Select NASA Links

NASA Space Grant at The Pennsylvania State University. The Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium (PSGC) is part of a national network of Space Grant programs in every state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. It is funded and managed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The National Space Grant Program seeks to increase the understanding, development, and utilization of space resources; encourage interdisciplinary training, research, and public service in space-related areas; recruit and train professionals for careers in space-related areas; promote a strong science, mathematics, and technology educational base from elementary through university levels; and promote opportunities for underrepresented groups.

The Mid-Atlantic Region Space Science Broker is a resource to help navigate your next educational event. Let us help you bring scientists and educators together to convey NASA space science discoveries to your students and public audience.

The easiest way to search within NASA is to use any search enging on the net. Here is a suggested format:
NASA+(a key word or two about what you are looking for)+(a qualifier)

Space Educators Handbook a variety of educational resources available about NASA Science. A suggestion is to look at the index for this page.

Practical Uses of Math And Science Home Page: PUMAS (poo' · mas) -- is a collection of one page examples of how math and science topics taught in K-12 classes can be used in interesting settings, including everyday life. The examples are written primarily by scientists and engineers, and are available to teachers, students, and other interested parties via the PUMAS Web Site.

NASA Observatorium is a public access site for Earth and space data. We have pictures of the Earth, planets, stars, and other cool stuff, as well as the stories behind those images.

Space Flight
Informaton on Shuttle, Internation Space Station and Astronauts

The Science@NASA site is perfect for the lastest news for both students and teachers. Teachers will find a daily teacher page with activities.

OSF Space Hotlist (Office of Space Flight) is a site that will link you to sites that contain the most frequently requested information.

Space Exploration Systems is a division of NASA working on humans and robots exploring beyond the earth.

Scientists use Landsat satellites to gather remotely sensed images of the land surface and surrounding coastal regions for global change research, regional environmental change studies and other civil and commercial purposes. To see current public domain images click here.

Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) is a worldwide network of students, teachers, and scientists working together to study and understand the global environment. Students and teachers from over 6,000 schools in more than 70 countries are working with research scientists to learn more about our planet.

NASA's Earth Observatory, where you can monitor regional and global changes on our planet almost as they happen.

Discover Earth is a NASA sponsored project for pre-college teachers that focuses on key issues of global climate change.

Echo The Bat: The IMAGERS (Interactive Multimedia Adventures for Grade school Education using Remote Sensing) project is developed upon a framework which allows for the incorporation of new content, geographic location, and storyline using satellite imagery as the foundation.

Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation & Analysis is a tutorial approach to learning about the role of space science and technology in monitoring the Earth's surface and atmosphere - sponsored by the Applied Information Science Branch(Code 935) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Geomorphology from Space - The bulk of the images at this site are those taken by the Multispectral Scanner (MSS) on Landsats 1, 2, and 3, the Return Beam Vidicon (RBV) on Landsat 3, and the Thematic Mapper (TM) on Landsats 4 and 5. The site is a gallery of space imagery consisting of 237 Plates, each treating some geographic region where a particular landform theme is exemplified. The arrangement of the gallery is by geomorphic theme: (1) Tectonic (Structural), (2) Volcanic, (3) Fluvial, (4) Delta, (5) Coastal, (6) Karst and Lakes, (7) Eolian, (8) Glacial, and (9) Planetary Landforms. This is one of the most impressive collection of remote sensing images on the web today. Commentary, photographs, locator maps, and sometimes a geologic map accompany each plate.

Studying The Earth's Environment From Space: This site is organized in a modular style based on Earth science topics studied by scientists with environmental data collected by satellites. Currently, four modules are being developed.

The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory has Lesson Plans and Activities on line to help explain the Sun and how it interacts with the Earth. You can find more information in SOHO Explore !!!. If your students have questions about the sun they can look most of them up under Dr. SOHO's FAQ or even link to ask questions of the scientists.

There are several good resources on the net for solar activities to use in the classroom. You may want to try SOHO and the Student Observation Network.

If you would like to see what the Sun looked liked this morning in different wavelengths click on Solar images at SDAC. For information on how to participate in Sun-Earth Day.

With the advent of radios, RAM, and rockets, scientists found that Earth's environment extends nearly a million miles into space, and the Sun brings us far more than warming daylight. For more go to "Mission to Geospace".

