Mission 1 Web Resources

The Constellations and their Stars - gives the mythological stories and which constellations you can see by month
http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/
constellations.html

Earth and Moon Viewer
http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html

Stanford Solar Center - activities using images of the Sun
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/lessons.html

Moon/Penny activity - Madison Metropolitan School District Planetarium and Observatory
http://www.madison.k12.wi.us/planetarium/mooncal/
moonfaq.htm

The Nine Planets
http://www.nineplanets.org

At Home Astronomy - UC Berkeley
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/AtHomeAstronomy/

Your Weight on Other Worlds
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/weight/

Understanding Light Years
http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/
itsawesome/lightyears/

Amazing Space
http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/resources/explorations/

 

 

General Resources

NASA
http://www.nasa.gov/

NASA Education
http://education.nasa.gov/home/

NASA Web of Life - Fundamental Space Biology Resources
http://weboflife.ksc.nasa.gov/

NSCORT at NC State University
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/nscort/

American Society for Gravitational and Space Biology
http://asgsb.indstate.edu/

Space Biology - An Educator's Resource (the site targets educators of undergraduate students, but it may serve as an excellent content resource for you.)
http://www.spacebio.net/

Ag in the Classroom
http://www.agclassroom.org/

Space Ag in the Classroom
http://www.spaceag.org/

Lunar-Mars Life Support Test Project
http://advlifesupport.jsc.nasa.gov/lmlstp.html

NASA Advanced Life Support website
http://advlifesupport.jsc.nasa.gov/

NASA Space Art Home Page - scroll down to link on advanced exploration art
http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/spaceart.html

NASA Image Exchange - real images from NASA expeditions
http://nix.nasa.gov/

For pictures and stories about the patches designed by
astronauts for historical and recent space missions
http://www.spacepatches.info

A great teacher resource site for all subjects.
http://www.sitesforteachers.com