Great Sites For Great Kids - Astronomy Great demonstration you can do; astronomy for kids A good place to start.astronomy for kids - another place with lots to learn here; In the Sky Tonight http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Tower/1217/third1.html
Extractions: Cosmic Quest - a great field guide to the universe Astronomy for Kids - These fact sheets are a good place to start. Constellations - diagrams of the figures they are supposed to represent. Mythology of the Constellations - becomes more interesting when you know the story Match the Constellations - Use this Shockwave game to test your knowledge. Connect the Stars - Can you draw the constellations? There are hints to help. Space Hopper Constellation Game - Can you identify these? Star Pronunciation Guide - with great line drawings too Zoom Astronomy - lots of visuals enhance the learning experience Views of the Solar System - really great pictures How do the Earth and Sun Move? - easy-to-understand explanation Field Guide to the Universe - good information from the children's Museum of Indianapolis Solar System Puzzle - test your knowledge Concentrate - Be sure to learn about the pictures too. Your Weight on Other Worlds - Do you know why we do weight the same on other planets? How Much Would You Weigh on another Planet?
The Space Place :: Home Demonstrates and explains scientific concepts related to astronomy in a fun, handson manner. http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/en/kids/
Astronomy For Kids Offers details about the size, the position and the movement of the planet. http://www.frontiernet.net/~kidpower/venus.html
Astronomy For Kids Venus Includes details about its location, its visibility, its size and its surface. http://www.dustbunny.com/afk/planets/venus/
Extractions: The second planet from the Sun has been named for the Roman goddess of love and beauty. When you see it in the morning or evening sky, or if you are lucky enough to have a telescope, you would agree with this name. However, if you were unfortunate enough to be dropped onto the surface of this planet, you would find that it is a very unpleasant place indeed. The atmosphere of Venus is made up almost entirely of clouds of sulfuric acid, the temperature stays constant at around nine hundred degrees Fahrenheit and winds on the surface blow constantly at hundreds of miles per hour. The atmospheric pressure on the surface of Venus is much like that in the ocean here on Earth at a depth of around half a mile.
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Astronomy For Kids Provides details about the composition, the position, the movement and the moons of the planet. http://www.frontiernet.net/~kidpower/uranus.html
Astronomy For Kids Uranus Offers details about the location, the visibility, the size and the rings of this planet. http://www.dustbunny.com/afk/planets/uranus/
Extractions: Uranus, along with Neptune and Pluto, is in the most distant region of our solar system. The giant planet, which is another of the gas giants of our solar system, is more than twice as far away from the Sun as Saturn. If you get a chance to look at Uranus through a telescope, all you will see is a faint blue disk that appears exceptionally dull and lifeless. Even pictures sent back by the Voyager mission and the Hubble Space Telescope seem to show that Uranus is a dull, unexciting place. As always, though, things aren't what they seem. Uranus has many interesting features, including its ring system, varied moons and much more. The bland face that the planet shows to us humans hides high speed winds, the fact that Uranus is tilted on its side and a very mysterious weather system. Read on to find out more about this mysterious world! Uranus from Voyager A picture of Uranus taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
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Astronomy For Kids Includes details about the size, the position, the movement and the moons of the planet. http://www.frontiernet.net/~kidpower/saturn.html
Astronomy For Kids Saturn Offers details regarding the location, the visibility, the size and the rings of the planet. http://www.dustbunny.com/afk/planets/saturn/
Extractions: What Galileo saw, although he didn't see it clearly, was the beautiful system of rings that surround the giant planet. His early telescope wasn't good enough to show details in the rings, so he wasn't quite sure what he was seeing, but he certainly realized that it was something very special. (Saturn was the first planet I ever saw through my telescope and I will never forget how stunning it was to see the rings for the first time.) The advantage that we have now is that we can see the rings of Saturn using almost any moderately priced telescope. A good telescope allows us to see that there isn't just one ring around Saturn, but that what appears to be one ring through a low powered telescope is revealed as a complicated system of rings through a good telescope.
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Astronomy For Kids Provides a picture and brief facts about the planet. http://www.frontiernet.net/~kidpower/pluto.html
Astronomy For Kids Pluto Includes details about its location and facts related to visibility, size, surface and its moons. http://www.dustbunny.com/afk/planets/pluto/
Extractions: As a matter of fact, there has been a lot of discussion about whether Pluto is a planet at all, given the fact that it is so tiny and its orbit is both an exaggerated ellipse and doesn't fall into the same plane as the orbits of the rest of the planets. If we had it to do over again, Pluto would probably not be classified as a planet, but as a large asteroid. We have been calling it a planet for so long it seems like a shame to change it now, though. Pluto is so far away that even the mighty Hubble Space Telescope can't get us a very good picture. The image at right is the best image to date we have of this distant world. Very little is known about Pluto except that it is very, very cold and exceptionally dark. At this distance, the Sun is very much like all the rest of the stars you would see from its surface.
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Astronomy For Kids Includes a picture and brief facts about this planet. http://www.frontiernet.net/~kidpower/mercury.html
Astronomy For Kids Mercury Provides details related to location, visibility, size, origin of its name and surface. http://www.dustbunny.com/afk/planets/mercury/
Extractions: Tiny Mercury is the second smallest planet in our solar system, only Pluto is smaller. As a matter of fact, there are two moons in the solar system that are larger than this planet! Jupiter's moon Ganymede and Saturn's moon Titan are both larger than the closest planet to the Sun. In addition, the surface temperature on Mercury varies widely, with the side of the planet facing the Sun having an average temperature of over 650 degrees Fahrenheit, while the "dark" side of the planet has an average temperature less than 270 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.
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Astronomy For Kids Includes a picture and brief facts about this planet. http://www.frontiernet.net/~kidpower/neptune.html
Astronomy For Kids Neptune Provides details about the location, the visibility and the moons of this planet. http://www.dustbunny.com/afk/planets/neptune/
Extractions: Neptune is the eighth planet from the Sun and, at this distance, the Sun looks a whole lot like the other stars that would be visible from this planet. Actually, there are times when Neptune is the furthest planet from the Sun. Pluto, which has a very elliptical orbit, is sometimes closer to the Sun that Neptune for a period of time, but, for the most part, Neptune is closer to the Sun than Pluto. Neptune was also the last planet visited by Voyager 2 before it left our solar system. Before the arrival of the Voyager mission in 1989, we knew very little about this planet because of its great distance from us. As usual, though, Voyager's visit gave us a lot of surprises. We found out that is was a very cold, windy place with very interesting clouds and a moon that actually had "geysers" something like the ones we have here on Earth. In addition, the history-making mission discovered an additional six moons that were unknown to us. All in all, Neptune turned out to be a big surprise to almost everybody. Neptune from Voyager A picture of Neptune taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft.