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Below you will find some Internet Resources that could
further extend your visit to The Lower Hudson Valley Challenger Center.
The resources range in level from kindergarten
through college. Whether you are writing a research paper,
planning a lesson, or are just plain curious, you are sure to find a link
to suit your needs. Visit each site to see if it will be of help to you,
your family, or your students.
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Dinosaurs, Fossils & Minerals!
Handle ancient treasures and touch a piece of Jurassic history!
Dinosaurs Rock™ brings out the scientist in you. Become a
junior paleontologist digging for fossil treasures
and experience the wonder of life over 65 million years ago.
www.dinosaursrock.com
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FREE Paper Models!
Make YOUR OWN paper models just like the paper models in our center!
Construct a Spacecraft or Lunar Lander to Call Your Own!
Great for the novice or the expert,
these paper models are ready to print out and assemble.
freepapermodels
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Tribute to Columbia Astronauts
by Alan Sorensen
"Free"
Words and Music
by Alan J. Sorensen
(c) 2003. All rights reserved.
To listen to this song, you will need to download
Windows Media Player
or
QuickTime Player
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Lesson Plans, Guides and Activities
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The Rockland Teachers’ Center Institute. A link between the schools, the home, and the community.
www.rockteach.org
Teachers can use Landsat images for lessons in any number of environmental lessons.
Access the teachers kit at:
ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov
An online set of Global System Science Guides for HS teachers is available at:
www.lhs.berkeley.edu
For more information about the Global System Science guides. e-mail the
GSS director Alan Gould at:
agould@uclink4.berkeley.edu
NASA's Genesis Mission website features activity pieces that bring student inquiry
into a NASA mission to an elementary classroom. An updated coloring sheet, mission
mobile and spacecraft model has been posted on:
www.genesismission.org
Astro-Venture allows students in grades 5-8 to role-play NASA occupations as they
search for and build a planet with the necessary characteristics for human life.
www.astroventure.arc.nasa.gov
Apple Computer has a space science resource website that includes lesson plans,
curriculum and QuickTime movies.
ali.apple.com/space
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NASA Links
Walk your students through NASA's cleanest room via an electronic field trip.
www.genesismission.org
NASA Goddard has produced the video "Our Home-Earth from Space" This High School video
is available as QuickTime files at:
education.gsfc.nasa.gov
Journey to Mars' an article in Multimedia Schools uses NASA Mars Quest to teach students
how to do authentic research.
www.infotoday.com
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory is building an educator database of those educators who have
requested the CD-ROM Ocean Planet. Winds of Change or its educator's package. Interested
teachers should e-mail Tom Nolan at:
Thomas.E.Nolan@jpl.nasa.gov
NASA's 42 most commercialized products are featured in Spinoff. Read the publication on
line at:
www.nctn.nq.nasa.gov
The 2000 edition of the brochure "How to Access Information on NASA's Education Program,
Materials, and Services" is available on:
spacelink.nasa.gov
National Science Teachers Association has many pages of interest for all levels of
science teaching. More information can be found at:
www.NSTA.org
A telescope in education, hands on, interactive education program is sponsored by NASA's JPL.
For more information visit the web page at:
tie.jpl.nasa.gov/
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For more information about the programs offered at The Lower Hudson Valley Challenger Center,
contact the director at 845-357-3416 or e-mail at: director@lhvcc.com
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E-mail inquiries or comments to director@lhvcc.com or Mail to
Lower Hudson Valley Challenger Learning Center
225 Route 59, Airmont, New York 10901
Tel. (845) 357-3416
Copyright © 2004. All Rights Reserved.
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