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| | http://filer.case.edu/~sjr16/advanced/mercury.html- Site proves excellent
overview and pictures of the planets. Great pie graphs of the atmosphere of
planets. Includes information on the dwarf planets. Click on your planet name.
Planet atmosphere and more
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| | Chart containing many different sources of planet information.
Excellent source for all kinds of planet data and facts.
http://www.astronomynotes.com/solarsys/plantlnk.htm
Planet Resource
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| | Another good planet site. Click on introduction...select planet name and open
the information and views about your planet.
Views of PLanets
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| | Cloud Spotter Wheel-PDF file of the two piesces needed to make your cloud
spotter wheel.
Cloud Spotter
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| | Global warming: What is it? Get informed! Click on Take action and click on
drop down options.
Clean Air Cool Planet
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| | Lockeed Martins proposed replacement for the Shuttle program
Shuttle replacement prototype
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| | Accretion animated video
Accretion video - animated
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| | weather information for weather (data) recording
http://weatherforyou.com/cgi-bin/hw3/hw3.cgi?nc=forecast%2Cpands%2Ccountry&forecast=zandh&pands=holden%2C+ma
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| | Weather Maps
Daily Weather Maps
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| | CLOUD IDENTIFICATION: TYPES, PIX, and DESCRIPTIONS
http://www.theairlinepilots.com/met/clouds.htm#Stratus
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| | This site has the names, descriptions and abbreviations of clouds
http://www.answers.com/topic/cloud-types
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| | Hurricanes
http://www.marshbunny.com/mbunny/sidetrip/hurricane/storms.html#2
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| | Information Related to Global Warming- Excerpts from an Inconvenient Truth
http://an-inconvenient-truth.com/report-archives.html.
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| | Weather Maps showing fronts, H's and L's and isobars.
Weather Maps
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| | NOAA web site of Weather symbols
http://www.srh.weather.gov/srh/jetstream/synoptic/ww_symbols.htm
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| | WikiHow - How to do better in school. This site also has many other
interesting HOW TO categories other than this topic. Visit this site for
many HOW To FUN activities. Check it out!
WikiHow
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| | Space web page: information about planets, galaxies, exploration.
Cosmos4kids
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| | Build a Mars probe.
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/classroom/students.html
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| | more ideas on Global warming
abcnews_GlobalWarming
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| | link to information about Kyoto Protocol or accord.
KyotoProtocol
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| | Other things that can be done to stall the effects of global warming.
howstuffworks_globalwarming
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| | 4 min global warming video
abcnews_globalwarming video
| |
| | Universe Forum website- provides answers to how and when the universe bagan
(Big Bang),Black holes, black energy, The sun, Galaxies etc.
Universe Forum
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| | Visit this web site to make a spectroscope.
SPECTROPSCOPE MAKING
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| | aerospace Shuttle Mission and goals. Short videos and neet information about
the History of the Shuttle program.
aerospace Shuttle Mission
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| | this web site shows a Timeline of all the Shuttles. Some pictures names,
dates etc.
Shuttle Timeline
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| | Use this site to find and identify stars and constellations. Read the
stories behind the mythology of the constellation.
Constellations
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| | Interactive web site of the Columbia tragedy-STS-107 Feb.1, 2003.
Once this web site opens you have to scroll down to the interactive icon.
Anatomy of a Columbia Disaster
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| | check out this web site to find information about the Night Sky. For ex.,
what objects (constellations, planets etc) might be visible in the night sky
for a particular night.
NightSky
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| | Listen to the Sept.13, 2000 article From NASA about the Sun's Activity.
CME's, Radiation etc. Click on the speaker Icon to listen to the story.
Sun Story
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| | Observe how far into space you go to get to the end of our Galaxy, (What
Power of 10) then, zoom in to see how far you can go to see what's inside
a leaf. (what power of 10). Check out the relationship between the diameter
of the earth and the diameter of a plant cell.
Powers of 10
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| | Visit this web site for information about the planets.
PLANETS
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| | Great details and visuals about the planets.
Virtual Solar System
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| | Welcome to Astronomy for Kids!
We're glad you're here, and we hope you enjoy your visit to the site.
The Universe is a place that is vast beyond imagining, and what we will try
to do is help you understand a little more about it. There are several
sections to the site, but none of them takes a terribly long time to read,
and all of them should be easily understood by kids of all ages.
Astronomy for Kids I
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| | Lots of information about Planets and Astronomy.
Astronomy for Kids II
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| | NASA'S Spitzer telescope takes pictures and gathers information about far
away planets.
spitzer telescope
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| | Planet information. This is a great source to help with your Planets.
Includes information about the planets, probes sent to the planet and
pictures of planet and probe.
NASA Worldbook
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| | Revisit Mars video shown in class on Monday 3/5/07. 14 min.
See planetary topographic features: Like the largest shield volcano in the
solar system- Olympus Mons, Ice Caps, Dunes, a canyon (The Valles Marineris
that is as long as the US is wide. Find out which probes visited Mars and
their mission.
