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Amazing Space
[ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - Collection of web-based activities designed for classroom use, but made available for everyone to enjoy. |
Building an Inexpensive Galilean Style Telescope
[ Mature Teens ] - Students at Rice University explain how they re-created the telescope that Galileo used to make the first ever magnified views of the stars and planets... and all for less than 30 dollars. |
Cassini Kid's Page
[ Teens ] - Spacecraft Cassini is on its way to Saturn. Download the parts and instructions to build a paper model of the Cassini space probe. Find Saturn in the sky and discover more about this exciting adventure in space. |
Eyes on the Sky, Feet on the Ground
[ Kids ] - This collection of children's online astronomy activities, is a product of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Designed for grades 2 to 6, it contains hundreds of fun explorations into astronomy as a classroom tool for learning how to theorize, experiment, and analyze data. |
Mars: Just For Kids
[ Kids ] - An official NASA site with games and activities for kids interested in interplanetary travel - especially to Mars. |
NASA for Kids
[ Kids ] - Has games, stories and activities about space and aeronautics. |
Powers of 10
[ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Discover the relative size of everything in the universe. Beginning with a 1 metre square, each successive page jumps back 10 times until you are a billion light years away. Lots of good activities and information. Based on the Eames film of the same name. |
Project Starshine
[ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - Your school can help to build a satellite which will be launched from the Space Shuttle. You can track the Starshine satellites from your back yard. |
Scale in the Solar System
[ Teens ] - Instructions and teacher guides for making scale models of the Solar System, Saturn, and comets. |
Walk the Solar System
[ Teens ] - JavaScript calculator of sizes and distances of solar system bodies for making a scale model. |
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