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"National Geography Awareness Week occurs every year in mid-November. The National Air and Space Museum celebrates with geography related activities at the Museum and the online "Geography From Space" contest." This page links to this year's quiz, and to the archives of quizzes from 2002-2008. To really enter the contest you must be "legal residents of the U.S. over the age of 13." But anyone can click through the quiz, and enter answers

Science Lab-Experiments & projects to do at home or in the classroom The SEED Science Center is a public place where Schlumberger scientists and engineers share their knowledge and experience with learners and teachers from around the world. The web site is organized into six areas: In Science Watch you will find articles on various topics in science and engineering. They are grouped into categories: * Earth Watch is about geology, geophysics, and other earth sciences. * People In Motion has tales of traveling to remote and interesting places around the world. * Sports & Science highlights well-known and some not so well-known sports, often with insights into the underlying science of the games. * Inventing Our World is about the things we design and build. * Air & Space Watch explores the sky and in the rest of the Universe. Science Lab has hands-on and virtual experiments that you can do at home or in school, and collaborative projects that you may participate in. Many of these activities are related to concepts and topics presented in Science Watch articles. The Science Lab is divided into several areas: * Earth Science * Air & Space * Electricity & Magnetism * Properties of Liquids * Math Puzzle of the Month * Engineering Challenge

a prototype for drawing objects and turning them in space

Design and turn an object in space

drag tracks into the play space, push start to run the train . "I'm sure TrainTracker will be a big hit in the early primary grades and for older special needs children. It's also one of those great websites to bookmark at home and have your young children learn how to use a mouse while building their own little adventure world. Teachers could also utilize this site as a fun "memory helper" by drawing out a train track layout on the Smart Board and then see how well the students can recreate the layout using TrainTracker." notes from James Hollis

space game for multiplication practice

Volcano World is sponsored by the NASA Oregon Space Grant Consortium and housed in the Department of Geosciences at Oregon State University.

Interactive science & engineering (for 9-11 year olds) Flash activities about Light, sound, forces and motion, earth & beyond, electircity

Browse through the list of already created cards, or make your own for a specific project. Would be a great way for a group to study or the class to do an intro or review

Faster, free and more elegant FlashcardDB makes it easy to create, study and share flashcards online

View videos of the night sky placed on the Star Viewr map.

panorama photos from Apollo 11

"The site allows the teacher or student to control how they are viewing the solar system. Users can touch and drag to move things around and they have a complete set of controls to change scale, speed of orbits (passing of time), or planetary object to follow. For example, if you follow the Sun, the Sun is stationary and it shows the other planets orbiting the Sun. If you follow the Earth, then it shows the other planetary objects with a stationary Earth." (from Teachers Love SMartboards)