Archive: Clementine Mission

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains the official record of the Clementine mission's survey of the moon, with links to more detailed information about the spacecraft and its mission. Includes images of the mission and planets.
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Handout
NASA

Nasa Space Science Data Archive: Giotto Mission

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the National Space Science Data Center provides information on the Giotto mission which was designed to study Comet P/Halley. The spacecraft encountered Halley on March 13, 1986 and approached to within 600 km. This page...
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NASA

Nasa: Educator Features and Articles

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
K-12 educational articles, lesson plans, and other teaching materials on current NASA projects that meet national education standards. NASA generates awareness of students' interest in space, science, mathematics, geography, and...
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NASA

Nasa: Educator Features and Articles

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
K-12 educational articles, lesson plans, and other teaching materials on current NASA projects that meet national education standards. NASA generates awareness of students' interest in space, science, mathematics, geography, and...
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Article
FOX News

Fox News: Space Shuttle Disintegrates; Seven Astronauts Killed

For Students 9th - 10th
Article from February 2003 detailing the events surrounding the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
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Article
FOX News

Fox News: Timeline: u.s. Space Program History

For Students 9th - 10th
An interesting timeline of the history of the U.S. space program from 1961 to 2003. (Published February 1, 2003)