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Kinesthetic Astronomy - 4 views
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Kinesthetic Astronomy resources
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.
AccuWeather blog post on the Super Moon of 2011 - 0 views
The "Bad Astronomy" blog on the Super Moon of March 2011 - 1 views
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
Astronomy Picture of the Day - 1 views
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.
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.
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!
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...
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...
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
Scale of the Universe - 2 views
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
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...
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
What is A Planet? - NASA Science - 1 views
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Short (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
NASA's Star Child - 1 views
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This came up today as a resource for younger students to use to learn about the properties of the Solar System