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NASA Quest
Find interactive explorations, talk with NASA scientists, discover great lesson plans, participate in live webcasts, view video and listen to audio, and learn from and interact with other teachers at this site from NASA.
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Space Day
The Space Day educational initiative, founded by Lockheed Martin, takes place on the first Thursday of each May. Its goal is to promote math, science, technology and engineering education. You can learn more about the initiative and how your class or school can participate at this site. You'll also find projects and activities for students at the site along with resources for the teacher.
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Teachers Reading Level: Varies Teacher Section: N/A Searchable: No

Multimedia Space Educators' Handbook
Browsed any good books lately? This online handbook for teachers features hundreds of pages of teaching ideas, tools, activities, background information, images and more.
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The K-8 Aeronautics Internet Textbook
Get your space science curriculum off the ground with some of the resources housed at this site. You'll find lessons, activities, articles, and loads more!
Intended Audience: Teachers/Students Reading Level: Varies Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No

Science Education Gateway
This site from the Center for Science Education at the Space Sciences Laboratory at UC Berkeley strives to present the latest astronomy and space science research. You'll find lesson plans and reviewed Websites for a variety of Space and Earth science topics.
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CERES Project
Find lesson ideas, activities, and other resources from this library of on-line and interactive K-12 astronomy materials from t Montana State University.
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Athena: Earth and Space Science for K-12
You'll find lesson supports, activities, and links to K-12 Earth and Space science resources at this site. Please note that this is an older Website and was last updated in 2001. That being said, it is still nicely organized and provides a good outline of Earth and Space science.
Intended Audience: Teachers/Students Reading Level: Middle Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No

Eyes on the Sky, Feet on the Ground: Hands on Astronomy Activities for Kids
This online activity book from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics features a collection of astronomy activities for grades 1-6.
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