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Using the Tools of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
The database provides photometric and spectroscopic data of millions of...
9 Enrolled -
How to Design a Microgravity Experiment
This course is to help students focus their efforts in...
13 Enrolled -
Detecting Orbital Debris Using Albedo
Orbital debrs is a looming problem! Space lawmakers are scrambling...
5 Enrolled -
Space is Our Future – Middle School
This group of lessons encourage students to imagine how they...
6 Enrolled -
Eclipse Natural Phenomena HS
This project will introduce some of the phenomena associated with...
4 Enrolled -
Solar Eclipses (High School)
In this project, students learn about the causes, types and...
5 Enrolled -
Electromagnetic Waves – A Sea of Information
This course is to help students focus on their efforts...
5 Enrolled -
Ada’s Adventures in Space – What Happened Next?
This activity blends scientific vocabulary, collaboration, creativity and artistic skills....
6 Enrolled
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Using the Tools of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
The database provides photometric and spectroscopic data of millions of astronomical objects. This project will introduce you to the use of several simple tools.
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How to Design a Microgravity Experiment
This course is to help students focus their efforts in the task of designing a microgravity experiment for EIS. Experiment Design, Microgravity considerations, microbiological experiments, physical experiments, engineering experiments and physical experiments
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Detecting Orbital Debris Using Albedo
Orbital debrs is a looming problem! Space lawmakers are scrambling how to control the space above the earth from manmade objects and then there is the problem of natural objects coming close to or even...
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Space is Our Future – Middle School
This group of lessons encourage students to imagine how they will be a part of the exploration and settlement of space. There are activities to discuss inspiration, compare an Earth environment with a micro-gravity environment,...
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Eclipse Natural Phenomena HS
This project will introduce some of the phenomena associated with eclipses that can be seen during the partial phases, and assist the student in the observation and recording of these phenomena: Shadow bands, temperature changes,...
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Solar Eclipses (High School)
In this project, students learn about the causes, types and other notable features of solar eclipses.
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Spectroscopy
The spectrum of an object is a graph of the intensity of radiation vs wavelength. A blackbody will give a continuous spectrum. But what causes the lines in the other types of spectra? Can these...
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Electromagnetic Waves – A Sea of Information
This course is to help students focus on their efforts in the task of learning about electromagnetic waves. Topic areas: The characteristics and production of the waves. How astronomers use these waves to study the...
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Solar Eclipses (K-2)
In this lesson, students will learn about solar eclipses and participate in a fun activity to build eclipse glasses (also known as solar viewers) that will allow them to directly view solar eclipses.
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Ada’s Adventures in Space – What Happened Next?
This activity blends scientific vocabulary, collaboration, creativity and artistic skills. Some students will take part in a performance of the Ada story “Robotic Telescopes: How to find cool stuff in space”. The activity then invites...
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Water in Space (K-2)
Water is a wonderful liquid and so important to our world! Can you name the different ways we need water? We drink it, we cook with it, we use it for washing ourselves and our...
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Gloves and Gadgets K-2
This activity can be done with any items you have at home or in the classroom. The goal is to allow the students to role-play how astronauts manipulate their hands and fingers in space, outside...