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3D printerWant to find out more about the 3D printer- watch this movie Also dont forget about the Google Sketch up competition! Win a 3D printer for your school!!!

This is a neat website that lets students track missions as they are happening with the satellites that are collecting information about the Earth from space.  Students can learn about the earth by choosing a mission to follow, zoom in and out of the globe, view satellite paths, view city and location labels on the map, replace the sun with an "artificial light" and see the view from Earth's surface.  As students click on the satellite, they will be able to view and discover more information about the mission.  Students can choose to view the 3D Earth in real-time or speed up/slow down the Earth with a time control.

This site enables you to create 3D pop up books, I havent had a go yet, but it looks interesting!!

 Solar System Scope (SSS) is a 3D real-time look at celestial positions with planets and constellations in the night sky.  Students can adjust planet and moon settings, star and constellation settings, earth observatory settings and time settings.  View the solar system from a heliocentric, geocentric or panoramic view.

Easy Movie/cartoon making - Make 3d movies for free. Includes a range of languages, easy to use interface and a selection of backgrounds. Great for languages, story telling, role playing and different presentation

Follow download link for a pretty decent piece of timeline software.

Healthline BodyMaps is an handy tool which provides a set of searchable body maps. It includes colored, interactive maps of everything from the pancreas to the digestive system to the body as a whole.

"Welcome to Celestia ... The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy. "

http://www.stellarium.org/ check this out - we have both Stellarium and Celestia on the student image - "Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go." both freeware

Awesome Nathan I didnt realise they worked so well together. Welcome to the group and thanks for your input.

Awesome website for checking out the planets in the solar system. Very interactive and has some interesting information for each planet. http://www.solarsystemscope.com/