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Educational Resources
Educational Resources
- NASA Night Sky Network
- NASA for Educators
- NASA Student Programs (Higher Ed)
- The Space Place (Elementary-Adults)
- Starchild (Elementary and Middle School)
- NASA Kids Club
- Imagine the Universe (age 14 and up)
- NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge (High School & College Participation)
- Astronomy Picture of the Day
- SEDS (Students for the Exploration and Development of Space)
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
- Science @ NASA
- JPL Solar System Ambassador Program
- NASA
- Deep Space Network
- International Space Station
- Goddard Space Flight Center Education Programs
- The Cosmic Distance Scale
- Astronomy Education Resources ASP
What’s In The Sky Tonight?
- Star Gazers (Weekly Episodes)
- Sky Maps
- Sky and Telescope Magazine, Sky at a Glance
- Astronomy Magazine
- International Space Station
- Satellite Visibility (Shuttle, ISS, HST) Sky Maps, Constellations, etc.
- Spot the Station (NASA will send an alert when the International Space Station is passing over your area!)
Telescopes/Observatories/Spacecraft
- What type of telescope should I get?
- Eyes on the Solar System
- Hard Labor Creek Observatory
- Space Telescope Science Institute (Hubble Space Telescope)
- James Webb Space Telescope
- Additional, James Webb Space Telescope
- Chandra X-Ray Observatory
- Spitzer Space Telescope (Infrared)
- Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE)
Solar System
- Earth – JASON (Ocean surface topography from space)
- Moon – Exploring the Moon Teacher’s Guide
- Missions into the Solar System – JPL Missions
- Missions into the Solar System – Spacecraft Paper Models
- Comets – Rosetta
- Asteroids – Near Earth Objects
- Asteroids – Asteroid Watch
- Asteroids – DAWN (Mission to Asteroids Vesta and Ceres)
- Asteroids – NEAR-Shoemaker (Mission to Asteroid Eros)
- Asteroids – NEAR-Shoemaker Spacecraft Paper Model
- Mercury – MESSENGER (Mission to orbit Mercury, March 2004)
- Mars – Mars Mission
- Mars – Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity Rover)
- Mars – Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (2005)
- Mars – Mars Global Surveyor
- Mars – 2001 Mars Odyssey
- Jupiter – Juno
- Jupiter – Galileo (Mission to Jupiter and its moons)
- Saturn – Cassini-Huygens (Mission to Saturn and Titan)
- Pluto – Pluto-Kuiper Express New Horizons (Mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, 2006)
- Sun – Space Weather
- Sun – More Space Weather
- Sun – Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)
- Sun – Stereo
- Sun – SOHO (Mission studying the sun)
- Sun – HESSI
- Sun – Heliophysics
- Exoplanets or Extrasolar Planets (Planets orbiting other stars outside our solar system in the Milky Way) – Planet Quest
- Exoplanets or Extrasolar Planets (Planets orbiting other stars outside our solar system in the Milky Way) – KEPLER (Mission to look for terrestrial extrasolar planets, 2006)
- Exoplanets or Extrasolar Planets (Planets orbiting other stars outside our solar system in the Milky Way) – Planet Hunters (you can participate in finding exoplanets using the Kepler star light graphs!)
- Galaxies – Galex (Galaxy Evolution Explorer)
- Planetaria – Worldwide Planetarium Database
- Planetaria – Southeastern Planetarium Association list of regional planetaria
- Planetaria – Georgia Southern University Planetarium (Statesboro, GA)
- Astronomy Club – Astronomy Clubs in America
- Astronomy Club – Statesboro Astronomy Club
- Astronomy Club – Sky and Telescope
- Astronomy Club – Oglethorpe Astronomical Association
- Calendars – Space Place Calendar
Last updated: 4/20/2022