NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
This multimedia website deals with NASA careers and astrobiology research. The concept is to search for and design a habitable planet. Students enter training, are quizzed on their knowledge, and adjust the features of potentially habitable planets to see what makes a planet habitable and why. The recording of student observations ties this activity to the basics of the scientific process. (From HOKU Newsletter)
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
This site has detailed information on forthcoming solar and lunar eclipses and charts, maps, and other information about past eclipses. There is a 5,000 year catalog of solar eclipses (-1900 to +3000). There is also an extensive list of links to other eclipse resources. From the Planetary Systems Branch, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center.
This Provides online learning activities on key science ideas. Designed for teachers, activities include simulations, embedded questions, and common student misconceptions with practical ideas for addressing them. Newton's three laws of motion comprise one featured topic. Another focuses on the universe: how we know what we know, the sun as a star, the life and death of stars, beyond our solar system, the origin and evolution of the universe.
Planet QuestNASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
Created at the Jet Propulsion Labs, this website offers online resources as well as offline activities for middle school and high school students. Highlighting the technology of interferometry (a method employing the interference of electromagnetic radiation to make highly precise measurements of the angle between the two rays of light), students can begin to understand how this technology can change our knowledge of the universe and the search for life on other planets. Virtual tours, 3D models and animations have been created to more clearly show students the work being done by JPL.
View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.
SEGway: Science Education GatewayNASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
The Science Education Gateway (formerly SII) is a collaborative NASA project which brings together the expertise of NASA scientists, science museums, and K-12 educators to produce NASA science-based Earth and space science curricula for classroom and public use via the World Wide Web. SEGway materials are produced by teachers in locally-grown collaborations with program staff at nearby partnering science museums. The partnerships support teacher-developers in achieving the goals of teaching Earth and space science online, and provide them with the training technical support needed for their curriculum projects. A gateway to the wonders of astronomy and space science for students, educators, and the public. Includes lesson plans with links to Science Standards. There is a catalog arranged by grade level.
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
A NASA/JPL/Caltech spyglass on the cosmos. Select from the options and the simulator creates a color image of your favorite planet or satellite.
Compiled by Mary W. Scott, Geology Librarian, Orton Memorial Library of Geology
Designed by Michael C. Veres, Student Library Assistant
Page updated: April 18, 2007