Recommended Websites - for science content knowledge

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Overview
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/space_missions/overview.html - includes "ask a scientist"
http://ology.amnh.org/astronomy/milkyway/index.htm      

Background knowledge http://www.mjjsales.com/articles/basic-facts-about-the-sun.html

Universe and Galaxies
http://www.worldwidetelescope.org
http://www.seds.org/hst/96-29a.html

What are galaxies and how do they form:
http://science.hq.nasa.gov/universe/science/galaxies.html

Milky Way
http://ology.amnh.org/astronomy/milkyway/index.htm                 http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/gal_milky.html
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/astro/galax.html

Sun:
http://www.nineplanets.org/sol.html

Layers of the sun:
http://fusedweb.pppl.gov/CPEP/Chart_Pages/5.Plasmas/SunLayers.html
http://www.space.com/sun/

Reason for the Seasons
http://www.gatesscience.info/teamescience/project/sunangle/2008/sunangle08.htm

Moon:
http://www.nineplanets.org/luna.html
http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/moon_worldbook.html

Planets:

Mercury:
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/mercury.htm
http://www.nineplanets.org/mercury.html
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/mercury/mercury.html

Venus:
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/venus.htm
http://www.nineplanets.org/venus.html
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/venus/venus.html

Earth:
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/earth.htm
http://www.nineplanets.org/earth.html
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/earth.html

Astronaut Photography:
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/

Mars:
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/mars.htm
http://www.nineplanets.org/mars.html
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/mars/mars.html

Jupiter:
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/jupiter.htm
http://www.nineplanets.org/jupiter.html
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/jupiter/jupiter.html

Saturn:
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/saturn.htm
http://www.nineplanets.org/saturn.html
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/saturn/saturn.html 

Uranus:
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/uranus.htm
http://www.nineplanets.org/uranus.html
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/uranus/uranus.html

Neptune:
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/neptune.htm
http://www.nineplanets.org/neptune.html
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/neptune/neptune.html

Pluto: (no longer a planet)
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/pluto.htm

Stars:
http://science.hq.nasa.gov/universe/science/stars.html
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l2/stars.html

Different stars:
http://www.kidsastronomy.com/stars.htm

Missions:
Overview:
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/space_missions/overview.html

Human space flight
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/space_missions/manned.html

Launch records:
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/missions.html

Important People in Space:
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0110163/famous_space_explorers.htm

Commonly Asked Questions and Answers:
http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/resources/qa/galaxies.php.p=Astronomy+basics%40%2Ceds%2Castronomy-basics.php&a=%2Ceds

Hands on Activities:
Build a Solar System:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/solar_system/index.html

Galaxy Mapping:
http://www.reachoutmichigan.org/funexperiments/agesubject/lessons/newton/GlxyMpng.html

Assessment:
Space:
http://www.pitara.com/activities/quiz/online.asp?qname=space

Space School Musical:
http://discovery.nasa.gov/musical/cool.html

Amazing Space:
http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/resources/explorations/index.shtml