Do you think you saw an aurora? Were there wavey bright colors in the sky? Dr. Nicky Fox at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center has set up a page to look at data from these phenomena. ISTP Sun Earth Connections Events has data from many spacecraft including images and movies.

Amazing Space is a set of web-based activities primarily designed for classroom use, but made available for all to enjoy. Current activities include: Comets, The Truth about Black Holes, Galaxies Galore, Star Light-Star Bright, Solar System Trading Cards, Hubble Deep Field Academy, Astronaut Challenge or look at a brief history of telescopes from Galileo to the Hubble Space Telescope.

StarChild: A learning center for young astronomers is an award winning site for the very young astronomer designed by teachers in concert with the High Energy Astrophysics Branch at Goddard Space Flight Center.

Imagine The Universe : This site is intended for students age 14 and up, and for anyone interested in learning about our universe. If you're looking for grade school level astronomy information, please see the StarChild web site. Enjoy your cosmic journey!

Aerodynamics of Flight This volume is a result of several semesters of the author's teaching of an introductory course in aerodynamics to apprentices and technicians at the NASA Langley Research Center. The problem faced was to provide more than a layman's treatment of the subject but not the detail as taught in many individual courses on the college level. The result is a highly qualitative, illustrated set of notes which, through the teaching process, was modified to fulfill the objectives better.

Possible Math Links
Math teachers - remember that NASA does math as it applies to science.

The Satellite Situation Report is a listing of those satellites (objects) currently in orbit and those which have previously orbited the Earth. Some objects are too small or too far from the Earth's surface to be detected; therefore, the Satellite Situation Report does not include all manmade objects orbiting the Earth.

The Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere is a complete curriculum on the interaction of the Earth in space. Even though the author states that this is a physics program there are many links to the Earth Sciences. There are many real-life connections to the use of mathematics as well as the history behind the mathematics.

NASA's Planetary Photojournal: This service, developed as a collaboration between NASA's Planetary Data System Imaging Node, the Solar System Visualization Project,and JPL's Media Relations Office, is designed to provide you with easy access to the publicly released images from various Solar System exploration programs. The system database is currently populated with approximately 1830 images; more are being added every day.

The goal of NASA's Digital Learning Network is to enhance NASA's capability to deliver unique content by linking customers with one or more NASA Centers in an integrated fashion. This coordinated digital learning network will let us better leverage NASA's unique content, facilities, and personnel so that we can provide students and educators at the precollege and university levels across the Nation and around the world with a unique experience. Learners at all levels have the opportunity to interact directly with NASA scientists to gain a new appreciation for the importance of science and education.

Computers for Education: NASA is actively participating in the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act. This act allows federal agencies to transfer research equipment to education institutions for the conduct of technical and scientific education and research activities. Eligible Schools: First through twelfth grade, public and private, home schools and two year colleges. What is Research Equipment: pumps and compressors, valves, communication equipment, electrical and electronic equipment, instruments and laboratory equipment computers, monitors, printers, modems and software.

At the Center for Educational Technologies^® we provide solutions—solutions that enhance your lifelong learning and teaching. Using state-of-the-art educational technology, we create professional development programs, online curriculum, and various other tools and resources. We’ve honed our skills through years of providing service to NASA, the U.S. Department of Education, and the National Science Foundation. Since our founding in 1994, we’ve been located at Wheeling Jesuit University in Wheeling, WV, where we are also home to the NASA-sponsored Classroom of the Future.

The Learning Technologies Channel : At Quest our mission is to provide support and services for schools, teachers and students to fully utilize the Internet, and its underlying information technologies, as a basic tool for learning.
The NASA Quest Project's Learning Technologies Channel is located at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, California. LTC is an interactive source for students and educators to participate in science and outreach programs designed to bring live multimedia Internet experiences to the classroom.

Link to NASA CONNECT to give your students examples of how mathematics and science are used everyday by NASA aeronautical engineers and scientists.

A Spinoff is a product that has its beginnings in the space program. This is a good site for Technology Teachers. (We are sorry to say that a certain popular powdered drink from the 60's was not developed by NASA)

We are pleased to announce that the NASA History Office now has an on-line version of the Space Handbook: Astronautics and its Applications. This 1959 publication was a staff report of the Congressional Select Committe on Astronautics and Space Exploration. An interesting historical document, this Handbook includes much information about astronomy and astronautics that we now know to be incorrect. Nevertheless, this document provides a snapshot of the beginning of the space era.