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Activities and Challenge
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Early Childhood
Space Make Your Own Straw Rockets - simple air powered rockets My Galaxies lets you type out your name or message using real galaxies and tells you the name of the galaxies used. 
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Use the Birthday Stars computer to find out your birthday star! The Birthday Stars computer will look for a star that is your age in light years away from the Earth. This means that the light we're seeing from the star today actually left the star around when you were born and has taken your entire life to reach Earth.
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WASP - The Woodside Australian Science Project (WASP) aims to produce support packages for the Earth Science component of the Australian Curriculum. These packages will be filled with hands-on activities for students, with teacher support materials. As each package is released teacher professional development sessions will be made available to Western Australian teachers.
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Middle Childhood
Space NEW See the ISS with your own eyes? Find out when it will be orbiting over your city at SpotTheStation.NASA.gov. Build Your Own Planetarium see video >>>>> Learn how to easily build an inexpensive planetarium to introduce students to star patterns and let them create their own constellations. This activity integrates science, technology maths and language arts. Stories in the Sky (PDF materials and worksheet) Moon Phases doc Uses golf balls and golf tees to help understand moon phases. Eclipse and Moon Phase Simulator interactive 3D Learning Simulation of Lunar Eclipses, Solar Eclipses, and Moon Phases Try this Sundial doc SBE activity, really works well. Making Craters Activity doc Make a Questacon Star Gazer, you can vary this activity and use cardboard tubes. Eight Space Activities doc from http://www.galaxy.net/~k12/ Ten Space activities from Berkeley web Build a Foam Rocket see video >>>>> Investigate rocket stability and trajectory with rubber band-powered foam rockets. From NASAS's Jet Propulsion Lab Foam Rocket PDF instructions Earth - lesson ideas Geoscience Weathering doc eight easy to manage activities for demonstrating weathering Make a 3D Paper Volcano doc Make a beautiful 3D Trilobite doc more 3D models at CGS Make a Simple Earthquake Detector from SBE Make an Incredible Egg Geode from Sick Science |
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Make a Groundwater Model - PowerPoint
Works as demonstration or best for group work. White Bunnings play sand or gravel can be used (sand is difficult to reuse if heavy quantities of food dye are used). A stunning lesson to learn about groundwater year 2 - Earth’s resources, including water, are used in a variety of ways (ACSSU032)
Works as demonstration or best for group work. White Bunnings play sand or gravel can be used (sand is difficult to reuse if heavy quantities of food dye are used). A stunning lesson to learn about groundwater year 2 - Earth’s resources, including water, are used in a variety of ways (ACSSU032)
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SPACE Web sites and Interactive Activities Astronomy Picture of the Day WorldWide Telescope NASA Kids Club Luna Lander Senior Luna Lander Junior We Choose the Moon - relive the first manned flight to the moon - Amazing Moon Phases Interactive Challenge NASA Explains Moon Phases vid link NASA;s International Space Station Virtual Tour Make a model of the International Space Station from CSIRO NASA RELEASES INTERACTIVE 3-D VIEWS OF SPACE STATION Get up close and Personal with the International Space station, find the full screen and enjoy a Gigapan view Planet Profiles from Discover Primary Science Dublin How Big is the Universe? The Scale of the Universe ... Zoom from the edge of the universe to the quantum foam of spacetime and learn the scale of things along the way! From NASA, Eyes on the Solar System. Watch the intro to get started and the video tutorials to become an expert. > Junk in Space pick up the space junk and find out about it -a game from " Windows to the Universe" The Sarah Jane Adventures Earth Sun and Moon > A BBC game. |
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EARTH
Websites and Interactive Activities Stop Disasters - learn how to prevent disasters with this amazing game. Forces of Nature - build volcanoes, tornadoes and more from National Geographic. |
DISASTER RESILIENCE EDUCATION FOR SCHOOLS
For teachers and students, this toolkit of disaster resilience education resources focuses on both individual and community resilience, vital components to developing a shared understanding of the critical role everyone plays in developing a disaster resilient Australia.
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NEW NASA Eyes on the Earth - interactive >
Flood Tide Website which uses google earth to show where sea levels could be in the distant future. www.kidsgreen.org Rising Sea Video can be used with upper school students |
 Eyes on the Earth 3D from NASA. This is a neat website that lets students track missions as they are happening with the satellites that are collecting information about the Earth from space. |
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Interactive Rock Cycle Animation
This cutaway view of Earth shows where some common rock-forming processes occur. Embedded animations will illustrate the path of a rock moving through the rock cycle. |
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Discover rock secrets through these activities. Create a rock collection as you learn about the three main types of rock, find out how to tell the different rock types apart, and see how rocks change from one type into another!
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 NASA introduces the concepts of climate, weather, and Earth as a system.
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Build Your Own Space Mission
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Build Your Own Space Mission: This online game allows students to design their explorer, build their spacecraft and study a planet or moon in our solar system. It blends kid-friendly graphics with real space images.
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World Wonders ProjectFrom the archaeological areas of Pompeii to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, Google’s World Wonders Project aims to bring to life the wonders of the modern and ancient world.
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