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	Home Page NASA Website Order CDs Comments New Program! HU 2 Added Sept. 28, 2008 Hubbles Universe 2 DVD Earth Section: Test your knowledge on Polaris, constellations, how the seasons effect constellation observations, & Earth basics. Sun Section Learn about nuclear fusion, energy release, gamma rays, collisions, visible light and the wave theory of light. Solar System Section: Just when you thought you knew everything about the solar system it changes. What is a TNO, a plutoid, Oort cloud, SDO, Kuiper belt or a dwarf planet? How many planets? Stars Section: Learn astronomy with the most up-to-date images from the Hubble Space Telescope. Galaxies Section: Hubble has captured an eye-full of amazing, fantastic, gorgeous, awe-inspiring new images. Stay informed, because it changes constantly. Universe Section: View up-to-date images showing the presence of Dark Matter, starburst galaxies, super massive black holes, superclusters and the Local Group.		Hubbles Universe 2 DVD Sept. 2008 Announcing Hubbles Universe 2 DVD! It has up-to-date Hubble discoveries and over 130 interactive educational activities. It covers a wide range of Space Science topics. It is broken into 6 sections, targeting elementary, middle school and high school students. There are almost one thousand interactive questions, and over 2,300 sound bites. Extraordinary Earth March 2006 Over 6 million students affected in the last 6 years! Learn about Earth science in an interactive way! Hundreds of NASA images, questions, math exercises ready for classroom inclusion. Sky & Telescope 2003 Review Sky & Telescope review of Hubble's Universe in Software Review section. Sky & Telescope July 2002 Solar System 2001 consists of seven lessons and five activities to teach 5th- to 7th-grade students about the Sun and its family. ... The software is built upon national science and math standards, so it can be part of school curricula across the United States. Astronomy Now Aug 1997 Thomas Devlin and Dr. John Wood, from NASA are responsible for creating and distributing eductional software called PCs in Space ..... Teacher Surveys The NASA Strategic Plan mandates that we involve the educational community in our endeavors to inspire Americas students, create learning opportunities, enlighten inquisitive minds, and communicate widely the content, relevancy, and excitement of NASA s missions and discoveries. This new series of interactive Internet-based activities incorporates many of NASA s Earth Science Services, Solar System, and Hubble Space Telescope discoveries into existing curricula, with the ability to have sound, animations and advanced activities.
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