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 Welcome to the Resource Page of Dave McBride Science/Learning Support 732-0723 Room 124/112 Welcome new ninth grade students. This page can become one of your best resources because I'll be posting assignments for you as soon as I get them. The assignments, their due dates and the teacher making the assignment will be highlighted. If you have a specific question, you can reach me at dmcbride@epasd.org and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Again, welcome to the High School!

Upcoming Projects for Astronomy 2010-2011

HR Diagram Plot: Due 9/23 Wikespaces Constellation Project: Due Monday, 9/27 Astronomy Unit Test: 10/6





Ok, let's see if you can guess what's in the case?



Activities: Earth Science

Helpful links for your first unit: =Astronomy=

You want stars, this web site has them...lots of them! []

So does this site []

Did you say I have to do a constellation project? You might start here! []

This is a free website that allows you to look at cool maps of the sky...try it, you'll think it's pretty cool. I do. []

[] Another free planetarium software page. Very cool! []

This is a website that has a searchable data base of pictures and descriptions of various astronomical structures and events.

[] The homepage of NASA, which will be helpful in our studies related to scientific exploration of space.

[|**http://spaceweather.com/**] **A website that covers the Sun, the Solar Wind and Auroras along with a lot of other cool stuff.** [] This is a webpage that lists the web addresses for lots of planetariums, always good sources of interesting things about space.

[] This is the home page of the Hubble Space Telescope, the greatest observatory ever built.

[] This a fairly technical but very complete web page regarding the Solar system.

[] This is a planetary website that is maintained by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

h[|ttp://www.fourmilab.ch/solar/]
 * This is a web page that allows you to view the solar system in a variety of ways for any date between 4713 B.C. and A.D. 8000.**

[] A web site designed to describe what you can see if you take the time to look up every night.

[] A website that describes the various moons of the Solar system.

[] A playground for you to explore about space.

[] ** Just a fun, educational page with access to lots of topics like gravity, the electromagnetic spectrum and lots more. ** [] A good solar system resource page, really! [] Another good solar system page.

Want to know how many other civilizations might be out there in the Cosmos? Then you need the Drake Equation. It is here: []

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