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NASA

Nasa: Astronomy Picture of the Day: Gamma Ray Quasar

For Students 9th - 10th
A photograph and description of quasar 3C279 viewed in gamma-rays. It was unexpectedly discovered and was one of the brightest objects in the gamma-ray sky until it suddenly faded.
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PBS

Star Map

For Students 9th - 10th
This star map has five different constellations along with four newly discovered solar systems. If you are located in the northern hemisphere you can use this resource to locate stars.
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NASA

Astronomical Society of the Pacific: Telescope Treasure Hunt

For Students 9th - 10th
This hands-on astronomy activity lets learners hunt for different objects in the night sky that contribute to stellar and planetary formation, using a Treasure List. They will learn how stars and their planets form and will find objects...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: How High Is Big? Using an Astrolabe

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students observe and measure the shadows of fixed objects throughout the school year to learn about how the seasonal change affects the sun's position in the sky.
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: English (Esl) Label Me! Printouts

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Over 100 handouts with answer sheets you can print and use to help build English vocabulary. Numerous topics and themes are covered: everyday words, math terms, seasonal and holiday words, geographical terms, animals, opposites, parts of...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Navigating at the Speed of Satellites

For Teachers 6th - 9th
For thousands of years, navigators have looked to the sky for direction. Today, celestial navigation has simply switched from using natural objects to human-created satellites. A constellation of satellites, called the Global Positioning...
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University of Virginia

University of Virginia: How the Greeks Used Geometry to Understand the Stars

For Students 9th - 10th
An article explaining how the Greeks were able to use their science and mathematics to predict where astronomical objects such as the Planets could be found in the nighttime sky even though their underlying premise was that the earth did...
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Curated OER

Science Kids: Science Images: Telescope

For Students 9th - 10th
This photo shows a common telescope used to observe the stars and other astronomy related objects seen in the night sky such as planets, moons and comets.