Web Resources

These resources are included as a source of information and activities for both you and your students. Please send additional resources that you have found useful during Agronaut training to agronauts@ncsu.edu

General Resources
Mission 1
Mission 2
Mission 3
Mission 4
Mission 5
Mission 6

General Resources

NASA
http://www.nasa.gov/

NASA Spacelink - Educator resource page
http://www.spacelink.nasa.gov/

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

Mission 1

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/

Mission 2

Videos of Plant Tropisms
http://sunflower.bio.indiana.edu/~rhangart/plantmotion
movements/tropism/tropisms.html

The Great Plant Escape
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/

Wisconsin Fast Plants
http://www.fastplants.org

Plants in Space - article by NASA
http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/news/2003/news-plants.asp

Wilderness Survival - Edible and Medicinal Plants
http://www.wilderness-survival.net/Appb.php

Mission 3

The Great Plant Escape - Case 2 is on soils
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/

Soil Science Education Home Page
http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/globe/index.htm

Worm Digest - Young Person's Guide to Vermicomposting
http://www.wormdigest.org/article_12.html

Taunton Press - Compost Tea recipe (3-day)
http://www.taunton.com/finegardening/pages
g00030_p3.asp

Soil Inquiry - Compost Tea recipe (1-day)
http://www.ncsu.edu/kenan/fellows/2001/
Tea/StudentPPT.html

Mission 4

Imagers - resources for understanding light
http://imagers.gsfc.nasa.gov/teachersite/ULresources.htm

The Universe in the Classroom - resource on convection
and heat in relation to space
http://www.astrosociety.org/education/publications/tnl/
28/28.html

Riverdeep - Resources on the Nature of Light
http://www.riverdeep.net/current/2002/01/010702_
light_to.jhtml

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

Mission 5

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://schoolmeals.nal.usda.gov/py/pmap.htm

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://spacelink.nasa.gov/products/Space.Food.
and.Nutrition/

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

Mission 6

NASA
http://www.nasa.gov/

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