Kids Links largest Englishlanguage magazine for astronomy hobbyists. of reviews of books forkids along with Includes many links for parents, teachers, storytellers and http://hbogucki.staffnet.com/aemes/kidslink.htm
Extractions: Contents [ Bottom of Page ] Navigating the World Wide Web [ Contents ] Quick Reference Directories Search Engines Arts and Crafts [ Contents ] Aunt Annie's Craft Page The emphasis of this page is on learning, creativity, and problem-solving while doing craft projects. Each project includes a variety of designs to chosse from, patterns to print, and easy to follow instructios. Every project provides hours of enjoyment for both children and adults.
Links For Kids StarChild links to a number of other great childrens astronomy sitesincluding one with puzzles and games called NASA kids. Another http://www.goodteeth.com/forkids.htm
Extractions: document.write(secondIm) Goodteeth.com Joel Goodman, DDS There are numerous web sites devoted to educating young people about the wonders of astronomy. The best Ive found is supported by NASA; "Starchild A Learning Center For Young Astronomers" StarChild links to a number of other great childrens astronomy sites including one with puzzles and games called NASA Kids Another wonderful childrens site is Yahooligans The "facts about planets" throughout Goodteeth.com come from a super site crafted by a brilliant and generous individual, Bill Arnett . Check out his information-packed site! As you find more fun astronomy sites, email us so that we can share their web addresses with other site visitors. Other excellent Astronomy Links We have found many fun and interesting dental sites for children. Some of our favorites are: Parentsplace Dental Games Play and Care For Your Teeth Childrens Dentistry Making It Fun Email us with hyperlinks as you discover other dental sites which you would like to share with others.
Kosmoi: Space And Astronomy Links astronomy and space for kids Exciting children's astronomy web site. Exploredistant worlds and gallaxies, play games, even take free online classes. http://kosmoi.com/Space/links.shtml
Extractions: Space Astronomy Books Posters ... VHS Nature Agriculture Animals Biology ... Eyewitness: Space Exploration (Eyewitness Books) Carole Stott, Steve Gorton Recommendation: DK Space Encyclopedia Nigel Henbest, Heather Couper Recommendation: DK Guide to Space Peter Bond Recommendation: Space Shuttle: The First 20 Years The Astronauts' Experiences in Their Own Words Tony Reichhardt, Smithsonian Institution Astronomy Magazine, Star Charts, Space News-Astronomy.com
Central Texas Astronomical Society - Links Janice VanCleave Science for kids Web Page ThinkQuest's astronomy kids Site LinksRelated to Newsletter Articles March 2002 All About Saturn Photographing http://www.centexastronomy.org/links/
Kids Links Goosebumps! Harry Potter; Infection, Detection, Protection; kids astronomy;kids' Castle; kids Domain. Lego Worlds; Magic School Bus; Maine's Sec. http://www.bluehill.lib.me.us/kids.htm
Astronomy For Kids Basic introduction to astronomy for kids K6 grade. http://www.frontiernet.net/~kidpower/astronomy.html
What You Need To Know About™ The starting point for kids, parents and educators for fun links to earth science resources.Category Science Earth Sciences Education K through 12 About Japan All About Japan Sponsored links of the Day. Help. For rulesof use, read our User Agreement, Privacy Policy kids' Privacy Policy. http://www.about.com/
SSDOO Education: Activities For Students Space science activities for elementary and secondary students in astronomy, physics, life sciences, and space technology. http://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/education/kids.html
Kidseclipse: Total Solar Eclipse Teaches children the wonders of astronomy through total solar eclipses. Essays from kids worldwide, teach section for classrooms, and gallery of past eclipses. http://www.kidseclipse.com/
Deep Impact Home Page NASA homepage for the planned mission, which will fly by Comet 9P/Tempel 1 on July 4, 2005. Includes kids' activities, lesson plans for educators, and an amateur astronomy observing program. http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/
Extractions: A new launch window is announced for the Deep Impact project, the first mission to look deep inside a comet. Technical and management issues, including contamination in the propulsion system and late deliveries of key spacecraft components, resulted in delays in the pre-flight testing schedule. These concerns led Deep Impact Principal Investigator, Mike A'Hearn, to recommend to NASA a delay of launch. A launch window beginning December 30, 2004, previously identified as a back-up date, provides more thorough testing for the spacecraft systems before launch and allows us to arrive at Tempel 1 to impact it as originally scheduled on July, 4, 2005. NASA management approved the recommendation. (Click to enlarge) Deep Impact will be the first mission to make a spectacular, football-stadium-sized crater, seven to 15 stories deep, into the speeding comet. Dramatic images from both the flyby spacecraft and the impactor will be sent back to distant Earth as data in near-realtime. These first-ever views deep beneath a comet's surface, and additional scientific measurements will provide clues to the formation of the solar system. Amateur astronomers will combine efforts with astronomers at larger telescopes to offer the public an earth-based look at this incredible July 2005 encounter with a comet.
