Students can use this page as a jumping off page to do research on Spanish missions in California. There are numerous links to Scholastic articles and to other websites on subtopics such as missionaries, Franciscans and places in...

When fourth graders are required to learn their state history, this California teacher takes it across the curriculum implementing a project-based learning unit highlighting the Spanish Mission Era of California in the 18th and 19th...

NASA site details what sets Saturn apart from the other planets in our solar system and why the Cassini spacecraft mission is important.

The story of the Apollo 11 lunar landing is told with dramatic details, pictures, and mission highlights.

The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, a project to collect the most accurate topographic database for the Earth, is documented at this site.

A brief look at each of five Spanish missions established in the 1700s along the San Antonio River in California.

This site details the Spanish Franciscans missions established to bring Christianity to New Mexico over four hundred years ago and what they are doing today.

The growth of the logging industry and the town Mission, B.C. is profiled. Archival photographs and artifacts of the time are included.

Discusses the writing of mission, value, and vision statements. Discusses all the approaches you can use to write them.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is a Convert of the Mission, a selection about the 1800s Wild West.

This site from NASA provides a brief outline of the last Apollo mission to the moon, Apollo 17. Links to other NASA websites are available.

This site from the National Space Science Data Center provides information on the Giotto mission which was designed to study Comet P/Halley. The spacecraft encountered Halley on March 13, 1986 and approached to within 600 km. This page...

NASA summary of the first flight of the space shuttle Columbia in 1981.

Find background information about the life of Father Junipero Serra and his biographer, Father Francisco Palou. Read about the missions they established in California and their work in converting Native Americans to Christianity. Click...

Students find and calculate the angle that light is transmitted through a holographic diffraction grating using trigonometry. After finding this angle, student teams design and build their own spectrographs, researching and designing a...

NASA site surveys the satellite Cassini's mission to Saturn as well as the ejection of the Huygens probe.

This website tells about the emergence of secularization of Spanish California, which resulted in the decline of the missions.

A short synopsis of the top-secret rescue mission ordered by Carter to free the Americans held hostage in Iran.

This site, which is provided for by the German Aerospace Center, contains detailed information on missions to Mir from March '92 to March '97 displayed in the links below.

Detailed information about the Magellan Mission to Venus with images of major surface features and two images of the spacecraft.

Provides information on the mission of the Schutzstaffel. Includes the following sections: "The Law of Honour of the SS-man," "Blood and Soil," "Bolshevism Is No Transitory Phenomenon," and "The Schutzstaffel."

Students will plan a human expedition to the planet Mars. Through this project-based activity, they can choose to learn about the surface of Mars, the trip route, the analogical features between Mars and Earth, nutrition and exercise, or...

Find out about how planets have been classified historically, and what scientists use to study them.

A short history of the Shoshone people from prior to contact with European explorers up to 1870.