A Mars Never Dreamed of
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| | Planets of our solar system provides data and detailed information about the
planets. Specifically good for % of gases in atmosphers.
http://filer.case.edu/~sjr16/advanced/planets_main.html
Planets of our solar system
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| | http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/flash/Titan/index.html
Cassini probes planned flyby of Saturn's largest Moon Titan-March 9-10, 2007.
See video and related facts
Cassini flyby Titan
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| | Cassini-Huygens home page
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm
Cassini-Huygens home page
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| | http://pds-rings.seti.org/saturn/
Images, animations about the ringed planets. (Saturn)
Ringed Planets
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| | http://www.astro.washington.edu/larson/Astro150b/Lectures/JupSatUraNep/jupsat
u
ranept.html
Comparitive Astronomy- site compares the information about the outer planets
Comparitive Planet Astronomy
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| | http://www.astro.washington.edu/larson/Astro150b/Lectures/JupSatUraNep/jupsat
u
ranept.html#colors
Basic Characteristics of outer planets, magnetosphere, atmosphere % etc.
Astro Washington
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| | http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/binaries/visual/kepleroldframe.html
Visit this web site to actually see the orbital path (ellipse) the planets
take to go around the sun. Plug in the eccentricity numbers you learned in
class to see its elliptical path.
Eccentricity_Oval orbits
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| | http://ciclops.org/index.php
Follow the Cassini Orbiter with pictures and movies of Saturn and its Moons.
CICLOPS
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| | http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/planetlila/
Eris (UB313, formerly Xena, 10th planet) furthest Dwarf planet from the sun.
Visit this web site for information, pictures of ERIS.
Eris_New Planette
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| | http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/~sustain/bio65/lec02/b65lec02.htm#top
Geologic Time - Earths' beginning-Present Day (4.6 Billion Years of Earth's
History.
Geologic Time
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| | http://www.fandom.ca/
click on this link for the IAU-International Astronomical Union definition
of a planet.
IAU planet definition
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| | http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/deep-impact/index-flash.html
Click this link to see and explore information about Comet Tempel 1 and the
deep impact probe that smashed in it on July 4, 2005.
deep impact probe
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| | http://www.ecotarium.org/activities/planetarium/
Alden Digital Planetarium_Ecotarium Worcester
Alden Digital Planetarium_Ecotarium Worcester
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| | http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/Academy/UNIVERSE/MOON.HTML
Visit this web site to view the phases of the moon.
moon phase calculator
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| | http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/vphase.html
Use this website to see phases of the moon. Select dates and see phase.
moon phase calc II
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| | http://web.ukonline.co.uk/a.buckley/dino.htm -- Use this link to discover
information about Dinosaur Extinction
K-T meteorite & Dinosaur Extinction
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| | http://www.puzzlersparadise.com/page1014.html
Answers to trivia questions 1-30. Puzzlers Paradise.
Answers Trivia
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| | Earthquake.USGS.gov/learning/kids/facts.php
Use this site to find earthquake facts.
Earthquake Facts
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| | view a short 1:19 video of the bootom of the ocean
Deep
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| | http://www.iavcei.org/
visit this site for IAVCEI information
IAVCEI
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| | http://earthquake.usgs.gov/
visit this site for USGS information
International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's
Interior (IAVCEI)
USGS
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| | http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/topics.php?topicID=63&topic=Seismic%
20waves
Seismic Waves P,S and Surface
Seismic Waves
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| | http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/may97/862689152.Es.r.html
Seismic Wave information
Seismic waves II
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| | http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/listen/allsounds.php
Listen to earthquakes
Sounds of Earthquakes
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| | http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/framework.html#P
Alphabetical listing of Volcanoes
USGS Volcanoes
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| | http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/framework.html
Volcano Vocabulary website
Volcano Vocab
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| | http://wardsci.com/article.asp?ai=128
Volcanoes are amazing and destructive.
Wardsci.com
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| | http://www.volcano.si.edu/
Smithsonian website: more encompassing list of volcanoes
smithsonian Volcano
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| | http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/navigation/visualization.cf
m
Animation/visualizations for Plate Tectonics and other science related
topics.
Visualizations
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| | National Geographic for Kids
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/
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| | NASA for middle-school students
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/index.html
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| | Fun activities - by girls....for girls.
http://www.missoandfriends.com/
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| | http://www.theweathernetwork.com/conversions/
This site will let you enter a number for one unit and it will convert it to
other units. For ex., type in 5 mph and it will covert it to knots or km/hr.
conversion calculator
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| | http://www.csgnetwork.com/pressinmbcvt.html
Use this URL site to cnovert inches into millibars or mbs to in.
inches-millibars converter
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| | http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0102/av/ss_mars.swf
Link to National Geographics video on Mars
A Mars never dreamed of
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| | Life cycle of a Star: http://video.google.com/videoplay?
docid=2160210932429964203&q=life+cycle+of+a+star&total=208&start=0&num=10&so=0
&type=search&plindex=0
Star life cycle
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