Station Spacewalk Game

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 with four jobs critical to help power up the space station so it can continue to operate at full capacity. But you have to move quickly and carefully, with a limited quantity of oxygen you must complete your EVAs and get back into the airlock before your air supply runs out.

This game features simulations of actual extravehicular activities (EVAs) conducted by NASA astronauts on missions to provide power to the space station. The graphics used in this game are based on real NASA missions and incorporate 3D graphics used by the Agency.

Telescope Videos

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 site have been reviewed by K-12 teachers and are safe for kids.

StarChild

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 9-12.  Accompanying the lessons are a glossary and links to other resources.

High school students should also check out the related site Imagine the Universe! for more extensive resources and to get answers to your astronomy questions.

ISS Education Kit

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 groups for this kit are primary school teachers throughout Europe and their pupils, aged 8-10.

mISSion possible

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 weightless, the International Space Station (ISS), communicating with space and watching from space.  

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