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Resources

Web resources are plentiful and at the tip of your Google.   We will link to  favorites chosen by MAPS members.  We might call it the top ten, but who wants to limit the page to just ten.  Members are invited to submit their favorite sites so that all in our community may benefit.  This site is an ongoing construction project.  Links will change over time with updates from members.  Thanks for your submissions below.

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Kinesthetic Astronomy - Link suggested by Mike Smith (Lancaster)

 

   

Kinesthetic Astronomy Lesson Plans
Be prepared to register you name and e-mail address           

Kinesthetic Astronomy
Activity Guide-sheets

Astronomy from the Ground Up provides informal science educators at nature centers, science centers, and natural history museums with new ways to communicate the excitement of modern astronomy.  Mike Smith (North Museum, Lancaster PA) recently attended workshops that addressed Kinesthetic activities to demonstrate celestial concepts.

ASTRONOMY UPDATES

From Jim Kaler and the Great Lakes Planetarium Association

 

   

Stars
Created by Jim Kaler
Prof. Emeritus of Astronomy
University of Illinois
Frequently invited guest speaker for MAPS

   
   
   

The AER is supported with the assistance of the National Optical astronomy Observatory and NASA.
   
 

Singing Science Records

   
 
   

COOL COSMOS  -Downloadable Movie Clips -
Very adaptable to Planetarium Presentations

   
 
 

NASA Quest

I believe some of these are screen shots of the presentation put together at the New Jersey State Museum some 20 years back for Follow the Drinking Gourd.

   
   
   

International Planetarium Society
Resource Page
   
   
   

 

Thanks to Mike Smith: North Planetarium in Lancaster PA. for sharing the Kinesthetic Astronomy Link
Thanks much for the NASA Quest and Cool Cosmos  web links!  Recommended by Planetarium Director Ruth List, Pennsylvania.
Thanks much to board Director Kevin Conod, New Jersey,  for the Singing Science Records link !


Last Updated June 7, 2007