This resource guides younger students in studying the night sky and looking for constellations and individual stars. Topics include distinguishing stars from other bright objects in the sky, how to keep a sky journal detailing observations, do's and don't's for going out at night to make observations, and some suggestions on what to look for. Full description.

In this lesson, students learn how meteorologists measure the weather by examining some online, real-time data resources and collaborating to create an in-class weather station that tracks local weather patterns for one week. Students compare this information to weather patterns in two other locations. After completing this lesson, students should be able to explain ways that meteorologists measure ... Full description.

This is an activity to help students visualize the relationship of motion, time and space as it relates to objects orbiting the earth. They will be able to track the path of an orbiting object on a globe, plot the path of an orbiting object on a flat world map, and explain that an object orbiting earth on a plane will produce a flight path which appears as wavy lines on the earths surface. Full description.

This lesson plan is part of the Center for Educational Resources (CERES), a series of web-based astronomy lessons created by a team of master teachers, university faculty, and NASA researchers. In this lesson, students study the effects of gravity on the planets of the Solar System. They view movies from the Apollo missions, calculate their own weight on other planets, and propose what they might ... Full description.

This lesson allows students to compare and contrast three NASA satellites: The Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE), The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE), and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The lesson includes access to data and images from these three NASA astronomy satellites, contrasting the way the sky appears in three very different electromagnetic wavelengths or colors of light. Other satellite ... Full description.

This interactive feature provides younger students with basic information about Mars. Topics include the length of the Martian day, the size of the planet relative to Earth, and its gravity and atmosphere. There are also features on the search for life on Mars and what forms it might take, as well as a downloadable activity in which students conduct an 'interview' with the planet and provide the answers. ... Full description.

Galileo pioneered astronomy as the first person to study the celestial objects through a telescope. His observations, including the discovery of moons around Jupiter, helped revolutionize the way people thought about the universe. This video segment describes some of Galileo's first discoveries with the telescope. The segment is three minutes four seconds in length. A background essay and discussion ... Full description.

Night and day are determined by the Sun's presence or absence in the sky. As Earth rotates, the portion of the planet that is illuminated by the Sun experiences day while the portion that faces away from the Sun experiences night. As observed from most locations on Earth, the Sun appears to rise in the east and set in the west every day. This video segment features time-lapse photography of a sunrise ... Full description.

This question-and-answer feature introduces younger students to some basic fact about our sun. Taking the form of a ficticious interview, it briefly describes the sun's age, size, what happens when stars die, and what sunspots are. It also points out that stars are round, not pointed, as in pictures. Full description.

This is an interactive feature in which in which younger students explore space. After an introduction by astronomer Neil de Grasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium, they will follow a series of links that introduce various topics in astronomy: gravity; the planet Mars; our sun; our galaxy (the Milky Way); and the origin of the universe (the Big Bang). The feature concludes with a game in ... Full description.