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Get students excited about the sky
Tap into your students' imagination and creativity by helping them to explore space using Google's tools for space education. Google offers multiple tools for students at multiple grade levels to explore the Sky, the Moon, Mars, and to more intuitively understand the scale of space and space exploration. Teachers and students will find the tools easy to use.
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Sky in Google Earth
Google Earth's new Sky feature is a good tool for teachers to teach about distant galaxies and nebulae, view constellations, learn about star lifecycles and the movements of the planets, and more. Suitable for middle-school through college. (Requires Google Earth 4.2)
Find out more about Sky.
See more Sky-view content.
Get lesson ideas for using Sky.
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Google Moon
Teach students about the historic Apollo lunar missions with Google Moon's updated panorama, audio, and imagery from NASA.
Try Google Moon.
Explore an Apollo mission field guide. |
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X PRIZE Cup 2006
Teachers can use this great 3D content to help students explore the history of spaceflight and visit the X PRIZE Cup 2006 online.
Visit Google's X PRIZE Cup 2006 webpage.
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Google Mars
Use this tool to teach students to explore elevation, infrared, and visible imagery maps of Mars made in collaboration with NASA and Arizona State University. Geared to high school students.
Try Google Mars. |
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Rocket Garden Planter
Enter an address and download a Google Earth file with scaled 3D models of rockets placed at that location. Helps students understand size of rockets relative to human scale. (Requires Google Earth)
Plant some rockets in your garden.
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Solar System Maker
Teachers can help students conceptualize the relationship of the sun to other plants by entering an address. This mapplet will then drop a solar system with the Sun centered on that location, helping students conceptualize a solar system at human scale.
Make your own solar system.
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