Space - Curriculum Links

• Kid's Space  Colouring Books, Digital Puzzles, Space Projects, Space Books
• For Educators
• Resources - Fact sheets
• Image Gallery - Graphics and Videos
• Links
• Space Missions and Astronaut biographies
• Space in my daily life

Games, projects, animations, and amazing facts.

• Projects
• Animations
• Cool Subjects
• Amazing Facts
• Images and activites for the classroom

Resources for students, teachers and researchers.

• For Educators - Resources for grades K-4, 5-8, 9-12
• Find Teaching Materials
• For Students 

• Build your space mission
• Teacher Links
• Videos and Features

In this Lab you investigate questions and answers that will help you elicit student ideas about the distance between Earth, the Sun, and the Moon and about the phases of the Moon.

• Five Question Survey
• In-Class Activities

 An excellent site that provides: galaxy, star, black hole, comet information and on-line activities.

• Myths vs. Realities about Space

Lesson plans and on-line activities that explain the seasons.

Displays real-time and customized results of satellites, star charts and much more information for your local time zone. You can use the features of this site as an anonymous user or you can register for free to utilize customized preferences. 

• Select your location to access database

Pictures, the technology and people behind the pictures are linked. Fun and games.

Watch the Flash video to see the building of an international space station. Click on the menu at the right to read about each section.

Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 

• Index of Pictures of the Day

Good easy to access information with printable activities, quizzes and puzzles.

Topics include: Our Planet, Our Solar System, The Universe, Myths, Space Missions, Biographies. There are beginner, intermediate, advanced levels of reading for the site. Take time to investigate the teacher resources which include hands-on and on-line activities for primary, junior, and intermediate grades.

Information of each of the planets, asteroids, comets, meteorites, history and people. 

• Weighing In
  How much would you weigh on another planet? - calculation on-line.
• Age is relative
  How old would  you be on another planet? - calculation on-line.
• Planetary Icosahedrons
  Print these nets in color then fold and glue them to create parts of the solar system.

The Children's Museum of Indianaplolis- Interctive online activities

• Living in Space
• Field Guide to the Universe
• Expedition to the North Magnetic Pole

Students can make a scale model of the solar system, plugging in the diameter of their sun and automatically receiving the measurements of both space and other planetary bodies. Be warned that choosing a 10mm diameter for the sun would take up 164 feet in order to accommodate your entire solar system.

Video clips of Marc Garneau.

• For Teachers lessons, including a webquest

Information about the solar system in two levels of difficulty.

• Activities to explore  On-line and off-line activities indexed. Includes on-line treasure hunts.

You can scroll East-West and  North-South by clicking on the an icon in the lower right hand corner.  Note that Canada's population is almost exclusively along the U.S. border.

Constellations and stars are listed with pictures, sky locations, origin and description.

Descriptions of constellations and the stars that form them. Graphics and location of constellations. Charts listing the brightest and closest stars.
Level: Intermediate, Senior

Lesson plans to track the sun's shadows throughout the year.

Hands-on science experiments for the entire family. On-line links are included.