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Aeronautics Learning Laboratory for Science, Technology and Research.
http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/
Web based activities designed for the classroom.
http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/
American Rivers is a national non-profit conservation organization dedicated to protecting and restoring healthy natural rivers and the variety of life they sustain for people, fish, and wildlife." Visit this site to study rivers close to where you live!
http://www.americanrivers.org/
Arctic Alive is a distance-learning environment for learners. Although the actual interaction with researchers has already taken place, teachers can use the backgroud materials on the arctic, earth systems, and climate with students.
http://www.arcus.org/arcticalive/index.html
This multimedia website deals with NASA careers and astrobiology research. The concept is to search for and design a habitable planet. Students enter training, are quizzed on their knowledge, and adjust the features of potentially habitable planets to see what makes a planet habitable and why. The recording of student observations ties this activity to the basics of the scientific process.
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/projects/astrobiology/astroventure/avhome.html
Site offers educational materials related to Astronomy, Weather, and Energy and Environment.
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/index1.html
Site has information about how they were formed and detected. It is written in non-technical terms.
http://www.eclipse.net/~cmmiller/BH/blkmain.html
The Nine Planets is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system. Each page has text and images, some have sounds and movies, most provide references to additional related information.
http://www.seds.org/billa/tnp/
Applet that shows the location of the planets in the night sky.
http://www.lightandmatter.com/area2planet.shtml
Download a free PDF printout of the sky for each month.
http://skymaps.com/downloads.html
The Drake Equation gives a means for estimating how many communicating civilizations may be out there.
http://contact-themovie.warnerbros.com/cmp/drake.html
Zoom Astronomy is a comprehensive on-line site about space and astronomy. It is designed for people of all ages and levels of comprehension. It has an easy-to-use structure that allows readers to start at a basic level on each topic and then to progress to much more advanced information as desired.
http://www.zoomschool.com/subjects/astronomy/
This web page is designed to give everyone an idea of what our universe actually looks like. There are nine main maps on this web page, each one approximately ten times the scale of the previous one.
http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/
What happens to the temperature and pressure as an airplane goes higher? You can change the height of the plane and find out. Also do not miss the applets at the bottom of the page that have some fun activities.
http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/atmosi.html
Teachers and students may download Audacity software for FREE at this site. Audacity is a free program that allows students to create blogs so that teachers may incorporate them into their curriculum.
http://www.download.com/Audacity/3000-2170_4-10058117.html