www.teach.science,Spring 1998 Science House Workshop

Use this list of links to browse science-related sites that could be used for classroom lessons. Remember you can use the Back button or Go in the menu bar to get back to pages you've left.

Sites for Earth and Space Sciences
`Earth Sciences`	`Investigating NC Plate Tectonics from M. Jesrani, Martin Middle School science teacher.` `El Niño weather curriculum` ncstormtrack is a partnership between WRAL and the News & Observer for weather information National Geophysical Data Center from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Kids as Global Scientists Weather Curriculum for middle schoolers Navstar: Global Positioning Satellite Anchor Page Hurricane Tracking from the University of Maryland Project Athena contains lesson plans relating to oceans, the atmosphere, earth resources, and space/astronomy. VolcanoWorld is an outstanding resource for learning about volcanoes. Weathernet web site contains a variety of weather maps, including satellite image maps, surface maps, and contour maps. Earth Science Resources from IMSEnet at NC State
`Space Sciences`	`Outer Orbit from Space News features chat and Ask an Astronomer.` `Live from the Stratosphere is a website for education from the Kuiper Airborne Observatory.` `StarChild is a learning center for young astronomers from the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center.` `Imagine the Universe is an astronomy website for high school from NASA.` `The Space Telescope Science Institute presents web-based activities in Amazing Space.` `Satellites, Computers, & Mapping is a GIS/GPS website from the students at Ligon Middle School.` `Dr. Fiorella Terenzi's Galaxy Spot has QuickTime movies on radioastronomy.` `Sharing NASA allows students to interact with NASA scientists and their research.` NASA's Planetary Photojournal gives easy access to photos from various solar system exploration programs. Public page for Hubble Space Telescope and Space Telescope Science Institute Galileo space probe home page--the exploration of Jupiter! The NASA Shuttle Web NASA Space Experiments Division from NASA's Microgravity Science Division Take a browse through the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center A site on Mars which features use of VRML, virtual reality on the Web. It requires a special plug-in to view. Main NASA page for Mars missions. Mars Pathfinder mission from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Space Views homepage Gradeschool Curriculum on Mars Colony The Nine Planets is an overview of each of the planets and moons in our solar system.

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