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British National Space Centre: Space Exploration
A resource on space exploration offering information on unmanned and manned missions as well as on each planet of the solar system and what we have learned about them in recent history.
Space Telescope Science Institute
Amazing Space: No Escape: The Truth About Black Holes
This site is for teachers or anyone interested in detailed information on black holes. Lesson plans are included as well as a grab bag of web images. Students have a chance to write and submit a paper on black holes and to explore the...
Curated OER
National Park Service: America's Space Program Exploring a New Frontier
This site includes a instructional activity for teachers to use when teaching about America's space program. Also included is the history of the space program, maps, readings, images of the space program, and benefits that resulted from...
NASA
Nasa Space Science Data Archive: Clementine Mission
Contains the official record of the Clementine mission's survey of the moon, with links to more detailed information about the spacecraft and its mission. Includes images of the mission and planets.
Government of Canada
Canadian Space Agency: Astronaut Life
This comprehensive site provides biographies of Canadian astronauts and describes their training process, missions and history. It also explores what it is like to live in space. There is even information about how to invite an astronaut...
Library of Virginia
Virginia Memory: Blank Space: Mapping the Unknown
How did early maps show the mapmakers' perception of the known world? Early mapmakers used maps drawn from coastal explorations, land travels, and even information heard word of mouth from American Indians or from colonists or traders....
Other
Southern Spaces: Overview: Religion and the Us South
This article explores the role of religion in forging the character of Southerners. It looks at different time periods, starting prior to 1830 and on up to 2000, and the many different historical events history that shaped religion in...
NASA
Dawn Mission: Dawn Classrooms: The History and Discovery of Asteroids
Student groups explore scientific breakthroughs and the development of technologies that eventually led to asteroid discovery aboard the Dawn space mission. Learning module components include jigsaw reading, model building, math...
Smithsonian Institution
National Air and Space Museum: Wright Brothers: Embracing the Impossible [Pdf]
In this lesson plan, students explore primary resources to see what people who lived in the early age of flight felt about this innovation. They then compare that response to that towards an invention of today.
Smithsonian Institution
National Air and Space Museum: Exploring the Planets: Ancient Times & the Greeks
In ancient times only five planets were known: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Learn about Greek astronomer Ptolemy's theory for the solar system that was to survive for fourteen centuries.
Smithsonian Institution
National Air and Space Museum: Explore the Universe
This resource explores the history of the universe and its explorers.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Ology: Astronomy: In Pictures: Beyond Planet Earth
What would it be like to travel across the solar system and explore space? Take a look at some of the places that humans might go to someday, and the questions that scientists are asking.
NASA
Nasa History Division
Learn about the history of NASA and what scientists have discovered about the Earth and space through NASA's explorations.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Stuff to Do: Space Travel Guide
What makes science fiction so exciting? Read some examples of the genre and then create your own science fiction story about space travel. Use the supplied "travel guide" to generate ideas and structure your plot.
Space Telescope Science Institute
Amazing Space: Star Light, Star Bright
An online exploration where students learn the basics about light and the properties of waves and the electromagnetic spectrum. Students will also learn how to measure wavelength and frequency so they can understand the electromagnetic...
Space Telescope Science Institute
Amazing Space: Galaxy Hunter
Journey to the wildest regions of space, and wrestle with cosmic giants, galaxies. Explore the Hubble Deep Fields from a statistical point of view.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: A Closer Look at Mars
If you look up at the sky on a clear night, you may see a red dot among the stars. This dot is Mars, named in ancient times after the Roman god of war. Although no one has ever visited this red planet, we know a lot about it. This site...
NASA
Nasa: Bibliography on Martian Exploration
This site from NASA provides a selected Annotated Bibliography on Martian Exploration presents classical Mars reading material from Percival Lowell and Alfred Russel Wallace from the turn of the last century, Werner von Braun and Willy...
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: What Do You Know? Astronomy
Take this ten-question self-scoring quiz to test your knowledge of astronomy facts: age of the universe, why stars and planets are spheres, where other life might exist in the outer space, the Milky Way, and more.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Ology: Astronomy: Are You Cut Out for Mars?
Do you have what it takes to go on a space mission to the Red Planet? Think you can handle it? Take this quiz to find out!
NASA
Nasa Space Science Data Archive: Lunar Exploration Timeline
Available in both HTML and Shockwave formats, this site is a visual timeline of US, Soviet, and Japanese Lunar exploration. Each point of the timeline links to text information about that spacecraft and mission.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Journey to Pluto, the Farthest World Ever Explored
Alan Stern explains how NASA's New Horizons mission will to allow us to see Pluto for the first time.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Solar System O Logy Card
Here's an Ology Card about the Solar System, offering a small image, a definition, and information on how "far out" our Solar System is. Includes questions to quiz your knowledge and quick facts about the Solar System's size, rotation...