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Earth from Space @ Smithsonian Institution
In this online exhibit, see our amazing planet from the perspective of an orbiting satellite. Includes lesson plans and resources.
Space Weather
News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids. Searching by dates, to find archived news stories and check out amazing images and links to external resources.
Challenger Center: For Teachers
Using space as a theme, our programs get students excited about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Asteroid Impact Simulation
This simulation allows you to type in variables of an asteroid impact. How big the asteroid is, how fast it’s traveling, its impact angle, what kind of surface it hits and more. Then you can calculate the effects and find out the crater dimensions, thermal radiation and much more. Each is explained in detail.
Virtual Visits
Whether you want to tour the Alamo, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, or even the Kennedy Space Center, this page has links to dozens of virtual visits.
Map-a-Planet
Customize and download your own image maps of the Moon, Mars, Venus, and other planets and moons.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Contains links to sites about weather, space, oceans, climate change and marine animals. The website also has real-time satellite images and career information.
Sun-Earth Viewer
Very interesting images of the sun captured by telescopes and NASA's Spacecraft. There are also video clips. The site was by NASA and the University of California at Berkeley.
Scivee TV
SciVee, the so-called YouTube for science, features research papers and accompanying video in which authors can demonstrate and explain their work in simple terms that everyone can understand. The new video-sharing site, created by and for scientists, presents a platform where researchers and lecturers can produce multimedia presentations of their work.
Amazing Space
Reveal the beauty and wonder of the cosmos to your students with this comprehensive listing of all of our interactive activities, graphic organizers, science content reading selections, and more.
Bonus Links
Fun Brain
Play games centered on practicing your math skills. Play games like math baseball or "Math Brain." "Math Brain" has grade levels from K-8.
Designer In Training
Advice for teens who are really into fashion and want to "break into the fashion world." This article gives practcal information you can actually use!
Epublishing
A great resource of links and guides on how to not only write an Ebook, but where to distribute it.
Reconstruction: The Second Civil War
Website developed by PBS explaining how the United States was reconstructed after the devastation of the Civil War.
Every-Day Edit
Use Every-Day Edits to build language skills, test scores, and cultural literacy with students in grades 4 and above.