NASA Resources on the Web
http://www.nasa.gov/
Elementary
Developed in partnership with the Cassini-Huygens Education and Public
Outreach Program, the Bay Area Writing Project/California Writing Project,
Foundations in Reading Through Science & Technology (FIRST), and the
Caltech Pre-College Science Initiative (CAPSI), and classroom educators,
"Reading, Writing, and Rings" blends the excitement of space exploration with
reading and writing.
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/education/edu-k4.cfm
What is the 21st Century Explorer? NASA's 21st Century Explorer is a 3rd-5th
grade standards-based program that uses the Web, animation, and video to
introduce science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and NASA space
exploration concepts.
http://education.jsc.nasa.gov/explorers/
Middle School
Free Web Seminar – Living and Working in Space
http://learningcenter.nsta.org/products/symposia_seminars/fall07/NASA_Detroit/
webseminar.aspx
NASA 50th Anniversary Essay Contest
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/58/features/F_Essay_Competition.html
ISS EarthKAM is a NASA sponsored program that provides stunning, high
quality photographs of our planet taken from the Space Shuttle and International
Space Station.
http://www.earthkam.ucsd.edu/
NASA CONNECT™ is an annual series of FREE integrated math, science, and
technology programs for students in grades 6–8.
http://connect.larc.nasa.gov/episodes.html
All Levels
Spooky Sounds from Space
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/sounds/?msource=enews102805&tr=y&auid=
1197511
Our NASA Glenn Educational Resource Center (ERC). Receive NASA
educational materials, posters or copy videotapes for free.
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/education/ERC_GRC.html
NASA Educational activities by subject
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbysubject/index.
html
NASA Brainbites – videos answering kids questions about NASA and Space
http://brainbites.nasa.gov/
NASA Kid’s Club – activities and information for kids
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/home/index.html
NASA Mission Planer – quiz about current missions
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/MissionPlanner/MissionPlanner.html
Skywatch – See when a satellite will be flying overhead
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/index.html
Earth’s Moon Extra
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/schedule/extrathemes/F_Eart
hs_Moon_Extra.html
NASA Glenn Flight e-Simulations Page
http://education.grc.nasa.gov/esimulations/
NASA Multimedia Page – see the California wildfires from space
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/highlights/index.html
NASA Quest Challenges are FREE Web-based, interactive explorations
designed to engage students in authentic scientific and engineering processes.
The solutions relate to issues encountered daily by NASA personnel.
http://quest.nasa.gov/index.html
Digital Learning Network
We’ll have equipment next month in order to regularly participate in these events.
See what’s available and schedule one after the first week of December.
http://education.nasa.gov/divisions/techprodoffice/programs/dln.html