Teacher Resources For The Classroom astronomy for Kids Designed with elementary students in mind, The Sun - AVirtual Tour of the sun with lots of facts, mini movies, and pictures. http://www.kenton.k12.ky.us/TR/science.html
Extractions: ELEMENTARY Anatomy Inventions Astronomy ... Graphing Paper ELEMENTARY Anatomy Bones, Bones, and More Bones - A Virtual Treasure Hunt for interesting and important information about your skeletal system and bones. How the Body Works - Sponsored by the Kid Health Organization, these pages have information on all the body systems. How the Body Works - Sponsored by the Kid Health Organization, these pages have information on all the body systems. Heart: A Virtual Exploration - Students can explore the heart's development and structure, circulatory system and function, and health. There are lesson plans, quizzes, resources, activities, and a glossary of terms. Heart Preview Gallery - Listen to a heart murmur. Watch open heart surgery. It's All in the Brain - Tutorials on all of the brain's roles of hearing, seeing, and smelling. What's That Smell? The Nose Knows - How do you smell a pair of dirty gym socks? How can you tell when your mom is baking cookies? You can find the information to answer these and many more questions. Your Gross and Cool Body Get the answers to all your questions from the Yuckiest Site on the Internet.
Anatomy Of A Telescope - Subaru Telescope Project On Mauna Kea astronomy A Beginner s Guide to the Universe, Fourth Edition We begin ourvirtual tour of Subaru Telescope at 13796 feet above sea level at the summit http://www.instanthawaii.com/cgi-bin/hawaii?Astronomy.anatomy
Astronomy On The Net astronomy on the Net Ardis Maciolek Grosse Point North High School A nicevirtual tour of one of our most well known optical observatories, http://www.msta-mich.org/publications/newsletter/feb98/astronomy.html
Extractions: One of the starting points for NASA information, this page contains links to galleries (photo, audio and video), educational resources, human spaceflight, and much more. Today @ NASA gives you the newest, hottest info and discoveries. Mission to Planet Earth contains archives of ocean and atmospheric data and images. NASA Spacelink NASA Quest http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/ Quest is the jump site for the interactive student online projects described later in the Educational section of this document. 2. Jet Propulsion Laboratory - http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ This is the main NASA center for planetary research probes and their data. Good for solar system images, planetary probe mission updates, technology research. A nice education archive gives lots of background info and lesson plan ideas. One of the main reasons for hitting JPL is to check on the status of the ongoing and future NASA solar system missions, such as the Cassini, Galileo, Mars and Europa missions. See the Solar System section of this document for specific addresses and comments. 3. Hubble Space Telescope -
LodeStar Astronomy Center - Current Shows The LodeStar astronomy Center is a University of New Mexico project Passport tothe Universe is a 20minute grand tour of the observable universe. http://www.lodestar.unm.edu/shows.html
Extractions: in the LodeStar Planetarium The LodeStar Astronomy Center announces the premiere of a dazzling new planetarium feature, Passport to the Universe. The cinematic, full-dome production was created by the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, in collaboration with NASA; written by Ann Druyan and Steven Soter, the co-authors of the classic PBS series Cosmos; scored by film composer Stephen Endelman; and narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks. Each Passport show is preceded by a 20-minute live prologue that uses the concept of a 'cosmic address' to help audiences understand their place in the cosmos. The prologue closely examines some of the fascinating celestial objects found in the solar system, Milky Way, and Virgo Supercluster. Daily: 12:00, 1:00, 2:00 and 3:00 p.m.
