NASA Online Educational Resources

NASA places a strong emphasis on supporting science and technical education. The agency has developed programs such as NASA Spacelink to perform outreach to the educational community.

Online Educational Resources is a collection of Internet sources at NASA and affiliated organizations of interest to the education community. Additions to this collection may be submitted to the curator. Your comments or suggestions are welcome.

See also NASA * Hot Topics * for topics of public interest.

Educational Resources

Atlas of Mars / Ames /

-- Browsable, scrollable photoatlas of the planet

Catalog of NASA Earth and Space Science CD-ROMS / Goddard /

-- Descriptions and ordering information for discs available from the NSSDC

CEA Educational Outreach Page / U. Cal. Berkeley /

-- Educational services from the Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics

Exploration in Education / STScI /

-- Electronic picture books

Global Quest / Ames /

-- NASA K-12 Internet Initiative resource list

High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) K-12 Program / Langley /

-- A pilot program to enhance science and mathematics curricula

HPCC program's educational resources listing

-- Extensive list of both NASA and non-NASA online resources

HPCC program K-12 activities at Lewis Research Center

-- K-12 educational resources via NASA Lewis

INSPIRE: Interactive NASA Space Physics Ionosphere Radio Experiments

-- Project for high schools to observe and study naturally-occurring VLF radio emissions

The JASON Project

-- Interactive expeditions to remote parts of the world via the network with live participation by students around the world

JPL Educator's Guides (directory)

-- See index.

NASA Programs for Individuals

-- Information on educational programs at NASA for students and faculty members

NASA SpaceLink

-- A NASA-wide interactive information service geared to the educational community

Orbital Settlements: Space for the Rest of Us

-- Discussions about space colonies, colony design contests, etc.

Public Use of Remote Sensing Data

-- Access to various remote sensing educational and public use projects

SAREX: The Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment

-- Space Shuttle astronauts in communications with students from orbit

SeaWIFS: Studying Ocean Color from Space / Goddard /

-- Teacher's Guide with Activities (grades 9-10)

Space Science Education Page / Goddard /

-- Space Science topics from GSFC's Space Sciences Division

Space Telescope Science Institute's Education Page / STScI /

-- Hubble Space Telescope images and educational information

Star Child Project / Goddard /

-- Astronomy resource from Goddard's LHEA

Audio-Visual Resources

• Astronomical movies and animation from the Space Telescope Science Institute
• NASA JSC's Image Science Divisions' Digital Image Collection
  -- Press Release and Earth Observation images
• NSSDC Photo Gallery [images]
  -- Space Science-related JPEG images

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