Astronomy For Kids Site produced by three sixth graders has information on several topics including black holes, nebulae, phases of the moon and our solar system. Visitors can try the virtual telescope to see planets and constellations. http://tqjunior.advanced.org/3645/page2.html
Kidsastronomy.com Stars, planets, black holes, Junior Astronomers Club. http://www.kidsastronomy.com/
Astronomy For Kids - Pluto Includes details about its location and facts related to visibility, size, surface and its moons. http://www.dustbunny.com/afk/planets/pluto/pluto.htm
Extractions: Click Pluto is the ninth, or last, planet in the solar system. The orbit, or path the planet takes around our Sun is an ellipse, or stretched out circle. For this reason there are times when Pluto is the furthest away from the Sun. There are also times when it is closer to the Sun than Neptune. Right now, Pluto is the furthest planet. Click Pluto is a very long way from the Sun. Its average distance from the Sun is over 3.5 billion (3,500,000,000) miles. The closest Pluto gets to the Sun is over 2.7 billion (2,700,000,000) miles, and the furthest away it gets is over 4.5 billion (4,500,000,000) miles. From Pluto, the Sun is not much brighter than any other star. Not only is Pluto a very long way from the Sun, but its orbit is tilted. If you could look at our solar system from an "edge", most of the planets would be on a line like a table top, with the Sun being in the middle. This line, also called a plane, is the ecliptic, and the rest of the planets' orbits stay on this line. Pluto's orbit, though is tilted at an angle to the rest of the solar system. Since Pluto is so far away from the Sun, one of its years, which is the time it takes for the planet to go around the Sun once, is a very long time. A year on Pluto lasts for 248 Earth years! A day on Pluto, which is the length of time it takes for the planet to spin around once, is also longer than a day here on Earth. It takes Pluto over six Earth days to spin around once. Pluto is also one of the planets that spins around in the opposite direction from Earth. This means that the dim Sun would rise in the West and set in the East.
