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NASA-MSU/Bozeman
CERES Project- btc.montana.edu/ceres
Best for: K-8 Teachers
General Description: List of activities divided up by grade level (K-4, 5-8), the time it takes to comlete the lab, and which of the 4 NASA themes it involves (Structure and Evolution of the Universe, Exploration of the Solar System, The Search for Origins, and The Sun-Earth Connection), each activity has several parts and includes learner objectives, National Science and Math Standards that are met, background, teacher lesson plans, and extensions of the labs, retreivable data from the missions for analyzation and photos of the launches.
Curriculum Involved: Solar System, Space Exploration.
Learning Activities: Investigating the Dynamic Martian Polar Caps, Birthday Moons, Changing Faces:A Study of Solar and Planetary Rotation Rates, and more.
Math Integration: Conic sections, Shapes, Comparing Values, Classifying, Patterns, Prediction, Estimation, Calculations with basic operations.
Research Material: None except for background information for the activities
Pictures: A few photos of the launches of different missions.
Navigation and Hot Spots: Educational Activities, Classroom Resources.
Astronomy
with a Stick- http://www.nsta.org/publications/interactive/
General Description: Set of outdoor activities to span over the full school year divided into 3 in-depth sections, the activities move from general observation, to quantitative data taking, to modeling, each section has a glossary of terms.
Curriculum Involved: Earth's Rotation and its effects.
Learning Activities: Tracking a Moving Shadow, The Rise and Fall of Daylight Hours, and more.
Math Integration: Graphing, Charts, 3-D Modeling, Basic Geometry.
Research Material: None
Pictures: None
Navigation and Hot Spots: Click on the Unit then the activity of choice.
Everyday Classroom Tools-
hea-www.harvard.edu/ECT/index.htm
Best for: K-6 Teachers
General Description: Stresses the inquiry process, Adobe Acrobat formatted activities with modifications for different cognitive stages of development (K-2, 2-4, 4-6) based on skill level and motivation, graphics to illustrate the labs.
Curriculum Involved: Inquiry Process, Sun, Light, Weather, Cycles.
Learning Activities: To Seek of Not to Seek?, Me and My Shadow, Time Warp, Tilt-A-World, and more.
Math Integration: Shapes, Angles, Length, Triangles, Basic Geometry, Fractions, Averages.
Research Material: None except for background information given in the activities.
Pictures: None
Navigation and Hot Spots: The Threads of Inquiry -> Next, or Click on the ECT Icon to go to the Table of Contents.
Planetary
Photojournal: NASA's Image Access Home Page- http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov
Best for: K-8 Teachers
General Description: Compilation of images of all parts of the Solar System from all different instruments/crafts, perform searches by spacecraft, feature, date, or organized sets, image shown with original caption description (more advanced reading).
Curriculum Involved: Everything in the Solar System.
Learning Activities: None
Math Integration: None
Research Material: None except for background information given in the captions.
Pictures: This entire website is images from spacecrafts
Navigation and Hot Spots: Perform a search.
Online from Jupiter-
quest.arc.nasa.gov/galileo/index.htm
Best for: 6-8 Teachers
General Description: Journals of astronauts and description of Jupiter spacecraft, activities focus on observation.
Curriculum Involved: Spacecrafts/Space Exploration, Geology of Jupiter and its moons.
Learning Activities: Study and Interpret New Images of New Worlds, Design a Spacecraft to Test for Life on Europa, When Will the Probe Get Squashed?, and more.
Math Integration: None
Research Material: None except for background information given in the activities.
Pictures: Pictures of the Galileo probe (both real and depicted), images of Jupiter from Galileo (close, distant, detailed, color, and black and white).
Navigation and Hot Spots: Featured Activities, Galileo Team, and the Photo Gallery.
Live From Earth and Mars-
www-k12.atmos.washington.edu/k12Best for: K-8 Teachers
General Description: Contributed to by other teachers and educators, list of activities/discussions grouped by subject (These activities involve a recording of answers to questions posed on the web page that would probably be best completed as class discussion.), some long term projects, background about Mars with mission information.
Curriculum Involved: Meterology and Space, Rockets and Exploration, Rocks and Soil, Weather.
Learning Activities: Virtual Sojourner, Digging the Dirt, Let it Snow!, and more.
Math Integration: Modeling, Measuring.
Research Material: Background information on Mars that addresses weather, missions, and topography.
Pictures: A few images of the surface of Mars.
Navigation and Hot Spots: Featuring Mars Science and Engineering, K-12 Curricular Materials -> Educational Modules.
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