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Another interesting website - could be a great resource for students

PlanetQuest is an interesting website from NASA (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) with lots of interesting multimedia to address curriculum. I particularly liked their "Alien Safari" (appropriate for the Grade 6 Earth and Space Science curriculum). Continue

Added by Lisa McIntosh on November 17, 2008 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Definitions of terms relevant to BC grade 9 Earth and Space Science

Attached are definitions from the vocabulary list from the grade 9 Earth and space science curriculum. Hope you find them useful.Definitions for Grade 9.doc Continue

Added by Lisa McIntosh on November 16, 2008 at 12:34pm — No Comments

Phoenix has landed!

The Phoenix Mars Lander has successfully reached Mars to begin its three-month study of the Mars' polar region. For more information visit http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/ Continue

Added by Lisa McIntosh on May 25, 2008 at 7:24pm — No Comments

Interview with Arthur C. Clarke

Eleanor Wachtel on Writers and Company re-broadcasted an interview she conducted with Arthur C. Clarke in 2000. Their discussion covers not only his writings but landmark events in science and his views on space travel. The hour-long interview can be downloaded as a podcast and is well worth a listen. You can download the interview from the CBC's podcasting page. Continue

Added by Lisa McIntosh on March 30, 2008 at 6:17pm — No Comments

Saturn's Moon Rhea Also May Have Rings - NASA press release

"NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found evidence of material orbiting Rhea, Saturn's second largest moon. This is the first time rings may have been found around a moon. A broad debris disk and at least one ring appear to have been detected by a suite of six instruments on Cassini specifically designed to study the atmospheres and particles around Saturn and its moons." For more information on how this discovery is changing our understanding of our solar system read the… Continue

Added by Lisa McIntosh on March 12, 2008 at 2:01pm — No Comments

Resources from the February 8th Pro-D workshop

I've included my presentation in a couple of different formats - powerpoint (I apologize that some of the formatting has gone a little strange as I originally developed the presentation in Keynote), a pdf file, and a pdf file with my notes which includes the web links to the resources I used in each section (you should be able link directly from the pdf file to the web page listed). If you download the power point file you'll need to download the files in the folder as well - it contains all the… Continue

Added by Lisa McIntosh on February 11, 2008 at 10:55am — No Comments

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