Adult/General Audience

Resource Guide to the Moon for Educators

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Resource Guide to the Moon for Educators
Available from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific  read more »

Making Comets in the Classroom

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National Optical Astronomy Observatory
Comet recipe by Dennis Schatz
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/educ/docs/Comet_Recipe.pdf
http://www.noao.edu/education/crecipe.html

NASA MESSENGER mission learning module for Grades 5-8 - Lesson 8 - Comets: Bringers of Life?
http://btc.montana.edu/messenger/teachers/MEMS_CompPlanetology.php

Deep Impact Mission Education
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/deepimpact/educ/index.cfm

Make a comet representing the ingredients in a real comet. It is an exciting and relatively simple demonstration to do that leaves quite an impression on students. (MESSENGER and NOAO)  read more »

Cosmic Questions: Our Place in Space and Time

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A set of 8 activities for Grades 7-12 developed for the Cosmic Questions exhibit. The activities can be used as stand-alone without seeing the exhibit.  read more »

Universe Forum Activities for Informal Education Settings

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Structure and Evolution of the Universe Education Forum
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/seuforum/gsa/

Cosmic Poetry
Cosmic Survey
Modeling the Universe
Time Scavenger Hunt
Black Hole Game

Black Hole Interactive

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A web-based SpaceTime Lab that lets you explore how a planet and a black hole affect the space and time around them.
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/seuforum/bh_popup_spacetimelab.htm

How Big is Our Universe?

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Universe Forum
Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/seuforum/howfar/index.html

A visual exploration through space and time on the web, with a downloadable pdf booklet.
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/seuforum/howfar/index.html

Galaxy Zoo

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Galaxy Zoo and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
http://galaxyzoo.org/

GalaxyZoo is the project which harnesses the power of the internet - and your brain - to classify a million galaxies.  read more »

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