NASA
Nasa Star Child: The Sun
Get to know our nearest star with this introduction to the sun. Listen to the information in an audio file. Vocabulary words are linked to a glossary of terms. Features include links to other interesting facts and a printable version of...
NASA
Nasa Star Child: Star Child
StarChild from NASA defines and describes the Solar System in a simple and easy-to-understand manner. The website is broken down into two versions for the student, grade school and junior high.
Space Telescope Science Institute
Nasa: Hubble Space Telescope: Galaxies
At this site from HubbleSite you can learn all about galaxies and black holes. Click on the movie link and discover how old the universe is or study about what happens when two galaxies collide!
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Answers to Exploration Questions: Galaxies
Answers to the exploration questions about galaxies can be found on this site.
NASA
Nasa Space Place: What Is a Galaxy?
This resource explores the different types of galaxies through text and images.
Curated OER
Milky Way
Using light as our measuring stick in space, science site provides all types of fun facts using light years and seconds as a reference.
Florida State University
Florida State University: Molecular Expressions: Secret Worlds: The Universe Within
Animation going from the Milky Way all the way down to inside an atom by powers of ten. This animation helps illustrate and quantify the powers of ten.
Florida State University
Florida State University: Powers of Ten
This webpage from the Florida State University offers an applet with succeeding images, each "10 times bigger or smaller than the one preceding or following it," as a demonstration of exponential notation.
NASA
Nasa: The Space Place
This site from NASA's Space Place is geared towards early elementary learners. It offers detailed instructions for crafts and activities related to space, games and a teacher resource area. Students can also ask an expert at this site.
Curated OER
Smithsonian Institution Archives: Muriel E. Mussells Seyfert (B. 1909)
Muriel E. Mussells Seyfert (b. 1909) was an astronomer at Harvard College Observatory and had just discovered three new ring nebulae in the Milky Way when this photograph was taken, March 1936
Curated OER
Astro Lab: Space, a Contemporary Vision of the Universe
Explore how our contemporary understanding of the universe came to be. This overview looks at the history of three main areas of study, namely space, time, and the arrangement of matter.