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National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (Ncesse)
An organization committed to promoting education in the earth and space sciences. Highlights current research, projects students can participate in, professional development opportunities, and educational programs, such as visiting...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Earth & Space Science
This course is composed of eight sessions, each with a one-hour video program addressing a topic area in Earth and Space Science that emphasizes the science content that is likely to be part of any elementary school science curriculum.
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Visual Satellite Observer: Mir Space Station's 15 Years in Space Ends
Details of Mir's re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere after 15 years in space. Includes information on Mir's mission, configuration, and history.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Ants in Space
Capture your own ants, build your own inexpensive ant habitat, and compare the communication and exploratory behaviors of pavement ants on Earth to those living on the ISS.
Project Britain
Primary Homework Help: Earth and Space Quiz
This resource provides information about Earth and space. In addition, there is a quiz provided.
Texas A&M University
Human Physiology in Space
Learn about some of the environmental challenges facing humans in space.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Astronomy: Our Place in Space
This resource is a place for learning all about astronomy--stargazing, planets, space science, and interesting astronomical phenomena and discoveries. Explore, ask questions, find information, and meet American Museum of Natural History...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Life in Space: The International Space Station
Students are introduced to the International Space Station (ISS) with information about its structure, operation and key experiments. The ISS itself is an experiment in international cooperation to explore the potential for humans to...
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Space weather.com
Want to know what the current weather conditions are in space? Find everything here you may want to know about the latest solar flares, sunspots, asteroids and more. Site also includes essential web links to quench any user's thirst for...
Read Works
Read Works: What's Up in Space?
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about outer space. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Objects in Space
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about some of the objects circling the Earth. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Children's Museum
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Beyond Spaceship Earth
This unit of study explores the International Space Station through STEM experiences in space science education. Students become a spacecraft crew and launch from Earth to discover how microgravity affects the orbit of the International...
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Is There Life in Space?
In this investigation, students will explore whether or not there can be life outside of Earth by using planet hunting models to discover how scientists find new planets. They will perform simulated spectroscopic measurements to...
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Earth and Sky: Would You Step Out Into Space?
Imagines what it is like to travel to space and what you can see through the window of a spacecraft. Book includes audio narration in 14 additional languages with text in English.
National Earth Science Teachers Association
Windows to the Universe: Junk in Space
Did you know that International Space Station used to release its trash into space? There is a lot of junk orbiting around Earth! In this game, you are asked to capture eleven examples of the junk that is floating in space but be careful...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Not So Lost in Space
Students learn how engineers navigate satellites in orbit around the Earth and on their way to other planets in the solar system. In accompanying activities, they explore how ground-based tracking and onboard measurements are performed....
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Fifth Grade Science: Earth Science: Earth's Motion in Space
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses the motion of the Earth with its day and night cycle, the seasons, the Earth's orbit around the Sun, and its year-long cycle.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian: Earth From Space
You may not have seen the monsoon rains in India or Mount Taranaki in New Zealand, but thanks to the Smithsonian's online exhibit, it's easy to observe the earths natural and man made features. Click on "Online Exhibition" to view and...
Chem4kids
Chem4 Kids: Chemistry in Space
Anywhere there is matter there is chemistry, therefore chemistry is found all over the universe, not only here on Earth. In fact, scientists have even discovered organic chemistry in other galaxies.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Space Weather Research Explorer
Explore weather phenomena that occur in space. Topics covered include coronal holes, coronal mass ejections, solar flares, solar wind, the magnetosphere, auroras, and how space weather affects us on Earth.
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Hydrogen
Information about the first element on the periodic table, Hydrogen, atomic number 1. Covers its history, sources, physical and atomic properties, places it occurs naturally on the Earth and in space, its many uses, and forms in which it...
Read Works
Read Works: Earth Helpers
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about working together to make the Earth a better place. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
BBC
Bbc Newsround: One in Five Suns Has Habitable World
Using the Kepler telescope, NASA scientists have estimated that one in five of suns in space host an Earth-like planet in what is called the habitable zone.
European Space Agency
European Space Agency: Esa Kids
Multilingual site with articles, news. images, games, and activities about the universe, life in space, the Earth, space exploration, and related topics.