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Jaxa Homepage

For Students 9th - 10th
The official homepage of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Includes information on space missions, activities for students and educators, and news articles.
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NASA

Nasa: Gemini, Bridge to the Moon

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has links to many NASA resources about the Gemini program. Detailed information on Gemini missions and many images are available from this site.
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NASA

Nasa: Project Skylab

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has links to many resources about Project Skylab. Detailed information, articles, videos, and images are available here.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: Fantasy and Science Fiction

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson is an introduction to Contemporary Fantasy and Science Fiction including definitions, themes, characteristics, and some leading authors and movies.
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Curated OER

The Orion Space Capsule

For Students 9th - 10th
The Futures Channel has compiled an extensive library of videos about space exploration. You can find a short clip that will enhance many topics. This is a superior resource for information about the atmosphere and surface of Mars,...
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Space Tether

For Students 9th - 10th
The Futures Channel has compiled an extensive library of videos about space exploration. You can find a short clip that will enhance many topics. This is a superior resource for information about the atmosphere and surface of Mars,...
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Niac

For Students 9th - 10th
The Futures Channel has compiled an extensive library of videos about space exploration. You can find a short clip that will enhance many topics. This is a superior resource for information about the atmosphere and surface of Mars,...
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Curated OER

Revisiting the Moon

For Students 9th - 10th
The Futures Channel has compiled an extensive library of videos about space exploration. You can find a short clip that will enhance many topics. This is a superior resource for information about the atmosphere and surface of Mars,...
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Curated OER

Bio Suit

For Students 9th - 10th
The Futures Channel has compiled an extensive library of videos about space exploration. You can find a short clip that will enhance many topics. This is a superior resource for information about the atmosphere and surface of Mars,...
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Curated OER

Spaceports

For Students 9th - 10th
The Futures Channel has compiled an extensive library of videos about space exploration. You can find a short clip that will enhance many topics. This is a superior resource for information about the atmosphere and surface of Mars,...
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Curated OER

The Surface of Mars

For Students 9th - 10th
The Futures Channel has compiled an extensive library of videos about space exploration. You can find a short clip that will enhance many topics. This is a superior resource for information about the atmosphere and surface of Mars,...
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Curated OER

Manned Exploration Is Only One Way We Study the Universe.

For Students 9th - 10th
Space can be explored in many different ways. Read about space exploration and click on the topics on the right margin to find out how man finds out about his universe.
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Astromador: Astronomia Para Amadores

For Students 9th - 10th
This resources focuses exclusively on astronomy. It's packed with historical facts about space exploration, famous people who pioneered the study of stars and planets. It features chronological list of space exploration, current news,...
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Traveling to Mars? What Your Body Needs to Know [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A unit lesson plan around the central question: "How does space flight affect the human body, including weightlessness, and how can humans protect themselves for such long-distance travel?" During this instructional activity, young...
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Other

Vibrationdata.com: Animal Astronauts

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about some of the early animal astronauts who were launched into space to help determine the effects of space travel on human beings.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Mysteries of the Universe

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Consider the issues surrounding the world of space exploration including the new fields of archaeoastronomy and astrobiology. Investigate zero gravity, the Big Bang theory, life in space and how sound travels in a vacuum.
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Kidport

Kidport: Space Science

For Students 3rd - 5th
This complete resource will help students to improve their understand of space exploration. Includes images of the universe, galaxies, stars and planets.
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Sonoma State University

The Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope (Glast)

For Students 9th - 10th
Background information on gamma rays and the sources of gamma rays in the universe. Discusses the purpose of the GLAST space mission and the types of findings which they wish to make. A link to the GLAST movie provides an excellent...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Dr. Sally Ride on Dumb Questions

For Students 9th - 10th
These days, just about every space mission has women on it. It's just not a big deal. But in 1983, it was very much a big deal- that's the year Sally Ride became the first American woman in space. [7:05]
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CNN

Cnn: Alan Shepard Was a "Pretty Cool Customer" July 22,1998

For Students 9th - 10th
Biography and obituary of Alan B. Shepard. He was America's first space traveler. This site has links to related sites about Shepard and the early days of the space program.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Flight to Mars: How Long? Along What Path?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Demonstrate how, with the use of orbital mechanics, a space mission to Mars can be planned. Using no more than algebra, Kepler's laws and the formula for the energy of an object in a Kepler orbit, the exercise derives the time for an...
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NASA

Nasa: New Horizons Image Gallery

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of still and moving images from the New Horizon's space mission. Most of the images include descriptions and depict Pluto and its moon, Charon.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Red Rover Robotics

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson will start with a brief history of robotics and explain how robots are beneficial to science and society. The lesson then will explore how robots have been used in recent space exploration efforts. The engineering design of...
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A&E Television

History.com: 2021 Events

For Students 9th - 10th
2021 is nearly history. Take a look back at a year that saw political turmoil, the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, an unusual Olympic Games, devastating natural disasters, advances in space exploration and more.

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