Additional Space Science Education Resources

NASA Affiliated:

• Ask the Space Scientist - Questions about space sciences will be answered!
• The Challenger Center OnLine
• Educator Resource Center in Greenbelt, Maryland
• Goddard's High-Energy Astrophyiscs Learning Center
• Goddard's Eclipse Page
• Goddard's StarChild Education Website
• Hubble Space Telescope's 'Amazing Space'
• Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Public Pictures
• International Space Station - Ask scientists questions about the space station!
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory Learning Link
• J-Track Satellite Tracking - positions of NASA and other satellites in 3-dimensional plots
• Leonid Meteor Shower
• Multiwavelength Milky Way Poster
• NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Public Services and Information - Tours, speakers, exhibits, discoveries, achievements, and community outreach
• NASA Kids by LIFTOFF to Space Exploration - Activities designed by NASA personnel for young students
• NASA Glenn Learning Technologies Project - tutorials and lesson plans for math and science using basic aeronautics principles
• NASA Quest - Question various NASA professionals and NASA projects, such as "Women of NASA", "Live from Mars", and astronauts on U.S. shuttles
• NASA Spacelink - official electronic home to NASA's educational products, the NASA Television education schedule, and hundreds of subject-related links
• NASA Television Directory - Schedules for interviews, educational programs and live coverage of special NASA events
• NSSDC Image Catalog
• NSSDC Planetary Images CD-ROM - CD-ROM with 200 planetary images
• NSSDC Photo Gallery
• NSSDC's General Public Page
• Solar Data Analysis Center (SDAC) Home Page
• Space Science Education Resource Directory - an Internet on- ramp to top-quality educational resources produced by NASA's Space Science Education and public Outreach programs
• SSDOO's Astronomy Educational Resources
• Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum (SECEF)
• Telescopes in Education - Educators may reserve time on a 24-inch telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California for students to select and transmit images via the Internet
• Welcome to the Planets - New multimedia educational CD-ROM produced by NASA's Planetary Data System
• Welcome to the Planets - Images extracted from the "Welcome to the Planets" educational CD-ROM, Version 1.5

Government (Others):

• US Department of Education
• Government Printing Office
• National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) Solar-Terrestrial Data

News/Newsletter/Updates:

• NASA Newsroom

Professional Organizations and Standards:

• The American Astronomical Society Education Page
• American Geophysical Union (AGU) - Science for everyone, science and policy, careers in science, etc.
• Astronomical Society of the Pacific
• Education Standards - National and state standards for science and math
  
• National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)
• Planetary Society Learning Center

Schools/Museums/Planetariums:

• Exploratorium and Solar Eclipse - Live Solar Eclipse Images and Interviews
• Hands-On Universe - make observations from an automated telescope and investigate the universe with science, math and technology
• The Howard B. Owens Science Center - A resource center for Maryland's Prince Georges County Schools

Others:

• The Astronomy Cafe
• Encyclopedia Britannica Online
• Education Standards - National and State Standards for Science and Math
• Glossary of Solar Terrestrial Terms
  • By NOAA National Geophysical Data Center
• Education Sites from Dr. David Stern
  • From Stargazers to Starships
  • The Great Magnet, the Earth
  • The Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere
• Instructional Technology and Training
• Mount Wilson Observatory Education Page
• National Space Day
• Plasma Science and Technology - includes the applications of space plasmas and plasma astrophysics
• Space Science Institute - An institute for space science research, education, and outreach
• ThinkQuest - An annual internet contest for teenagers; maintains a library of online learning resources
• Yahoo Education List

• SSDOO Home Page
• GSFC Home Page
• NASA Home Page

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Contact Person: Nate James, nate.james@nasa.gov,
NSSDC, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 633
Greenbelt, MD 20771

Last Updated: 04-Jun-2004 [NLJ]