Recommended Websites – Earth in Space
The following websites have been reviewed by teachers like you, to add to your resources for
teaching this unit. You will find sites for both teachers and students. Please let us know if you have
any issues with any of the sites or if the links are corrupted. Contact us. Thank you. Rev. 11/2014
Overview:
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/space_missions/overview.html-includes "ask a scientist"
Background knowledge:
http://www.mjjsales.com/articles/basic-facts-about-the-sun.html
Universe and Galaxies:
http://www.worldwidetelescope.org
What are galaxies and how do they form?:
http://science.hq.nasa.gov/universe/science/galaxies.html
Milky Way:
http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/gal_milky.html
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/astro/galax.html
Sun:
http://www.nineplanets.org/sol.html
Layers of the sun:
http://fusedweb.pppl.gov/CPEP/Chart_Pages/5.Plasmas/SunLayers.html
http://www.space.com/sun/
Moon:
http://www.nineplanets.org/luna.html
Planets:
Mercury:
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/mercury.htmhttp://www.nineplanets.org/mercury.html
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/mercury/mercury.html
Venus:
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/venus.htm
http://www.nineplanets.org/venus.html
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/venus/venus.html
Earth:
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/earth.htm
http://www.nineplanets.org/earth.html
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/earth.html
Astronaut Photography:
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/
Mars:
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/mars.htm
http://www.nineplanets.org/mars.html
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/mars/mars.html
Jupiter:
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/jupiter.htm
http://www.nineplanets.org/jupiter.html
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/jupiter/jupiter.html
Saturn:
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/saturn.htm
http://www.nineplanets.org/saturn.html
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/saturn/saturn.html
Uranus:
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/uranus.htm
http://www.nineplanets.org/uranus.html
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/uranus/uranus.html
Neptune:
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/neptune.htm
http://www.nineplanets.org/neptune.html
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/neptune/neptune.html
Pluto: (no longer a planet)
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/pluto.htm
Stars:
http://science.hq.nasa.gov/universe/science/stars.html
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l2/stars.html
Different stars:
http://www.kidsastronomy.com/stars.htm
Missions -Overview:
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/space_missions/overview.html
Human space flight:
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/space_missions/manned.html
Launch records:
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/missions.html
Famous Astronomers:
http://www.space.com/16095-famous-astronomers.html
Commonly Asked Questions and Answers:
http://amazingspace.stsci.edu/resources/qa/galaxies.php.p=Astronomy+basics%40%2Ceds%2Castronomybasics.php&a=%2Ceds
Hands on Activities - Build a Solar System:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/solar_system/index.html
Galaxy Mapping:
http://www.reachoutmichigan.org/funexperiments/agesubject/lessons/newton/GlxyMpng.html
Assessment - Space:
http://www.pitara.com/activities/quiz/online.asp?qname=space
Space School Musical:
http://discovery.nasa.gov/musical/cool.html
Amazing Space:
http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/resources/explorations/index.shtml