Mission 5 Web Resources

NASA Farming in Space
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/space/challenge/learning/farming/

NASA Article on How Plants Sense Gravity
http://weboflife.ksc.nasa.gov/currentResearch/current
ResearchFlight/spaceSpirals.htm

USDA Nutrients List for Common Foods
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/Data/SR15
wtrank/wt_rank.html

USDA Food Guide Pyramid
http://www.mypyramid.gov/

NC Cooperative Extension - Resources on Crops
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/resources/crops/

Whole Foods Market Fruit and Vegetable Nutrition Info
http://wholefoodsmarket.com/healthinfo/list_library.html

Space Food and Nutrition
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/
Space_Food_and_Nutrition_Educator_Guide_prt.htm

Watch your Garden Grow - University of Illinois Extension
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/veggies/index.html

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

NASA
http://www.nasa.gov/

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

NASA Quest Chat with a nutritionist at Johnson
Space Center
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/space/chats/archive/
davis_chat3.html

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