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Activities and Challenge                   
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

Earth Sun and Moon swf
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See the ISS with your own eyes? Find out when it will be orbiting over your city at SpotTheStation.NASA.gov.
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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


From NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab
Learn how to make your own inflatable planetarium
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)
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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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Eyes on the Solar System" is a 3-D environment full of real NASA mission data. Explore the cosmos from your computer. Hop on an asteroid. Fly with NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. See the entire solar system moving in real time. It's up to you. You control space and time. Click on the picture

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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
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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.
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
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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.
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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Climate Kids from NASA >
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NASA introduces the concepts of climate, weather, and Earth as a system. Explore this great site. Click on the picture
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Learn all about Eclipses

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.
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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NASA - Space Place Games

​Explore the Solar System - spaceplace.nasa.gov/solar-system-explorer/en/#/review/solar-system-explorer/game.swf
Slyder :: The Infrared Universe - https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/spitzer-slyder/en/