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BBC

Bbc News: Animated Guide: The Rosetta Mission

For Students 9th - 10th
This brief animated guide to the Rosetta mission allows you to see how it is going to get to the comet, and then what it will do once it arrives there.
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NASA

Nasa: Astronaut Biography: Michael Collins

For Students 9th - 10th
Official NASA biography of astronaut, Michael Collins, who served on the Gemini 10 and Apollo 11 space missions.
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NASA

Nasa: Astronaut Biography: Edward H. White, Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
Official NASA biography of astronaut, Edward H. White II, killed in the Apollo spacecraft flash fire during a launch pad test in 1967.
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NASA

Nasa Space Place: What Is an Exoplanet?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Defines exoplanets and explains how astronomers go about looking for them.
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NASA

Bumping Into a New Friend

For Students Pre-K - 1st
On July 4, 2005 a probe collided with comet Tempel 1. This site is for younger children who would like to understand more about this comet or just comets in general. It's designed to look like a story book and is quite basic.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Carl Sagan

For Students 9th - 10th
This encyclopedia article from Wikipedia provides a brief biography of Carl Sagan, the American astronomer who pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), and science in general.
Interactive
Math Science Nucleus

I. Science Ma Te: Integrating Science, Math and Technology

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site offers a wealth of online textbook-related materials that encourage the discovery of science in the world around us. Enter the site to access material on specific topics. Each section contains reading material (complete with...
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NASA

Nasa: Kepler: A Search for Habitable Planets: Transit Tracks

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Classroom lesson for teaching astronomy uses PowerPoint presentations and illustrations of Kepler's light curves used to discover planets.
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NASA

Nasa: Astronaut Biography: Mae C. Jemison

For Students 9th - 10th
Official NASA biography of astronaut, Mae C. Jemison, the first African American woman admitted into the astronaut training program.
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NASA

Nasa: Make a Star Finder

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learning game and activity that teaches about the constellations by making a star finder to help locate them.
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NASA

Nasa: Deep Impact Slideshow

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow chronicles the mission to analyze Tempel 1. It begins with the launch on January 12 and ends with an artist's rendering of the anticipated result. Video and links are also included.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Nasa vs. Space X What's the Difference?

For Students 9th - 10th
What are the differences and similarities between NASA and SpaceX? The Infographics Show explores the differences between the two.
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NASA

Nasa: Nasa's Carl Sagan Fellows to Study Extraterrestrial Worlds

For Students 9th - 10th
NASA announces the new Carl Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowships in Exoplanet Exploration, created to inspire the next generation of explorers seeking to learn more about planets, and possibly life, around other stars.
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NASA

Nasa: Saturn Arrival

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource outlines Cassini's arrival at Saturn. Describes in specific detail it's approach, arrival and orbit.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Journey to Pluto, the Farthest World Ever Explored

For Students 9th - 10th
Alan Stern explains how NASA's New Horizons mission will to allow us to see Pluto for the first time.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Lost in Space a Solar System Study

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
During this technology based lesson, students navigate the Internet to learn interesting information about the solar system. They use the information to complete a worksheet and to create a puzzle or challenge for their classmates.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Madagascar: What Is the Solar System?

For Students 2nd - 4th
Patrick loves being a pirate, but he'd prefer to be an astronomer. Join him, and learn about everything high in the sky like the moon, stars, and asteroids.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Why Can't We See Evidence of Alien Life

For Students 9th - 10th
Chris Anderson presents an animated exploration of the famous Fermi Paradox and questions why we haven't yet seen apparent signs of alien life. [6:04]
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Ministerio de Educación (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: Instrumentacion Astronomica Modulo I Unidad 2

For Students 9th - 10th
In this unit you will combine all the major components of a telescope to obtain the desired system for different types of astronomical observations.
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Ministerio de Educación (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: Instrumentos Auxiliaries Modulo I Unidad 3

For Students 9th - 10th
In this unit you will learn the main advantages and disadvantages offered by the refractor and reflector telescopes for a particular observation. You will also learn about the main types of telescopes.
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Ministerio de Educación (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: Diagrama H R Modulo Ii Unidad 3

For Students 9th - 10th
In this unit you will study the different types of luminosity, the effective temperature of the stars and the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram.
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Ministerio de Educación (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: Espectros Estelares Modulo Ii Unidad 2

For Students 9th - 10th
In this module you will study the composition of stars. You also will be able to classify them through the virtual observatory.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Curiosity Got Us to Mars

For Students 9th - 10th
In August 2012, the Curiosity rover landed on Mars. The landing itself was a huge achievement and required a lot of forethought and planning by a very smart team. Bobak Ferdowsi, the mohawked member of that team, outlines various aspects...
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American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: The Astronomy Center

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A searchable collection of "curriculum materials, images, classroom demonstration, learning resources, evaluation instrumnets, and articles about approaches to astronomy education". Users can contribute materials by creating a free account.

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