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An interactive adventure for young astronomers guiding Arty and his alien friend Greg through our solar system.
www.artyastro.com
Collection of web-based activities designed for classroom use, but made available for everyone to enjoy.
amazing-space.stsci.edu
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.
hea-www.harvard.edu
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.
starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov
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.
school.discovery.com
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.
www.azinet.com
Satellite Tracking and Prediction
See the space station, the space shuttle and many other satellites from your back yard.
www.heavens-above.com
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.
www.powersof10.com
An official NASA site with games and activities for kids interested in interplanetary travel - especially to Mars.
mars.jpl.nasa.gov
JavaScript calculator of sizes and distances of solar system bodies for making a scale model.
www.exploratorium.edu
Has games, stories and activities about space and aeronautics.
www.nasa.gov
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.
galileo.rice.edu
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.
saturn.jpl.nasa.gov
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.
www.kintera.org
Build a Newtonian Physics Machine
If you build it carefully, this Newtonian Physics Machine device demonstrates one of the basic laws of nature.
spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov