Celestial calendar of viewing events

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AccuWeather (1-10 cloud cover scale)

see categories for when to view showers, planets, constellations, etc.

Friday nights roof top observing

hourly forecast

This Week at a Glance

History of past forecasts on the left

Clear sky report moon phase, month by month highlights to observe

APOD image

Real-time data for when to look for ISS by country/state/city

Hosted by Space Weather.com this site lists when the ISS (in addition to other visible satellites) will be passing your zipcode

search for V107H1

Sample image

safe landing sites Quicktime video

Simulation vidoes describing mission

animation

current phase and eclipse dates/locations

teaching site

history of lunar exploration

You Tube video

When to look

NASA 2014 topographic map

video

video

images

partially restored video clips

real-time exoplanet count and teaching site

detailed descriptions of all exoplanets discovered to date (see interactive catalog)

good descriptions of all objects in the solar system

Interactive calculator

video from Spirit rover

simulation

real-time footage

submit your name to be placed on rover mission to Mars in 2011

educational descriptions of the moons of Jupiter

image

NASA site with info about each planet's moons, facts, and a gallery of pics

Distance between planets

You Tube video (simulation)

You Tube video (simulation of 2012 landing)

launch and landing simulation

You Tube simulation

NASA site

in timeline fashion

mission status updates

cute overview!

parts

overview and links

directions

Voyager (24 min)

Voyager leaves the solar system (5 min)

SciShow

real-time pics of Sun activity

image depicting distance of the Earth from the Sun at aphelion and perihelion

with common stars identified

Astronomy modules

Game

Misconceptions described

You Tube video with cute music!

NASA site

Shows spectrum lines as strips of color and also as astronomers use them (graphs)**can manipulate lines on graph and spectrum ch

project site

students can request telescope time and then access images

simulation that allows you to use more than one lens

To the Edge of Space video 21 min (Hubble Deep Field)

viewing galaxies

Astronomy and Nature TV

Astronomy and Nature TV

Astronomy and Nature TV

Harvard students explain why we have seasons...

pic (1957)

map

article by Universe Today

So bright you can sometimes see distant stars during the daytime!

video of a working version made of Legos

APOD

Lnks to Voyager's sounds and sounds from the gas giants

like powers of 10 video

6 min video

Big Bang and the Expansion of the Universe

Mythology, detailed star info, fun facts

timeline

image

pic

video

number of unshared electrons, bond angles, diagrams, and examples

educational reference

educational reference

number of unshared electrons, bond angles, diagrams, and examples

educational resource

chart

animation

educational resource

educational resource

animation

rules for

educational reference

overview video

video

video

video

has liks to cool demos

educational reference

educational reference

interactive periodic table

list

image

image

beautiful photographs and descriptions

image

ScienceBob

demo video

lab activity aka "How is candle like a cookie?"

You Tube video

vidoes

directions and description

activity directions and description

interactive game

ScienceBob

(not necessary to add more lemons for more power

good for quick reference

excellent for information about uses and facts about each element

You Tube video (poured into a cup)

You Tube video (gallium spoon)

You Tube video

"Popular Science" article

You Tube video (kid)

image

image

highlights specified categories

description

25 min

11 min video

image

Richard Alley video

Richard Alley video

ScienceBob

heat episode

pages and descriptions and pictures for each type

image

pic

pic

image

bonus example

interactive simmulation

animation

Hershel Friedman, 2000

Amethyst Galleries, Inc, 2010

2002

2nd floor Mineral Display

7 min

(free for now....)

see Invertebrates/snail zombies and ocean fairies AND Bugs/monarchs link among others

educational site

video clip

youngest evolved mammal (guinea pig family)

video

PSU Entomology Dept

Sea Monster episode

FOR EARTH SCIENCE

5 min video on studying how they evolved

NPR story (evolution: do birds learn to sing? or are they born with songs?)

NPR story (evolution: bird adaptations to mimic sounds)

Richard Alley video

image

image

images

Google image retrevial

search for images and view distribution maps

pics and animations

times

info about migration, raising, and life cycle

animations

animation

animations

article

Google image retrevial

image

Richard Alley video

decking material

Richard Alley video

painting

interactive atlas

image

image

Ted Ed (4 min)

really cool video

interactive dichotomous key

Fact or fiction? Pseudo-science article

image

5 life forms that live on the edge

8 creatures

Details for each of Jupiter's largest moons

SciShow

(5 min) video clip

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