Resources
Biographies
Dawn Classrooms
Dawn Dictionary
Education
Find a Meterorite

Web Sites

Additional Activity Resources
http://www.figurethis.org/challenges/c61/challenge.htm
This activity asks students to determine if the Statue of Liberty's nose is out of proportion to her body size. The activity, from the Figure This! list of 80 math challenges, illustrates how to use similarity and scaling to design HO gauge model train layouts and analyze the size of characters in Gulliver's Travels.

http://www.genesismission.org/educate/scimodule/DestinationL1/DL1_PDFs/3_science/TGkeplerslaws2.pdf
Teacher guide with science activities on Kepler’s laws of planetary motion from the Genesis module Destination L1.

Additional Resources about Telescopes
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Things/telescope.html
The Telescope

http://memory.loc.gov/
American Memory (Library of Congress)

http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/psc/hist2.html
Excellent history of early telescope design

Additional Resources about Early Astronomers

http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/psc/hist2.html
Astronomers, instruments, and discoveries

http://www.astropa.unipa.it/versione_inglese/Hystory/BODE'S_LAW.htm
Bode’s Law and the Discovery of Ceres

http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Science/Copernicus.htm
Biography of Nicolas Copernicus

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/
A useful resource for biographical and historical information. After accessing the site, click on the Astronomy link. Then type in a scientist’s name. The biography contains links to relevant historical information.

http://www.historychannel.com/
HistoryChannel.Com

Additional Resources about Asteroids

http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/info/OldDesDoc.html
Asteroid nomenclature history

http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/MPDiscsAlpha.html
An alphabetized list of their discoverers and the total number of asteroids each of them discovered

http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/NumberedMPs00001.html
A list of the first 5000 asteroids in the order of their discovery

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/images/vesta.html
Hubble Space Telescope and Keck images of Vesta

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/asteroidfact.html
Asteroid Fact Sheet

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/asteroidfact.html
Asteroid Fact Sheet

http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sb_elem.html#LEGEND
A source for finding absolute magnitudes of asteroids

http://www.astro.uu.se/planet/asteroid/shapes/
Interactive showing examples of irregular-shaped asteriods in 3-D.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/solar_system/features/ceres.html
Texas-Sized Space Rock (Ceres)

http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/
Smithsonian Education

Additional Resources about Missions to Asteroids

http://www.muses-c.isas.ac.jp/
Missions to Asteroids: MUSES-C

http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov
Missions to Asteroids: Dawn

http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/asteroids-all.cfm
Missions to Asteroids: Galileo

http://near.jhuapl.edu/
Missions to Asteroids: NEAR

http://nmp.jpl.nasa.gov/ds1/
Missions to Asteroids: Deep Space 1

Additional Resources about Brightness and Albedo

For information about the history of the brightness scale:
http://www.astro-tom.com/technical_data/magnitude_scale.htm

http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~teacha/130_manual/node30.htm

http://www.geocities.com/catskills_astronomy_club/darksky.htm
Why dark nights are best for viewing celestial objects

http://www.geocities.com/zlipanov/asteroid_intro/asteroid_intro.html
Excellent source of information regarding size and albedo of asteroids

http://www.solarviews.com/eng/asteroid.htm
This site has some albedo and size data for selected asteroids

Additional Resources about Early Photographic Techniques

http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~afs5z/photography.html
Information about early photographic techniques

Additional Resources about Communication

http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/high_power/pdf/STCommQuesListen.pdf
Decision Making: Communicating, Questioning, and Listening, a student text available through NASA’s Deep Impact mission, offers some helpful guidelines for public speaking.


Print Resources

Billmeyer, R. & Barton, M.L. (1998). Teaching reading in the content area: If not me, then who? Aurora, CO: Mid-continent Regional Educational Laboratory.

Cousins, F.W. (1972). The solar system. New York, NY: Pica Press.

Grunn, B. (1991). The timetable of history – A horizontal linkage of people and events. Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Learner, R. (1981). Astronomy through the telescope. Van Nostrand Reinhold.

Marzano, Robert J. (2000). Transforming classroom grading. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

McSween, H.Y. (1999). Meteorites and their parent planets. Cambridge; NY: Cambridge University Press.

Peebles, C. (2000). Asteroids: A history. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Roth, G.D. (1962). The system of minor planet. Princeton, NJ: Company Inc.

Schorn, R.A. (1988). Planetary astronomy. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press.