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The Wonderful World of Trees: http://www.domtar.com/arbre/english/start.htm
Earth's oldest living being: A Bristlecone Pine T ree http://www.sonic.net/bristlecone/intro.html
Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering: http://www.ai.mit
.edu/people/ellens/Gender/wom_and_min.html
Pennsylvania Dept of Environmental Protection lessons site: http://www.dep.state.pa.us/info.htm#P
National Association of Science Teachers http://www.nsta.org/
The Rainforest Action Network: http://www.ran.org/ran/
Endangered Species Home Page:
http://www.nceet.snre.umich.edu/EndSpp/Endangered.html
The Electronic Zoo: http://netvet.wustl.edu/e-zoo.htm
Internet resource for all lessons (science site):
http://www.inet-edu.com/lessons/links/sciencelessons.html
Cool spot for kids- promoted in newspapers nationwide: http://www.4kids.org/
PBS TeacherSource (more than 1000 free lesson plans and activities) http://www.pbs.org/teachersource
Educational Internet Links: http://www.studyweb.com/
Literature-related lesson plans: http://www.educ.ucalgary.ca/litindex/
Lessons plans on endangered species: http://www.nwf.org/wildlifeweek/
National Wildlife Week is April 16-22
The Franklin Institute Science Museum, Phila, PA: http://sln.fi.edu/
Lawrence Hall of Science: http://www.lhs.berkeley.edu/
The Science Learning Network: http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/sln/sln.html
Marshall Brain, creator of the How Stuff Works web site. A
great science resourse: http://www.howstuffworks.com
Pictures on the Internet: http://www.ditto.com/
Historical information about World holidays: http://www.holidays.net/
"Ask Jeeves" is a GREAT search engine on the internet: http://www.askjeeves.com/
Brian Jones at CSU-L ittle Shop of Physics: http://littleshop.physics.colostate.edu/
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/
NASA Student Involvment Program http://www.nsip.net
Astronomy Resource Center: http://www.thomson.com/
Athena Earth and Space Sciences Re source Center: http://athena.wednet.edu./
Earth and Sky: http://www.earthsky.com/
Hubble Heritage Project : http:
//heritage.stsci.edu
Views of the Solar System: http://planetscapes.com/
Space Science Institute: http://www-ssi.colorado.edu/
Space Calendar covers space-related activities and anniversaries
for the coming year: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/
GSOC Satellite Predictions: http://www.heavens-above.com/
Interesting facts, fun
activities and exciting contests for students in grades K-6: http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/
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Wondering where to find a good recipe
for a tasty solar system snack? Contemplating a cosmic purpose
for an unwanted compact disc (CD)? Trying to figure out how much
yarn it would take to reach an asteroid? Then look no further
than NASA's The
Space Place web site. Managed by
NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif.,
this web site provides interesting facts, fun activities and exciting
contests for students in grades K-6. By logging on, students become
active participants in NASA's exciting space exploration missions
through the web site's five categories:
In Make Spacey Things, you can learn how to transform a CD into a model Saturn decoration, how to cook tasty but scientific asteroid potatoes and how to create a relief map puzzle of the world. In Do Spacey Things, you can fall into a black hole, dive below the surface of Mars and participate in contests to give real names to asteroids or spacecraft. In Space Science in Action, you can name the trees on earth from space, make a super sound cone and solve an extraterrestrial riddle. Dr. Marc's Amazing Facts explains how far spacecraft travels, how planetary data is transmitted back to Earth and how space telescopes work. For example, it would take 88,000 tons of yarn to stretch from Earth to asteroid Braille -- or more than enough yarn to make sweaters for every person in the United States! In the Friends Share section, you can view the drawings and goals for life in the new millennium by others, and see if your local library or museum is a Club Space Place partner.
The Space Place is updated regularly with puzzles and games, fun space facts and scientific exercises about the latest breakthroughs and echnology from current and future space missions. The Space Place gives students the opportunity to fully explore the universe from their computers or, in some areas, from their local library or museum.
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