Astronomy For Kids Provides a picture and brief facts about the planet. http://www.frontiernet.net/~kidpower/pluto.html
ASTRO KIDS: Pluto Offers details about its temperature, its size and its gravity. http://www.astronomy.com/content/static/AstroForKids/pluto.asp
Extractions: A. Stern/M. Buie/NASA/ESA PLUTO Pluto is the ninth planet from the sun. It orbits at a distance of 3,647 million miles (nearly 40 times as far from the sun as Earth is). With a diameter of only 1,485 miles, Pluto is the smallest planet in the solar system. It takes Pluto 248 Earth years to go around the sun one time, and 6 Earth days to spin on its axis one time. Scientists don't know if Pluto has an atmosphere or not. If it does, it may be made of methane and nitrogen. Pluto's surface has dark markings and is probably made of methane and nitrogen ice. Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 at Lowell Observatory. Because Pluto is smaller than many of the moons that orbit other planets, some scientists think Pluto should be reclassified as an asteroid. But unlike most asteroids, Pluto is round like the planets. To escape Pluto's gravity you need to travel 2,500 miles per hour. Pluto and Charon
Astronomy For Kids - Mars Provides details about its location, its visibility, size and number of satellites. http://www.dustbunny.com/afk/planets/mars/mars.htm
Extractions: Click Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun, located in between Earth and Jupiter. Mars is much further away from the Sun than Earth, with an average distance of around 140 million miles. The orbit, or path, the planet takes around the Sun is an mild ellipse, or stretched circle, with Mars being about 128 million miles from the Sun at its closest and 154 millions away at its furthest. Since Mars is so much further away from the Sun than Earth, a Martian year, which is the time it takes to go around the Sun once, is much longer at 687 Earth days. A Martian day, which is the time it takes the planet to spin around once, is a little longer than an Earth day, at 24 hours and 37 minutes. Can I See It? Click Yes you can, and you won't need a telescope. Mars is visible in the early morning sky from fall through early spring, and in the evening sky from spring through early summer. Mars will be a small, rust-colored light in the sky. The best way to find Mars is to use the sky maps here at Astronomy for Kids. If you can see Mars during the month, the maps will tell you where and when to look for it.
Astronomy For Kids Includes a picture and brief facts about this planet. http://www.frontiernet.net/~kidpower/mars.html
ASTRO KIDS: Mars Images, details and facts about this planet, its surface and its temperature. http://www.astronomy.com/content/static/AstroForKids/mars.asp
Extractions: JPL/NASA Mars is the fourth planet from the sun. Its orbit is roughly 142 million miles from the sun. The planet's reddish color is caused by rust (iron oxide) in the soil. Mars is the planet most like Earth. It takes 687 Earth days (about 2 Earth years) for Mars to go around the sun one time, and Mars spins on its axis at about the same speed as Earth does. It takes 24 hours and 37 minutes (about 1 Earth day) for Mars to rotate one time. Part of the middle section of Valles Marineris JPL/NASA Mars has the largest canyon (Valles Marineris), and the highest volcano (Olympus Mons) in the solar system. If Valles Marineris were on Earth, it would span the United States, from New York on the East Coast to California on the West Coast. It is about 1,300 miles long, 310 miles wide, and about 5 miles deep. Olympus Mons is nearly 3 times higher than Mount Everest. It rises above the Martian surface more than 82 thousand feet. This giant volcano's base is the size of Missouri. There are also lots of channels on Mars, and they look like Earth's river channels. Most scientists believe water once flowed on the martian surface, but new studies suggest there may still be water in some places on the surface.
Astronomy For Kids - Uranus Offers details about the location, the visibility, the size and the rings of this planet. http://www.dustbunny.com/afk/planets/uranus/uranus.htm
Extractions: Click Uranus is the seventh planet in our solar system, located in between Saturn and Neptune. Uranus is very far away from the Sun. Its average distance from the Sun is about one and three-quarters billion miles, or about twenty times the distance from the Sun to Earth. The path, or orbit, Uranus follows around the Sun is an ellipse, or stretched out circle, which means that Uranus' distance from the Sun varies from about 1.7 billion (1,700,000,000) miles at its closest to about 1.87 billion (1,870,000,00) miles at its furthest away. Click Since Uranus is so far away from the Sun, it takes it a very long to to go around the Sun once. A year on Uranus, the amount of time it takes for this trip, is 84 Earth years. A day on Uranus, which is the amount of time it takes for the plant to spin around, or rotate, once is shorter than a day here on Earth. The blue-green planet spins around once in a little over seventeen hours. One of the many odd facts about Uranus is that it is "lying on its side" as it faces the Sun. Earth faces the sun standing almost straight up, with the north and south poles at the top and bottom as it looks at the Sun. For some reason, Uranus has rolled over, so what we would think of as the south pole is facing the Sun. Scientists don't know why the planet does this, but it may be the result of a collision with some other body in space. Also, the planet rotates, or spins, from East to West which is the exact opposite of the way that Earth spins. Can I See It?
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