Science Topics

Lists of web sites categorized by subject areas within science.

Aerospace technology

1. Cassini-Huygens: mission to Saturn and Titan
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 011260
   This Internet site, maintained by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), presents the Cassini-Huygens mission, an international venture designed to conduct a detailed study of Saturn. Cassini-Huygens is a collaborative effort between NASA and the European and Italian Space Agencies.
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2. The space place
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 3 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 012548
   This Internet site, maintained for students, contains projects and activities with information designed to help kids understand the techniques scientists use to explore and map objects in deep space and on Earth. From the homepage, visitors can choose from activities, and projects such as (Make Spacey Things), word games and puzzles with space facts (Do Spacey Things).
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3. Space for species
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2002 Grade(s): 6 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 025146
   This interactive World Wide Web (WWW) site allows students in grades 6-9 to track migratory animals and monitor their habitats from space satellites. Developed by the Canadian Space and Wildlife Agencies and the Canadian Centre for Remote Sensing, this web-based learning site combines science and technology to help students conduct scientific inquiries.
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4. Spaceflight now
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 026973
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site posts news articles related to space flight and space exploration. News articles are gathered from a variety of sources, and each article includes text and full-color photographs.
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5. Astro-venture
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2000 Grade(s): 5 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 025712
   This web site is designed to teach students in grades 5-8 about astronomy, by using movies, narration, and interactive exercises. The resource is part of the NASA QUEST series, which informs and trains students about the factors required to support life on a planet.
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6. NASAexplores: express lessons and online resources
   Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2001 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 019093
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed for teachers of grades K to 12, provides articles and related lesson plans and activities on behalf of NASA's Aerospace Technology Enterprise and the Human Exploration and Development of Space (HEDS) Enterprise. NASAexplores (Express Lessons and Online Resources) is designed to generate interest in and understanding of NASA's research and technology, and to inspire the educational community by using the Internet to provide standards-based educational materials.
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7. Science@NASA
   Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2001 Grade(s): 1 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 020204
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for 1 to 12 science educators by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, provides the latest science and space related stories. The mission of this website is to help the public understand how exciting NASA research is and to help NASA scientists fulfill their outreach responsibilities.
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8. The educator's guide to NEAR
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1999 Grade(s): 6 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 014299
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed by teachers in the Lockheed Martin Graduate Fellows Program, provides background information, lesson plans, and activities related to the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission. The goal of the mission was to gain information about the nature and origin of asteroids, meteoroids, and comets.
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9. Mars Academy
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1998 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 012761
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for grades 9 to 12 and postsecondary, presents an online collaborative project where students all over the world are designing a simulation of a manned mission to Mars. The mission design uses existing and foreseeable technology (for example, the existence of the International Space Station) to approximate and integrate solutions to the design problems into a Mars mission.
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10. Discover engineering.org
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1999 Grade(s): 6 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 026088
    This Internet site provides students with activities and career information about engineering. The site was developed as part of National Engineers Week to promote the various professions and highlight the many engineering accomplishments that affect everyday life.
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11. The physics of ...
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1998 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 013872
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by Tom Robinson's Physics Classes at Kentridge Senior High School in Kent, WA, introduces visitors to students' research projects that have been done through Mr. Robinson's physics classes since 1995.
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12. Popular science
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1998 Grade(s): 9 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 014906
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by Times Mirror Magazines, is the official Web site of Popular Science Magazine. Popular Science covers science and technology for the layperson, with plenty of consumer-oriented information as well as the latest advances in electronics and space science.
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13. Imagine the universe!
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1996 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 012183
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for grades 9 to 12 by the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC), is dedicated to a discussion about the Universe: our current knowledge, the evolution of the Universe, and the kinds of objects and phenomena it contains. The site also discusses how scientists know what they know, what mysteries remain, and how they might one day find the answers to these questions.
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14. Stardust: be a spacecraft engineer
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1997 Grade(s): 8 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 018946
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for grades 8 to 12 by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), contains a learning module that allows students to design a spacecraft online. The students' mission is to adapt the STARDUST spacecraft so it can protect the International Space Station from orbital space debris.
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15. Materials by design
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1996 Grade(s): 9 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 010887
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, designed for students in grades 9 to postsecondary, provides an overview of the technologies involved in materials science. Many of the modern materials used today such as ceramics and glasses, semiconductors, and polymers are described.
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16. Virtual skies
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 027638
    This web site, developed by NASA for grades 9-12, provides an introduction to aviation studies. Topics include: aircraft and airport design and function; air traffic management; and flight communications.
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17. Collaborative decision making: NASA's deep impact mission
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): 7 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 027878
    This web site contains a downloadable lesson plan that helps students in grades 7-12 hone their collaborative decision-making skills by working on issues related to NASA's Deep Impact mission. The lesson mimics the decision process used by the NASA design team during the planning stage of the mission, and is intended to cover several weeks of class time.
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18. How can you sail in outer space?
    Date: 2004 Grade(s): 5 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 101321
    Can a spaceship save on fuel by sailing in space? This riddle asks students how such a feat could be accomplished. A paragraph and video clip on a clue page sum up two girls' investigation into one possible solution.
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19. exploreMarsnow.org: interactive Mars habitat
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): 3 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 027588
    This web site shows how it might be feasible for a manned expedition to live on Mars. The habitat is designed by Nexterra, a nonprofit organization devoted to promoting a manned mission to Mars by 2015.
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20. Aerospace online section of NASA Quest
    Date: 2004 Grade(s): 4 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 030320
    This Internet site allows users to search for and learn about the science and technology related to aerospace science. It is part of NASA QUEST, an educational web site that contains a variety of online resources aimed at introducing students to NASA scientists and the national space program.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)