Astronomy Projects
Projects:
1.
2.
1.
2.
5.
Subjects:
3.
Mercury
4.
Venus
6.
Mars
7.
Jupiter
8.
Moons of Jupiter
9.
Saturn
10.
Moons of Saturn
11.
Uranus
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
PowerPoint video the solar system the sun
Earth and moon
Neptune
Pluto asteroids and comets
Kuiper Belt and Oort
Cloud
NASA
Apollo program
18.
The Moon Landing
Hoax
19.
Pioneer/Voyager
20.
Galileo (the spacecraft)
21.
Cassini (the spacecraft)
22.
Deep Space 1
23.
Dawn
24.
New Horizons
25.
Spaceship One/Two
(VSS Enterprise)
(Virgin Galactic)
26.
Mars rovers
27.
NASA ATHLETE,
SCARAB, LER
28.
NEAR
29.
ISS
30.
Robonaut
31.
Skylab
32.
Ulysses
33.
SOHO
34.
Genesis
35.
Hubble Space Telescope
36.
Spitzer Space Telescope
37.
James Webb Telescope
38.
Fermi Gamma Ray
Telescope
39.
Chandra X-Ray
Observatory
40.
Gravity Probe B
41.
GRACE
42.
SWIFT & GRB’s
43.
KEPLER Mission-A
Search for Habitable
Planets
44.
KECK Observatory
45.
Deep Space Network
46.
The Space Shuttle
Program
47.
Exo-planets
48.
galaxies
49.
nebulae (all kinds)
50.
stars (main sequence)
51.
white dwarfs, brown dwarfs, red giants
52.
quasars, neutron stars, black holes
53.
Galileo (the man) and
Copernicus
Sources:
 Astronomy Picture of the Day: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
 AP of Day (Archives): http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html http://science.nasa.gov/default.htm
 The Nine Planets: http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/
 Planetary Pictures: http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/picturelist.html
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SEDS Galaxy of Images: http://www.seds.org/galaxy/
 Views of the Solar System: http://www.hawastsoc.org/solar/homepage.htm
Marshall Space Sciences Home Page: http://science.msfc.nasa.gov
 Hubble Space Telescope Public Information: http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/ http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/index.html
http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov/ http://near.jhuapl.edu/ http://www.seds.org/messier/xtra/ngc/other-o.html#elli http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/objects/agn/agntext.html
http://www.karen.danielson.name/main/explorespacedanielson.html
http://www.space.com/

All students will prepare a slideshow or video presentation, 3-5 minutes in length. Topics will be assigned
Friday, May 17. Slideshow presentations must include sound. All sound should enhance the presentation rather than detract from it. Don’t just put in sound effects at the slide transitions. Bring in your presentation early on a flash drive or CD. Presentations are due on or before Friday, May 24. We will present to the class beginning
Tuesday, May 28. All videos must have YOU in them, making the presentation. Any music included must be cited as to the artist and publishing label (whose music is it?). No rap music. No language unsuited for school.
Put all your pictures and sounds into a folder, and then create the slideshow in that folder, using the sounds and pictures from the folder. Otherwise, your slideshow will wind up without sound, looking for it on your
(unavailable) home computer. Finish early and do a test run to be sure it’s done right. Presentation day is too late to be correcting mistakes.
Do this right, and it’s an easy A on a test grade (project grades are in the test column).