Lesson Plan
Space Telescope Science Institute

Amazing Space: Star Light, Star Bright

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This online exploration provides an opportunity to identify the different properties of waves and the relationship that exists between energy, wavelength, and frequency. Correlate images from the Hubble Telescope to the wavelength,...
Handout
Smithsonian Institution

National Air and Space Museum: Exploring the Planets: Venus

For Students 9th - 10th
Get the facts on Venus. Resource offers a variety of satellite images and facts about the structure and features of Venus.
Handout
Smithsonian Institution

National Air and Space Museum: Exploring the Planets: Mercury

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a useful resource for facts and images pertaining to the planet Mercury.
Website
Smithsonian Institution

National Air and Space Museum: Women in Aviation and Space History

For Students 9th - 10th
Find information on the many women who became well known for their part in aviation history. Click on one of the drop down menus on the left to find a name, then click on the name to see a short description of the woman and her...
Website
University of Wisconsin

The Why Files: High Living

For Students 9th - 10th
The Why Files have provided an article that explores the health effects of space travel. The site focuses on life on a space station.
Interactive
Science Museum, London

Science Museum: Rugged Rovers

For Students 9th - 10th
Design and test your own all-terrain space rover with this app.
Handout
Smithsonian Institution

National Air and Space Museum: Exploring the Planets: Earth's Lithosphere

For Students 9th - 10th
The plate tectonics and other features of the Earth's lithosphere are explained and illustrated. Has links to definitions of the magnetosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Explore Our Solar System

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares facts about planets in the solar system. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
Online Course
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Earth and Space Science: Every Rock Tells a Story

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the different types of rocks on our Earth as you watch a one-hour video, accompanied by learning goals, details on sedimentary rocks, fossils, and supercontinents, and more.
Interactive
Other

University of Southern California: Spacewalk

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive game is available for free download. Players are meant to be together in the same vicinity. In the game, players explore the International Space Station and leave it to take a walk in space.
Unit Plan
NASA

Nasa: 21rd Century Explorer: Why Return to the Moon Before Going to Mars?

For Students 9th - 10th
This short article elaborates on why it's important to have more space missions to the moon before sending a manned space mission to Mars. Follow links to learn more about NASA's other space missions.
Graphic
NASA

Nasa: Welcome to From Earth to the Solar System (Fettss)

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of high-resolution images of space. Images "showcase the discoveries and excitement of planetary exploration, with a focus on the origin and evolution of the Solar System and the search for life".
Article
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Einstein: How Smart Was He?

For Students 9th - 10th
This essay from the NOVA Web site explores the impact Einstein made on physics and most everything we know about the cosmos.
Unit Plan
McGraw Hill

Glencoe Technology Education: Mission to Mars Web Quest

For Students 9th - 10th
This WebQuest lets you explore Mars through the missions sent there over the years. You can evaluate what you think about the benefits of space exploration.
Website
PBS

Nova: To the Moon

For Students 9th - 10th
This companion website of a NOVA program that aired in 1999 features extensive information that focuses on moon research and includes a history of the Apollo missions as well as the science of the moon's origins.
Website
NASA

Nasa: 1969 1999: Apollo 30th Anniversary

For Students 9th - 10th
A special anniversary site for the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. Complete with comments from the astronauts, galleries with many images related to the mission, and much more.
Handout
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: John Daniel Kraus

For Students 9th - 10th
For a man whose career involved the entire known universe, John Kraus had a remarkably insular upbringing. He was born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and earned his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in physics, all at the...
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Aerospace Engineering

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection of Aerospace Engineering learning modules will allow students to explore video and interactive media resources that support the middle and high school Engineering Design core ideas.
Unit Plan
Can Teach

Can Teach: Songs and Poems

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site features an extensive list of poems and songs for every event during the school year. Explore the seasons, colors, holidays, and more.
Website
Other

Earthworks: Jobs

For Students 9th - 10th
Are you interested in an environmental career? Explore current environmental job opportunties in the Earthworks database.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Supersonic Dream: Anatomy of Concorde

For Students 9th - 10th
Examine the features of Concorde that were designed and engineered for high-altitude, supersonic flight by exploring this detailed, interactive cross section.
Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Ology: Astronomy: Are You Cut Out for Mars?

For Students 3rd - 5th
Do you have what it takes to go on a space mission to the Red Planet? Think you can handle it? Take this quiz to find out!
Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: A Closer Look at Mars

For Students 3rd - 8th
If you look up at the sky on a clear night, you may see a red dot among the stars. This dot is Mars, named in ancient times after the Roman god of war. Although no one has ever visited this red planet, we know a lot about it. This site...
Article
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Double Eye Vortex at Venus' South Pole

For Students 9th - 10th
From ABC News in Science, this article explores findings related to the "double-eye vortex" discovered hovering above Venus' south pole.