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Nasa Star Child: Dark Matter (Level 1)
This site provides a description of "dark matter" and how scientist study it.
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Nasa Star Child: Dark Matter (Level 2)
This site provides a description of "dark matter" and how scientists study it. Vocabulary words linked to a glossary of terms, and a printable version are also available on the site.
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Nasa's the Space Place: A Trip to the Land of the Magic Windows
Explore the electromagnetic spectrum and learn about each type of energy on the spectrum.
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Nasa: Sea Wi Fs Biosphere Globes
This interactive globe allows you to get any view of the earth by entering latitude, longitude and season criteria.
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Nasa: Sea Wi Fs Project: Teachers Resources
SeaWIFS refers to the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor, which is a satellite sensor that can monitor the color of the oceans and send data back to Earth. This page has a collection of scientific and educational resources on ocean...
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Nasa: Space Math I
This educator's guide provides students with the opportunity to solve mathematical problems related to space science. Includes space background information, lesson plans, and answer keys.
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Nasa: The Solar Wind
Describes solar winds, solar wind variations, and spacecraft studying solar wind. Also includes solar wind conditions for the past day/week.
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The Solar Data Analysis Center (Sdac)
The Solar Data Analysis Center at NASA provides all the latest information learned about the sun. Content includes a look at information brought back by several satellites.
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Nasa: From Stargazers to Starships: The Round Earth and Christopher Columbus
Despite popular myth, people of the 15th century actually realized that the earth was round. Some scientists had even estimated the size of the Earth. Here's an interesting explanation from a section of an online textbook on the...
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Ucar Center for Science Education: Web Weather for Kids
This website provides information, lessons and activities regarding clouds, tornadoes, thunderstorms, hurricanes and winter storms.
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Nasa E Clips: Nasa's Launchpad: The Great Boomerang Challenge [Pdf]
Students use the principles of technological and engineering design to research and explain how airfoil shape affects flight characteristics and how it applies to boomerang flight.. They will work in teams to design, build, test, and...
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Nasa Wavelength: Matter Cycles Matter: The Case of Carbon
A collection of teaching resources that look at the carbon cycle and its role in a changing climate.
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Nasa: Radar Images
See amazing radar images of Earth taken from the space shuttle orbiting high above the surface. Categories include archeology, geology, volcanoes, and more! Visit the NASA/JPL Imaging Radar Program link for more images and information.
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Nasa: Mars Pathfinder Archives
Snapshots and home video from our trip to Mars. High resolution images, 3-D pictures, and stereo pairs and related files.
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Nasa: Mars Odyssey
Within the rocky landscape of Mars you will find the Mariner Valley. This expansive landform is as deep as the Grand Canyon and encompasses an area as wide as the distance between New York and Los Angeles.
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Nasa: Stardust Educator's Guide
Features lots of projects for students to learn about space and space exploration.
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Nasa: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology is "the lead US center for robotic exploration of the solar system."
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Nasa: Comet Hale Bopp Images
This site contains 5,161 images of the Hale-Bopp comet from 1995 to 2000. This incredible photo archive is definitely worth a visit.
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Nasa: Cosmic Chemistry: An Elemental Question
Explore the periodic table like never before! This downloadable program module for students comes absolutely complete with teacher modules, student assessments, PowerPoints, Excel spreadsheets, historical text readings and more. Students...
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Nasa: Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, a project to collect the most accurate topographic database for the Earth, is documented at this site.
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Nasa: Dynamic Ocean Topography With Current Arrows
Color-coded image of ocean currents depicts directional flow and speed of the currents across the globe.
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Nasa: Mars for Educators
A wealth of educator resources for studying Mars. Includes lesson plans relating to Curiosity, imagining Mars, and classroom activities exploring Mars.
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Nasa: Dare Mighty Things
Explore this interactive timeline to learn about fifty years of planetary exploration. Click on each box for more expanded details.
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Nasa: Atoms and Molecules in Motion, States of Matter [Pdf]
Everythingin the universeis either matter or energy. All matter is made of combinations of about one hundred basic building blocks, the chemical elements on the periodic table. Going a step further and breaking these elements down to...