Young scholars explore a web-based illustrated text and interactive graphics to determine the relationship between the operation of telescopes and light. optics. They work in small groups to become an expert on one of the ten eras of...

Students explore the characteristics of stars. In this space science activity, students use the Microsoft WorldWide Telescope program to identify the properties of stars and identify the stars in the galaxy.

Students investigate the interdependence of mass and gravitational acceleration using computer simulation. In this physics lesson, students derive the formula for acceleration due to gravity. They calculate air resistance on falling...

Learners study the heliocentric theory of Copernicus, the ideas behind it and the explanations which it displaced. A discussion of retrograde motion of planets helps students explain the logic underlying the ideas of both Ptolemy and...

Third graders develop questions they have about the solar system. After being read a book, they view and discuss different constellations in the sky. In groups, they are given a piece of butcher paper and glow in the dark crayons in...

Students assess and explore gravity in the Universe via several short video lessons. They analyze why this science matters and the history of Sir Isaac Newton's law of gravity. A variety of questions are asked within this lesson for each...

In this science and mass media in America worksheet, high schoolers complete 12 fill in the blank questions and 6 multiple choice questions regarding the culture of United States

Ninth graders study the uses of spectroscopy and the operation of the Hubble space telescope.  In this astronomy lesson students complete a lab activity that includes graphing star color and temperature.

Young scholars define the attributes of God and find natural examples of these attributes in creation.  In this attributes of God lesson, students discuss how God's attributes are shown in nature.  Young scholars work in groups...

Students research the development of remote sensing, various instruments used throughout time and create a time line depicting the history of remote sensing.

Students, using 15 years of sunspot data, plot data on a classroom graph. They discuss why the pattern from their individual sheets did not and could not match the class graph.

Students are given a world leader to research a week before participating in a class game. Using the internet, they discover their major contribution to history and the time period and location in which they lived. They present their...

In this microscopes instructional activity, students access a website to complete questions about the early compound microscopes and the scientist involved in the development. This instructional activity has 1 graphic organizer, 7 fill...

Students build their knowledge and understanding of vocabulary related to space.  In this space lesson plan, students discuss four categories of words and phrases related to space. 

In this lesson plan, middle schoolers will consider "Galileo: Revealing the Universe." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.

Online view of these important scientific documents, complete with meticulous notation.

Links to pages with images and information on Galileo Galilei and the mathematics of perspective used in art of the Renaissance.

Animated simulation re-enacts Galileo's experiment of dropping objects off the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

This site from the Rice University contains information about his life, his father, eduction, religion, nationality, scientific discipline, means of support, patronage, technical involvement, scientific societies, and a bibloigraphy on...

This section of the exhibition gives the history of the discovery and study of space starting with the Greeks and Romans through to the early 1900's.

This site from SkyServer provides information where students are introduced to Galileo and are transported back in time to learn what "Old Time Astronomy," was all about.

Pictures and descriptions of the robot spacecraft that have explored the planets and outer space since the 1960s.

The Galileo Project of Rice University describes Florence and Tuscany during the Renaissance period. Includes a tour of Renaissance Florence, as well as descriptions of daily life.

This site from The Galileo Project of the Rice University provides an in depth history of the telescope and it's invention and growth over time. Too detailed for an Elementary student, but a great resource for an Elementary teacher.