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Starry Skies
http://starryskies.com/index.html
From DLESE Community Collection (DCC)
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Activities on this site include making your own toilet paper Solar System, invisible ink, fog, fossils, and barometer; demonstrating the law of conservation of energy and momentum by bouncing balls; an experiment to discover how plants know which way to grow; an experiment on dew formation; a demonstration of why trash is dangerous in the sea; and a procedure for tracking the sun. Reference sections involve each of the planets, the moon, and the sun, the constellations of spring, summer/autumn, and autumn/winter, asteroids, comets, the Ulysses project, the Cassini mission to Saturn, and northern and southern circumpolar stars. There is also an archive of past articles.
Intended for grade levels:
  • Intermediate (3-5)
  • Middle (6-8)
  • High (9-12)
Type of resource:
  • For the classroom:
    • Classroom activity
    • Lab activity
  • Visual:
    • Illustration - scientific
  • Text:
    • Ref. material
Subject:
  • Atmospheric science
  • Biology
  • Environmental science
  • Geological Sciences:
    • Paleontology
  • Physics
  • Space science
Technical requirements:
No specific technical requirements, just a browser required
Cost / Copyright:
No cost
Copyright 2002 Chuck Peters, Systems Administrator, and Kathy Miles, Author.
DLESE Catalog ID: DLESE-000-000-002-673
Resource contact / Creator / Publisher:
Author: Kathy Miles
Starry Skies