Planets & Astronomy

Android app – Point your mobile device at any point in the night sky and this app will tell you about the stars, constellations, planets, galaxies using GPS and compass data.  You can also use it to find the current…

General reference for the planets and our solar system, including images, interactive solar system model, up-to-date solar system news, facts, and data.

Astronomy Topics, based on the film Seeing in the Dark, provides in-depth information about Saturn, Mars, Pluto, the life cycle of stars, Orion Nebula, Andromeda Galaxy, gamma-ray bursts, extra-solar planets, and light pollution. Several of the topics include clips from…

NASA App is a free space exploration app for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. It provides a wealth of customizable information, images and video of space exploration and shuttle sighting opportunities. There are also free NASA apps for Android…

The interactives on Astronomy OLogy help kids learn the principle ideas about astronomy, explore the stars and planets, learn more about Mars and the sun.

From site:  Welcome to the International Space Station, Astronaut. In Station Spacewalk Game you’ll experience the thrill of conducting NASA repair work on the International Space Station. After negotiating your way through the airlock, you, the astronaut, will be tasked…

NeoK12 offers a set of YouTube videos explaining and illustrating how telescopes work, types of telescopes, how to use one, parts of telescopes, the history of the telescope and how to build a Dobsonian telescope.  All videos and lessons on this…

This site provides pictorial lessons on our solar system and the universe, with accompanying lesson plans for teachers or homeschooling parents.  The Level 1 material is for students in grades K-8.  The Level 2 material is written for students in grades…

From site:  The ISS Education Kit is a resource for teachers with ideas on how to use the International Space Station as a thematic frame for teaching a wide variety of topics that are part of European curricula. The target…

From site:  Through the ‘mISSion possible’ website, teachers have access to 18 lessons and more than 100 activities in the various disciplines of the curriculum. The lessons are organised around six major themes: being an astronaut, travelling to space, being…

From site:  Communicating the world of infrared astronomy to the public is the main topic of the “Cool Cosmos” portal but certainly not its only goal. In the past few years the “Cool Cosmos” team has created a wide variety…

AMNH offers short feature webcasts, visualizations and snapshots of planets, stars, space exploration, soloar system, space weather, gravity, galaxies, our moon, and phenomena such as super novas and black holes.

This site has step-by-step instructions with illustrations, for astronomy experiments kids and their parents can conduct at home.  There are 10 experiments.  Each provides a list of supplies and links to references that provide more background information on the experiment…

These 50 downloadable demonstrations provide students a way to view and manipulate astronomical data.  Learn how old you are and how much you weigh on another planet.  Deploy and steer a parabolic antenna.  View the magnetic tilt of a pulsar.  Watch…

From site:  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…