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This extensive Web site serves as an introduction to the Hubble telescope and its mission of exploring space and looking at the origins of the universe. The site includes a short history of humankind's...
HTML Document: 16 kb
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Created in 2000 to mark a time of intense solar activity, this Web site offers photos, videos, and articles that illuminate sunspots, solar flares, and solar max (maximum), which means the time of greatest...
HTML Document: 42 kb
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A far-ranging Web site that explores the people, places, tools, and ideas behind the search for the origins of matter, the universe, and life itself. The site covers the European Center for Nuclear Research...
HTML Document: 10 kb
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9-12
Postsecondary
This Web site focuses on the search for life elsewhere in the universe, looking at the astronomers, evolutionary biologists, astrobiologists, geologists, and physicists involved in various aspects of...
HTML Document: 13 kb
6-8
9-12
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This extensive Web site celebrates Spirit and Opportunity, the two Mars Exploration Rovers, on their first Martian birthday, marking one Martian year after they landed on the red planet. The site explores...
HTML Document: 13 kb
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Postsecondary
This activity provides instructions for viewing the transit of Venus safely by building a binocular viewer.
HTML Document: 19 kb
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This activity provides instructions for making a scale model of the Solar System and learning the REAL definition of "space."
HTML Document: 21 kb
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This Web site explores Chaco Canyon, NM, an ancient astronomical observatory. The architecture of the ancient Chacoans aligns with the solstices and other events of the sun. Maps, images, history, animations,...
HTML Document: 12 kb
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9-12
Postsecondary
This interactive activity allows earthlings to calculate their weights on other planets. You type in your weight, in whatever unit you wish, and your weight in that unit is calculated for all the planets--and...
HTML Document: 12 kb
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Postsecondary
In this activity, students use colored bubble solution to create mounds of bubbles and then "print" them on a sheet of paper.
PDF File: 3 Mb
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