Task 7 - Space Futures Wednesday , 28 July 2004 print

Professional associations and useful contacts

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Stars Academy http://www.starsprogram.com
Go on a virtual tour of the solar system http://www.spacekids.com
Visit the learning centre of the Planetary Society http://planetary.org
Stardust spacecraft mission http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov
NASA http://www.kids.msfc.nasa.gov
Starshine Research Satellite http://www.azinet.com
Small Experimentation Module at NASA

http://www.wff.nasa.gov/~sspp/sem/sem.html

Websites- The Solar System- Sun, Planets, Satellites, Phenomena

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Heavens Above is a fantastic site! Students can nominate their own town as the viewing point and obtain information that enables them to view  space shuttles, asteroids, sattelites and other astronomical phenomena at specific times. Great fun!

http://heavens-above.com/

 

Teachers will find this site useful to plan lessons on many aspects of the Solar System and space.

http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/segwayed/

 

The Nine Planets: A Multimedia tour of the Solar System- an excellent introduction to the Solar System for students looking at Space Futures.

http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/tnp/

 

Solar System Simulator- This great site allows students to present a view of the sun, a planet or satellite as seen from another space object.

http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/

 

Solar System trading cards- A computer quiz game is the main part of the site, where students collect 'cards' by answering questions that identify planets and other objects. Good fun.

http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/trading-top-level.html

 

Zoom Astronomy- A comprehensive astronomy and space site. Interactive puzzles and quizzes for years 2-6.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/

 

Space Weather- Scary Stuff! Information on potentially hazardous asteroids. Students could use the information to look at possibilities for living in space.

http://www.spaceweather.com/

 

Space Exploration- History, Science, Human Physiology

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History of Space Exploration- This site highlights the extensive interest in space. It descibes the first lunar landing as told by the three astronauts.

http://www.solarviews.com/eng/histort.htm

 

Human Physiology in Space- This site focuses on the effects that travelling in space has on the body.

http://www.nsbri.org/HumanPhysSpace/

 

NASA Human Spaceflight- An extensive site which contains sections on space shuttles, the international space station, living in space and space news.

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/

 

NASA Space Science- Education - This site includes lesson plans on a range of science topics relating to the solar system and space.

http://spacescience.nasa.gov/education/educators/

 

National Space Society of Australia Ltd- This association comprises of people who wish to see civilisation extended to the solar system.

http://nssa.com.au

 

Project Starshine - is an international, low cost project which involves school students from around the world to polish the 1000 small mirrors which are attached to the satellite's shell to make it visible from Earth.

http://www.azinet.com/starshine/

 

Mathematics of the Solar System

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NASA Fundamentals: Mechanics - Teachers could use this site to introduce students to gravity and the basic maths of orbits

http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/toc.asp?s=Mechanics

 

Scale in the Solar System- A two part activity to build a scale model of the Solar System is the focus of these pages.

http://cosmos.colorado.edu/~urquhart/Scale/

 

Model Making- Scaling, Measuring, Ratio

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Scale model demonstrations of the Solar System- A useful site to help students gain an idea of the distances between planets and the sun.

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/K12/planetsize/planetsize.html

 

The Thousand-Yard Model or, the Earth as a Peppercorn- This model will give students an appreciation of the real distances between the planets

http://www.noao.edu/education/peppercorn/pcmain.html

 

Experimentation- Scientific Method, Hypothesising

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Critical Thinking and Scientific Method - Useful information on the teachinh of scientific method http://teachone.tripod.com/thinking
An Introduction to Science, Scientific Thinking and the Scientific Method- Discussion Paper

http://www.carleton.ca/~tpatters/teaching/climatechange/sciencemethod.html