Space infomation needed
dcsmiller
Hi everyone,
Sorscha, myself, and my two homeschool neighbors will be starting a
Space-unit in January. Are children are ages 2,4,4,4,6,6, so
obviously we need a lot of hands-on activities. Building, creating,
exploding, etc. Any ideas for us newbies!
Thanking you in advance!
Crystal & Sorscha
Sorscha, myself, and my two homeschool neighbors will be starting a
Space-unit in January. Are children are ages 2,4,4,4,6,6, so
obviously we need a lot of hands-on activities. Building, creating,
exploding, etc. Any ideas for us newbies!
Thanking you in advance!
Crystal & Sorscha
Nancy Wooton
on 12/18/01 9:23 AM, dcsmiller at dcsmiller@... wrote:
Homeschool Association of California. ZILLIONS of cool websites are listed
there, covering any subject you could imagine. I'm sure the NASA site is
among them, but in case it's not, try
http://www.space.com/
Their links page for kids is
http://www.space.com/php/spacelinks/Kids/root.php
Dorling Kindersley books have series for younger kids; I think we have one
on space which included activities for exploring gravity, etc. Also, the
Magic Schoolbus book on space is *great.* We all learned a lot from it!
Nancy
> Hi everyone,Have you ever looked at www.hsc.org ? That's the website for the
>
> Sorscha, myself, and my two homeschool neighbors will be starting a
> Space-unit in January. Are children are ages 2,4,4,4,6,6, so
> obviously we need a lot of hands-on activities. Building, creating,
> exploding, etc. Any ideas for us newbies!
>
> Thanking you in advance!
> Crystal & Sorscha
>
Homeschool Association of California. ZILLIONS of cool websites are listed
there, covering any subject you could imagine. I'm sure the NASA site is
among them, but in case it's not, try
http://www.space.com/
Their links page for kids is
http://www.space.com/php/spacelinks/Kids/root.php
Dorling Kindersley books have series for younger kids; I think we have one
on space which included activities for exploring gravity, etc. Also, the
Magic Schoolbus book on space is *great.* We all learned a lot from it!
Nancy
Tami Labig-Duquette
NASA has an awesome kids club!
http://nasakids.com.join.asp
Once you sign your kids up, they send you a postcard to confirm registration
(we got ours in 2 days).
Space weather also has a kids site.
Indiana Tami
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Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 17:23:07 -0000
Hi everyone,
Sorscha, myself, and my two homeschool neighbors will be starting a
Space-unit in January. Are children are ages 2,4,4,4,6,6, so
obviously we need a lot of hands-on activities. Building, creating,
exploding, etc. Any ideas for us newbies!
Thanking you in advance!
Crystal & Sorscha
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http://nasakids.com.join.asp
Once you sign your kids up, they send you a postcard to confirm registration
(we got ours in 2 days).
Space weather also has a kids site.
Indiana Tami
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Subject: [AlwaysLearning] Space infomation needed
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 17:23:07 -0000
Hi everyone,
Sorscha, myself, and my two homeschool neighbors will be starting a
Space-unit in January. Are children are ages 2,4,4,4,6,6, so
obviously we need a lot of hands-on activities. Building, creating,
exploding, etc. Any ideas for us newbies!
Thanking you in advance!
Crystal & Sorscha
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<A HREF="http://celestia.sourceforge.net/">Celestia: A 3D Space Simulator</A> Here is a good download program that is free.
From their site....
Celestia is a real-time visual simulation of space in our local region of the
universe. Choose a point within about 1000 light years of Earth, and Celestia
will show you an approximation of how it would appear to your eyes were you
actually there. Some of what Celestia shows is necessarily hypothetical--the
farther away from Earth you get, the less real data there is and the more
guesswork is involved. Thus Celestia supplements observational data with good
guesses based on models of stellar and planetary processes. ....
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From their site....
Celestia is a real-time visual simulation of space in our local region of the
universe. Choose a point within about 1000 light years of Earth, and Celestia
will show you an approximation of how it would appear to your eyes were you
actually there. Some of what Celestia shows is necessarily hypothetical--the
farther away from Earth you get, the less real data there is and the more
guesswork is involved. Thus Celestia supplements observational data with good
guesses based on models of stellar and planetary processes. ....
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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Sorscha, myself, and my two homeschool neighbors will be starting a
Space-unit in January. Are children are ages 2,4,4,4,6,6, so obviously we
need a lot of hands-on activities. Building, creating, exploding, etc. Any
ideas for us newbies!
I don't remember which site I got this from, but I have cut-out plans to make
a small Mars Pathfinder if you're interested. Email me at KPGrew96@....
Space-unit in January. Are children are ages 2,4,4,4,6,6, so obviously we
need a lot of hands-on activities. Building, creating, exploding, etc. Any
ideas for us newbies!
I don't remember which site I got this from, but I have cut-out plans to make
a small Mars Pathfinder if you're interested. Email me at KPGrew96@....
[email protected]
In a message dated 12/18/01 10:25:36 AM, dcsmiller@... writes:
<< Sorscha, myself, and my two homeschool neighbors will be starting a
Space-unit in January. Are children are ages 2,4,4,4,6,6, so
obviously we need a lot of hands-on activities. Building, creating,
exploding, etc. Any ideas for us newbies! >>
Felicitas/Nancy's ideas were great, but I have a different kind of idea.
Read more John Holt, and try to get away from "doing units."
Space was there last month and it will be there in March. Why connect space
with January? Or have a space party and blow stuff up, but let the kids do
or not do, and learn or not learn. "Doing a unit" has a stiffness and
expectation and limitation to it that not only isn't part of a natural real
life, but that will ultimately serve to separate learning from "non-learning."
And if I sound crazy but unit studies sounds really good to you, there are
sites and lists who will agree with you, and be all about unit studies.
Sandra
<< Sorscha, myself, and my two homeschool neighbors will be starting a
Space-unit in January. Are children are ages 2,4,4,4,6,6, so
obviously we need a lot of hands-on activities. Building, creating,
exploding, etc. Any ideas for us newbies! >>
Felicitas/Nancy's ideas were great, but I have a different kind of idea.
Read more John Holt, and try to get away from "doing units."
Space was there last month and it will be there in March. Why connect space
with January? Or have a space party and blow stuff up, but let the kids do
or not do, and learn or not learn. "Doing a unit" has a stiffness and
expectation and limitation to it that not only isn't part of a natural real
life, but that will ultimately serve to separate learning from "non-learning."
And if I sound crazy but unit studies sounds really good to you, there are
sites and lists who will agree with you, and be all about unit studies.
Sandra