Astronomy Websites for Schools If link does not open please copy the URL and paste into the address bar of your browser and hit Enter. Armagh Observatory http://www.arm.ac.uk Armagh Planetarium http://www.armaghplanet.com UNAWE International http://www.unawe.org/ UNAWE UK http://uk.unawe.org/ http://www.unawe.org/resources/edu UNAWE Educational Material cation/ UNAWE Activity Sheets - upcoming area of http://www.unawe.org/resources/act website - may not be live yet ivities/ http://star.arm.ac.uk/~lmk/Armagh- Our Creativity video Observatory-CreativityNI.mp4 Universe in a box activity book, don’t forget zip http://www.unawe.org/resources/edu cation/Universe_in_Box_activityboo file has the images to use k/ Kepler/NASA information - exoplanet counter in http://kepler.nasa.gov/education/ gold bar http://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/features/st BBC Stargazing LIVE argazing/star-guides.shtml Armagh Observatory FETTU Posters http://star.arm.ac.uk/fettu/ http://sciencenetlinks.com/media/fil Moon phase worksheet er/2011/10/14/moon_worksheet.html http://www.enchantedlearning.com/c Paper plate resources rafts/stars/ ESA for younger kids: follow Paxi http://www.esa.int/esaKIDSen/Lifei nSpace.html ESA Materials – online http://www.esa.int/Education http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Lesso ESA Education ns_online/index.html http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/news/w NASA Mars Rover Curiosity: latest info hatsnew/ http://www.daniellesplace.com/html/ UFO paper bowl craft for kids outer-space- crafts.html#paperplateufo Heavens Above, configure your location "From Database" on page that opens and save as your http://www.heavens-above.com home location Beautiful time Lapse of ISS journey over Earth http://vimeo.com/61487989 EU-UNAWE UK Page 1 of 7 http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/aro Views from the International Space Station (ISS) und-the-world-in-90-minutes/ http://www.iau.org/public/constellati IAU Origin of the Constellations ons/ http://www.jodrellbank.manchester.a Details of the night sky each month c.uk/astronomy/nightsky/nskyaug12. html http://uk.eu- Send your school message into space in 2013!!! unawe.org/updates/gathering/ ASTROEDU peer-reviewed astronomy education http://astroedu.iau.org/ activities Jocelyn Bell Burnell and John Stewart Bell are http://www.jurysinns.com/hotels/bel fast/unsung-heroes featured on the 'Unsung Heroes of Belfast' list http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkid NASA Kids s/kidsclub/flash/index.html http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ Keep up with Kepler discoveries with NASA kepler/main/index.html http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree NASA Picture of the Day index .html http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepi NASA Picture of the Day archive x.html http://www.unawe.org/activity/eu- UNAWE DIY Solar System, icosahedrons unawe1328/ http://education.scholastic.co.uk/sea Scholastic, buy books or download very useful rch/search?age_type=&log=t&now=qu worksheets ery&search%5Bquery%5D=space&sea rch%5Bsection_id%5D= Irish Astronomical Association http://irishastro.org.uk/ Astronomy Ireland http://astronomy.ie/ http://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/alert Aurora alerts to your email s http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/tv/starg BBC Universe Through Time poster azinglive/sgl_universe_through_time. pdf http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse.h Eclipse table – Sun and Moon tml Hubble Space Telescope Gallery http://hubblesite.org Nine Planets, general audience information http://nineplanets.org http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary Planet factsheet from NASA /factsheet http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ NASA young astronomers StarChild/StarChild.html http://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/A What is Aboriginal Astronomy? boriginalAstronomy/whatis.htm http://www.dcalni.gov.uk/quick_links- DCAL NI Learning Strategy dcal_learning_strategy EU-UNAWE UK Page 2 of 7 Discover Science and Engineering (DSE) http://www.discover-science.ie/ http://www.discover- DSE links with ESERO science.ie/programmes-and- audiences/esero-and-dse http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/index. Mars Rover Landing Video php?id=1090 http://star.arm.ac.uk/~mdp/IYA- beyond/news/universe- Nursery Age Star Movie – slow to download awareness/nursery-astronomy- mov.mov http://tools.atozteacherstuff.com/w Word search generators ord-search-maker/wordsearch.php http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/ BBC’s Explore the solar system solarsystem http://www.childrensuniversity.manc Children's University Manchester - Astronomy hester.ac.uk/interactives/science/ea rthandbeyond/ http://science.nasa.gov/science- Near Mars Comet October 2014 news/science-at- nasa/2013/26mar_marscomet/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/teacher- network/2012/sep/28/teaching-education-ideas- Ideas from other countries from-other- countries?newsfeed=true&utm_source=buffer&bu ffer_share=77254 Stellarium, the sky at your location - downloadable