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the Online Collaborative Mentoring Project 2002 for the Senior School students of Bayswater Primary School and Ocean Grove Primary School. 

                                                                                                                







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PN-2000-000933

What's your Learning Style? 
Children's joint project planner
Multimedia Student Project Evaluation    

Timeline
Space Project Proforma

NASA - 
http://www.nasa.gov/

Outer Orbit - Ask an Astronomer

http://www.outerorbit.com/ask/index.html
Students can ask astronomers questions, and find out about their work. 
Planetarium at Scienceworks, the (Melbourne)
http://www.mov.vic.gov.au/planetarium/
Includes schools programs and information on the sun, stars, universe, planets, 
space exploration and current events. Good site for students and teachers.
ScienceTREK - Internet projects for students
http://www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/scitrek/projects.htm
Solar System Scale Model Meta Page
http://www.vendian.org/mncharity/dir3/solarsystem/
A page of links to other ideas for constructing scale models of the Solar System.
 Good site for students and teachers
Interactive Solar System
http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/space/solarsystem/solarsystemjava.html
An interesting site which looks at the orbits of the planets. Good site for students and teachers.
Shuttle Web
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/ssa/docs/Space.Shuttle/general.shtml
Space Telescope Science Institute - Public Information
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/
Includes some great text and images from the Hubble Telescope. 
Students may need help with navigation.

View of the Solar System
http://www.solarviews.com/
Also in German! This is one of the best space sites I've come across so far, including great statistics and images on the planets, asteroids, comets, meteorites, history/people, and links to other sites. Good for students and teachers.
Women in space
http://www.nasa.gov/
Zoom Astronomy
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/

 

Excursion:
The Planetarium at Scienceworks
Museum of Victoria
2 Booker Street
Spotswood 3015
Ph 93924800
93924848

http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/planetarium/

Incursion:
Journeyman Education Services,
Starlab Presentations and Spacewatch Presentations
4 Stanley Street
Williamstown 3016
pH 93999089
F 93978239

Email starlab@labyrinth.net.au
http://melbourne.citysearch.com.au/E/V/MELBO/0080/59/14/


Senior Online Art Gallery

Ocean Grove P.S. - City to Surf

Banners created at www.flamingtext.com
Animations at
www.animfactory.com

Ideas for Microworlds Projects at http://www.microworlds.com/library/animations/index.html

Space Web Sites :

Amazing Space Web-Based Activities
http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/
This is a great site, including information on galaxies, stars, blackholes, the Hubble Field Academy, etc. and has great images and animations. Good for students and teachers.
Astronomy 161 - The Solar System, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/index.html
Includes information on lunar tides, planet classification, time and scales in the universe, seasons, constellations, eclipses, and much more. Students may need help decoding some of the text.
BBC - Space
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/index.shtm
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Build a Solar System
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/solar_system/
This page contains a calculating table. You fill in the sun size that you have and it will calculate the diameters and the distances of the planets. You can do this on-line or download the calculator which works with most spreadsheet programs. Good for students with teacher help.
Earth Size Comparisons
http://ic-www.arc.nasa.gov/ic/projects/bayes-group/Atlas/size/Earth/
NASA site that compares planet sizes to Earth. Good site for students and teachers.
Earth and Moon Viewer
http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html
Includes links to animations and images of the Sun, Moon and Earth in orbit. 
Excellent site for students and teachers to get a good look at our Earth.
Galileo Mission 
http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov/

Johnson Space Centre 
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/

JPL Solar System Dynamics
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/
Good site for students and teachers, including information on planets, natural satellites,
 comets, asteroids, and other solar system bodies.
Kennedy Space Center
http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/
Magellan Mission to Venus
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/magellan
The mission of one of NASA's interplanetary spacecraft, including some very interesting 
images and data from Venus. Good site for students and teachers.

Mt Wilson Observatory
http://www.mtwilson.edu
A site for middle years students. Includes pictures of sunspots, the moon, historical text, etc. Students may need some help decoding some of the texts.
Muppets from Space
http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/muppetsfromspace/index_withnav.html