Space Telescope Science Institute
Amazing Space: Comets
Amazing Science provides teachers with facts about comets that they can use as a reference or to stimulate class discussion. The science questions support the instructional activity's activities.
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Armagh Planetarium: Meteorites: Answers to Commonly Asked Questions
Read about the origin and movement of meteorites and other space rocks.
Space Telescope Science Institute
Hubble Site: Way Out!
Can you help a cow plot a path out of the Milky Way? This hilarious space game is for all ages and is offered by HubbleSite. Users may pick their level of expertise and can choose from novice, pretty smart about space, or an astrobrainiac.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Answers to Exploration Questions: Planets
This page will answer the questions to the planet exploration questions in a previous activity.
Curated OER
Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous
View photographs of space craft and read about their assembly, launching, and where they went.
Fourmilab Switzerland
John Walker: Your Sky
You can produce sky maps for any date and time, viewpoint or observing location. See your sky map, horizon view, or track an asteroid or comet on this highly interactive site.
Extreme Science
Extreme Science: Space Science: Our Solar System
Read about our solar system and its formation over 4.6 billion years ago. Find out about the planets, asteroids, meteors, satellites, and comets. More in-depth planet background can be accessed through links.
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College of the Redwoods: Special Plane Curves
This resource gives a report on asteroids including brief history and pictures.
NASA
Nasa: Launch a Rocket From a Spinning Planet
This site from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration provides a fun project on rockets. "Nothing in space stands still. Everything either orbits around something else, or moves toward or away from something else. So how do...
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Thirteen Productions: Space Racers: Space Collector
An interactive game dodging asteroids and collecting objects in space. Students will practice hand-eye coordinated mouse skills while flying through space.
Cosmos 4 kids
Cosmos4 Kids: Solar System Details: Comets
All about comets! What are they? How do they occur? What are their effects in the solar system? The brief, easy to understand text make this site most suitable for the younger researcher.
Nine Planets
The Nine Planets: An Overview of the Solar System
A detailed overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in the solar system.
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The Apollo Society: The Solar System
Contains a small set of images of solar system objects and a series of links to information about all solar system objects. Solar System Tours link to excellent image collections.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Other Celestial Bodies Study Guide
Review celestial bodies using this study guide.
Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum: Meteorites
Brief article examines what meteorites are, the different types, and where they came from.
Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: Astrobiology and Space Exploration
A collection of video lectures from several guest speakers about issues of astrobiology and space exploration at Stanford University. The lectures cover topics like Martian meteorites, planetary system, life in space, and satellites....
Chem4kids
Chem4 Kids: Chemistry in Space
Anywhere there is matter there is chemistry, therefore chemistry is found all over the universe, not only here on Earth. In fact, scientists have even discovered organic chemistry in other galaxies.
NASA
Nasa: Io: Overview: Volcanic Moon
Find out about most volcanically active world in the Solar System, Jupiter's moon named Io.
Space Telescope Science Institute
Amazing Science: Solar System Trading Cards
Amazing Science looks at the Solar System with this FAQ site and lesson plan.
Other
Space Today Online: Nasa's Discovery Missions
Survey of unmanned Discovery spacecraft missions such as the Mars Pathfinder rover and other past, present, and planned missions. Illustrated.
Other
Dinosaur Extinction: One More Hypothesis
"The survivals and extinctions at the close of the Cretaceous are such as might be expected to result from intensely hot winds such as would be generated by extra large meteoritic impacts." This article suggests that this theory should...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Science in Paradise: Big Dish
Investigate the science of radio astronomy, and create a model of a curved reflecting dish that will work like the Arecibo detector to detect electromagnetic waves. Explore risk using a risk space grid.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: All About Starfish
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains facts about starfish, a crossword puzzle, and a poem. The last page contains several links to stories, games, puzzles, and pictures of starfish.
NASA
Nasa Star Child: Mars the Red Planet (Level 1)
Get to know your next door neighbor in space. An introduction to Mars, the Red Planet. Vocabulary words linked to glossary of terms. Printable version available.
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