http://www.stellarium.org Royal Astronomical Society http://www.ras.org.uk/ Teacher's Pet (currently £12 per year http://activities.tpet.co.uk/#/Searc subscription) h/space http://aer.aas.org/resource/1/aersc Music inspired by Astronomy z/v11/i1/p010303_s1?view=fulltext http://dingo.care2.com/cards/flash/ Monty Python Galaxy Song 5409/galaxy.swf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocent Geogentric explanation ric_model http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_eclips Solar eclipses visible from UK to 2090 es_visible_from_the_United_Kingdom_AD_1000– 2090 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b BBC Sky at night 006mk7h http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b BBC Moore Marathon 006mk7h/clips http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p Plough – cultural stories 00cydkv http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p Orion – stars in the constellation 00fd2qx http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete ch/article-2155140/Transit-Venus- Transit of Venus in June 2012 2012-Spectacular-seen-time- 2117.html?ito=feeds-newsxml http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete ch/article-2156273/Amazing-new- Pictures from just after Big Bang pictures-moments-following-Big- Bang.html EU-UNAWE UK Page 3 of 7 http://www.gresham.ac.uk/professor More advanced lectures for parents and teachers s-and-speakers/professor-ian- morison National STEM Centre – you may have to register http://www.nationalstemcentre.org.u k/elibrary/resource/1922/birth-of- free the-solar-system http://www.playbackschools.org.uk/programme/3 STEM Centre, mass, gravity etc. 020/ks2-science-forces-mass-weight-and-gravity http://www.sciencedaily.com/release Science News Daily: Life from space? s/2012/09/120924144751.htm http://www.sheisanastronomer.org/in Women in Astronomy - from the past dex.php/history http://www.sheisanastronomer.org/in Women in Astronomy - modern Day dex.php/profiles http://www.space.com/16332-milky- Black Hole event 2013 and other videos way-black-hole-eats-gas-cloud- coming-2013-video.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereal Constellations and Astrology etc. _and_tropical_astrology FORA.tv a conference channel with over 100 http://fora.tv/search_video?q=astro astronomy videos nomy http://science.howstuffworks.com/e Gravity question and video nvironmental/earth/geophysics/ques tion232.htm http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multime NASA Trading Cards dia/downloads/SSE_trading_card.pd f http://star.arm.ac.uk/annrep/annrep Armagh Observatory Annual Report 2012/annrep2012_small.pdf http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/ BBC Scientists - Galileo solarsystem/scientists/galileo_galilei #p006hq3n http://spaceinvideos.esa.int/Videos/ 2013/08/Did_you_know_How_often ESA videos _do_astronauts_wash_their_clothes _in_space CLEAPSS H&S etc. use your UK school’s http://www.cleapss.org.uk/ L198 Earth in Space KS2 and safe membership password observing of Sun PS17 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article- 2156466/Meteor-carved-30-mile-crater-Mars- Mars crater reveals-buried-layers-carved-ancient-water- flows.html Posters http://www.daydreameducation.co.uk A day in the life of European Southern http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/ Observatory ESO 50years/webcast.html http://www.goodsitesforkids.org/Ast “Good sites for Kids” ronomy.htm http://www.guardian.co.uk/teacher- International Projects network/2012/sep/24/international- collaboration-curriculum-learning/print International Astronomical Union (IAU) Defining http://www.iau.org/public/place_in_c our place in the cosmos osmos/ Met Office weather conditions for observing http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/ EU-UNAWE UK Page 4 of 7 http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitz For real?!! report/2013/02/house-science-committee- questions-existence-of-meteors.html http://www.so.stfc.ac.uk/publications STFC – download or order materials /publorderform.aspx#PSA STFC Public Engagement http://www.stfc.ac.uk/1360.aspx http://www.teachitprimary.co.uk/ind Teachit Primary UK (can do free registration) ex.asp?CurrMenu=1405 http://www.youtube.com/SVAstrono Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures myLectures/ http://science.nasa.gov/science- Comet ISON news/science-at- nasa/2013/18jan_cometison/ http://nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=125 “Babies are born scientists” 575&org=NSF&from=news&utm_source=buffer&b uffer_share=3e565 Were the Aboriginal Australians the world's first http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/rnor astronomers? ris/papers/_n217.pdf th http://www.worldspaceweek.org/wsw World Space Week 4-10 October /index.php http://www.clearskyinstitute.com/xe XEphem – Astronomical software phem/ http://www.rmg.co.uk/schools/royal- KS2 Resources from Royal Obs Greenwich observatory/classroom- resources/key-stage-2/ http://www.rte.ie/news/special- RTE interview Irish Scientists at CERN reports/2013/0718/463278-irish- scientists-at-cerns-cutting-edge/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz Children chatting with an ISS