Amazing Space
Collection of web-based activities designed for classroom use, but made available for everyone to enjoy.
Building an Inexpensive Galilean Style Telescope
Students at Rice University explain how they re-created the telescope that Galileo used to make the first ever magnified views of the stars and planets... and all for less than 30 dollars.
Eyes on the Sky, Feet on the Ground
This collection of children's online astronomy activities, is a product of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Designed for grades 2 to 6, it contains hundreds of fun explorations into astronomy as a classroom tool for learning how to theorize, experiment, and analyze data.
Mars: Just For Kids
An official NASA site with games and activities for kids interested in interplanetary travel - especially to Mars.
NASA Qwhiz
Qwhiz is a real-time, multi-player web game for kids and teachers. Read some material on the Internet, then answer questions about it.
Cassini Kid's Page
Spacecraft Cassini is on its way to Saturn. Download the parts and instructions to build a paper model of the Cassini space probe. Find Saturn in the sky and discover more about this exciting adventure in space.
Understanding the Universe - Discovery Channel School
Discover the incredible size and history of the universe through interactive gaming. Learn about important people who taught us about space, and tour some distant galaxies.
Build a Newtonian Physics Machine
If you build it carefully, this Newtonian Physics Machine device demonstrates one of the basic laws of nature.
Space Experiment Module (SEM)
Make discoveries about space through experiments kids can do at home. By NASA.
StarChild: A Learning Center for Young Astronomers
Offers an interactive gaming and entertainment center for kids who wish to learn more about the solar system, the universe, and space.
Arty the Part Time Astronaut
An interactive adventure for young astronomers guiding Arty and his alien friend Greg through our solar system.
Project Starshine
Your school can help to build a satellite which will be launched from the Space Shuttle. You can track the Starshine satellites from your back yard.
Walk the Solar System
JavaScript calculator of sizes and distances of solar system bodies for making a scale model.
Satellite Tracking and Prediction
See the space station, the space shuttle and many other satellites from your back yard.
Who's Out There? Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Game that explores tools and knowledge required to design a research project to search for extraterrestrial intelligence, then tests your skills at searching for alien signals.
NASA for Kids
Has games, stories and activities about space and aeronautics.
Powers of 10
Discover the relative size of everything in the universe. Beginning with a 1 metre square, each successive page jumps back 10 times until you are a billion light years away. Lots of good activities and information. Based on the Eames film of the same name.
Sea and Sky: Travelport Entrance
Fun and informative site for kids of all ages. Games, resources, galleries, and latest developments in exploration of sea and sky. Lots of great graphics.
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