1B23 – Educational Resources

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This page lists selected astro-educational web sites.

 

o ASTROEX
ESA/ESO Astronomy Exercise Series
o Astronomy In Your Hands
Includes activities for classroom and home, and instructions for constructing a planisphere (NZ).
o Astronomy Notes
A complete on-line textbook, by Nick Strobel (US)
o Astronomy 131
The University of Montana's elementary astronomy course, by David Friend (US)
o CLEA
"Contemporary Laboratory Experiences in Astronomy" – computer-based practical experiments
o Educational Guide to Space & Astronomy
Provided by the University of Leicester
o Everything You Wanted To Know
Not quite everything, this site is to encourage UK-based sixth formers thinking about going to university, and also undergraduates, to consider sponsorships, placements and other beneficial programmes and to look to the future in graduate opportunities.
o GCSE Physics
"Here you can learn all you need to know about the Earth and Universe."
o HotLiquidMagma.com
A practical guide to astronomy, edited by by FJ Napoleone
o National Schools Observatory
The National Schools' Observatory is a major web-based resource that allows UK schools to use world-class astronomical telescopes sited all around the world.
o Orrery
Includes a concise reference to solar-system bodies
o Resource Guide for Physical Sciences
Supplied by JISC, the Joint Information Systems Committee
o PPARC
A comprehensive listing of resources for teaching (UK)
o StarChild and NASA-Kids
NASA's learning centres for younger astronomers (US)
o Stars & Galaxies
A hypertext course for non-science undergraduates, by Richard McCray (US)
o Zoom Astronomy
An on-line site about space and astronomy, designed for people of all ages and levels of comprehension.

Please notify dead links, or suggestions for additional links, to idh(@)star.ucl.ac.uk

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