[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage describes the solar system's dwarf planet named Haumea. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...

Excellent resource for "paper-plate" activities that help simplify various astronomy topics. Learn how to build a "Moon Finder" and "Planet Pointer," and create a paper-plate model that explains the Transit of Venus.

After learning seven space-themed vocabulary words, students will go on a space adventure collecting socks. After completing five levels, students will test their new knowledge by matching five words with the pictures that show their...

Can you help a cow plot a path out of the Milky Way? This hilarious space game is for all ages and is offered by HubbleSite. Users may pick their level of expertise and can choose from novice, pretty smart about space, or an astrobrainiac.

Through this story you will be introduced to outer space: stars, the Milky Way, planets, the Solar System, the Sun, clouds of dust and gas, galaxies.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a middle school science lesson on the Sun. Activote questions are included. Submitted for Lucinda Schlotterback, in Sarasota County, FL.

A large photo of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system.

The official site for the "leading organization of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the field of investigations of Outer Space, Solar System planets and other objects of the Universe"

This site from NASA's Space Place is geared towards early elementary learners. It offers detailed instructions for crafts and activities related to space, games and a teacher resource area. Students can also ask an expert at this site.

Besides an introduction to exhibitions and events at the museum, the site provides a guide to stargazing, an astronomy FAQ, space news, virtual tours (see site map) and research resources (including Chinese-English star and constellation...