Astronomy
I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don't know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy.
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
Astronomy websites:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html - NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/ - Canadian Space Agency Website
http://apps.exploratorium.edu/10cool/index.php?cmd=browse&category=3
http://www.esa.int/ESA - European Space agency Website
http://www.nasa.gov/ - NASA’s website
http://arxiv.org/archive/astro-ph - Astrophysics pre-print server where papers are posted before they are peer reviewed and published. Not that the science on these pages is necessarily understandable to 9 and 10 students but it could be part of a discussion as how science actually happens.
http://www.uvic.ca/science/physics/ - Physics and Astronomy website at UVic, students could get to know local scientists!
http://www.astro.uvic.ca/ - UVic Astronomy website
http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/ - Canada-France-Hawaii telescope page
http://www.stsci.edu/portal/ - Essentially the Hubble Space telescope page
http://www.nrao.edu/ - National Radio Astronomy Observatory page
http://www.astro.uvic.ca/c4/index.html - The Canadian Computational Cosmology Collaboration
http://weather.gc.ca/astro/index_e.html - Environment Canada site with weather info specific to astronomical observations
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question20.html - An explanation of false colour images, which are all those pretty pictures that you see in astronomy calendars
http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/ast121/lectures/lec02.html andhttps://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/History_of_astronomy.html- Two sites on the history of astronomy
http://www.biography.com/people/isaac-newton-9422656#synopsis,http://www.biography.com/people/albert-einstein-9285408,http://kepler.nasa.gov/Mission/JohannesKepler/,http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/brahe.html,http://www.biography.com/people/galileo-9305220, http://galileo.rice.edu/,http://www.biography.com/people/nicolaus-copernicus-9256984 - Websites about famous astronomers
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html - NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/ - Canadian Space Agency Website
http://apps.exploratorium.edu/10cool/index.php?cmd=browse&category=3
http://www.esa.int/ESA - European Space agency Website
http://www.nasa.gov/ - NASA’s website
http://arxiv.org/archive/astro-ph - Astrophysics pre-print server where papers are posted before they are peer reviewed and published. Not that the science on these pages is necessarily understandable to 9 and 10 students but it could be part of a discussion as how science actually happens.
http://www.uvic.ca/science/physics/ - Physics and Astronomy website at UVic, students could get to know local scientists!
http://www.astro.uvic.ca/ - UVic Astronomy website
http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/ - Canada-France-Hawaii telescope page
http://www.stsci.edu/portal/ - Essentially the Hubble Space telescope page
http://www.nrao.edu/ - National Radio Astronomy Observatory page
http://www.astro.uvic.ca/c4/index.html - The Canadian Computational Cosmology Collaboration
http://weather.gc.ca/astro/index_e.html - Environment Canada site with weather info specific to astronomical observations
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question20.html - An explanation of false colour images, which are all those pretty pictures that you see in astronomy calendars
http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/ast121/lectures/lec02.html andhttps://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/History_of_astronomy.html- Two sites on the history of astronomy
http://www.biography.com/people/isaac-newton-9422656#synopsis,http://www.biography.com/people/albert-einstein-9285408,http://kepler.nasa.gov/Mission/JohannesKepler/,http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/brahe.html,http://www.biography.com/people/galileo-9305220, http://galileo.rice.edu/,http://www.biography.com/people/nicolaus-copernicus-9256984 - Websites about famous astronomers