What is A Planet? - NASA Science - 1 views
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Christopher Palma on 11 Jul 13Short (7 min) video from NASA talking about the ~7 year old debate over the nature of a planet and the creation of the dwarf planet category
Sun's Motion simulator - 3 views
A link to a Univ. Nebraska - Lincoln online simulator for studying Sun's angle and motion through time. Ability to change observers position on Earth included. http://astro.unl.edu/naap/motion3/a...
Link to Word Doc with Storyline, Activity descriptions - 0 views
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Hi Everyone. Although it's later than I intended, at this link you can get a Word doc with copies of everything we did at the workshop. Hope it's useful!
Eyes on the Solar System - 1 views
Realtime links for a current mission or 3D tour of the solar system. http://eyes.nasa.gov/index.html As I post this the Mars Science Lab is 33 hours away from entry
A Centennial of Bombardment (Discovered) - 1 views
We come upon the 100 year anniversary of human discovery of Cosmic Rays and according to this article still ponder their origin http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2012/07/25/157286520/cosmic-rays-100-ye...
Scale of the Universe - 2 views
Black Holes - Gravity Gone Wild - 2 views
NASA's nice Hubble site on Black hole overview http://hubblesite.org/explore_astronomy/black_holes/ * With some external links for further reading, like on quantum mechanics
Short video of Inertia & Gravity = Orbits - 4 views
For those of you who have access to Discovery Education / United Streaming, there is a short, 2 minute snippet called "Gravity & Inertia" that is part of "Spin Around the Solar System: How the Sol...
PhET: Free online physics, chemistry, biology, earth science and math simulations - 1 views
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We demonstrated the Gas Properties & My Solar System simulations during the 2012 workshop
Discourse Tools - 0 views
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Core Practices for Ambitious Science Teaching Great teaching can be learned. This web site provides tools and resources that support ambitious science instruction at the middle school and high school levels. This site includes info on the evidence bucket
The Nine Planets Solar System Tour - 0 views
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Very comprehensive database with detailed, written descriptions of the planets (and moons) that can also be used for a comparative planetology data gathering activity of some sort.
Data Table for Planets & Dwarf Planets -Size, Orbit, Temp, Moons - 2 views
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If you want to work on comparative planetology, here is one table for retrieving data (can be supplemented by what is found in Starry Night)
A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas - 0 views
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Just released today -- July 19, 2011
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This is the new K-12 Science Framework which is the basis for the Next Generation Science Standards ( Common Core). This framework is based on a few core scince ideas. The PDF is free!
Course Home Page | Astronomy 801 - Planets, Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe - 1 views
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This is the on-line course that all materials are open even to unregistered students. If you would like more info about the on-line MEd in Earth Science, let me know
Glenn Goldsborough's Recommended Sites - 2 views
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This is "bookmarking" website I send my students to. These are the most frequently used sites I use with my students in both physics and astronomy.
Green Laser Pointer, Blue, Red, Purple Lasers | Wicked Lasers - 1 views
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Wicked Lasers is the world's #1 best-selling brand of high powered lasers and laser pointers. Our unique lasers provide the highest standard of diode technology and have even been recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records for producing the world's most powerful hand held green laser pointer.
At Home Astronomy - 0 views
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Has the calculations already done for two different scales of the solar system, including diameters, in nice and neat tables.
A Private Universe Project - 1 views
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(This includes the 5 question survey, which includes the shape of the Earth's orbit question we covered in the workshop)
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You can also order a DVD copy of the video we watched in class, or watch it for free on-line.