Space+Exploration

**General**
Space Exploration http://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/adc/education/space_ex/index.html

NASA http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/exploration/main/index.html

Solar System Resources http://region6.mainelearns.org/resourcesformaineteachers/index.html?242

ThemPark: Space Exploration (Great Directory of Resources - Jim) http://www.uen.org/themepark/exploration/space.shtml

Amazing Space http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/

Windows on the Universe http://www.windows.ucar.edu/

**Essential Question**
Developing Essential Questions http://dl1.yukoncollege.yk.ca/hfeinquirypage/stories/storyReader$4

Google Sky http://www.google.com/sky/

Explore the Sky with GoogleEarth http://earth.google.com/sky/skyedu.html

Celestia ... The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. http://www.shatters.net/celestia/

Explore Mars Now http://www.exploremarsnow.org/

The Nine Planets Solar System Tour http://www.nineplanets.org/

A Sense of Scale http://learninginmaineresources.wikispaces.com/Scale

Traveling into Tomorrow http://home.sullivan.k12.il.us/teachers/williams/space_exploration.htm

Space Colony Webquest http://www.coollessons.org/spacecolony.htm#INTRODUCTION

Space Station Phyve http://www.geocities.com/r_deruvo/

Space Survival Challenge http://lakelandschools.org/EDTECH/leslie/space.htm

For a list of books on space exploration, go to [|Maine MARVEL]. . . and then to [|NovelList] and NoveList K-8. Excellent source of books on themes. . . just do a quick search.

[|Issac Asimov] [|Ray Bradbury] [|Arthur C. Clark] [|2001 - A Space Odyssey] - Book and Film (I have a copy of the dvd to lend out - Jim) [|Technological Singularity] [|KurzweilAI.net] - inforrmation on artificial intelligence and the predicted Singularity. . . when everything changes.

Constructing
Designing a Space Station http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?DocID=141

Build a Solar System http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/solar_system/index.html

**Math**
Sense of Scale http://learninginmaineresources.wikispaces.com/Scale

Math Awareness Theme: Space Exploration http://www.mathaware.org/mam/05/space.exploration.html

Trigonometry & Space Exploration http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/60698.html

Real-world Math and Science http://www.massachusetts.edu/stem/realworldspaceexploration.html

**Survival**
Space Survival http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/S/space_survival.html

Wikipedia: Space & Survival http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_and_survival

Space and Human Survival http://www.sylviaengdahl.com/space/survival.htm

**Lesson Plans**
TeAchnology - Space & Astronomy Lesson Plans http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/science/astronomy/

Lesson Plan for Exploration of Mars http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/programs/lifeonmars/