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SPACE ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS
Some useful and entertaining sites, information, games, and activities are found here...

KIDS CLUBS, NASA AND ESA

» NASA Kids Club
» ESA Kids Club

ARTS & CRAFTS

» Relative Size of the Sun, Arts & Crafts Activity
» Moon Phases a Learning Toy, Arts & Crafts
» How BIG is the Solar System, Activity, Walk a scale model
» Planet Roll Call, B&W PDF
» Day & Night, teaching activity with Microsoft Word.doc download and quiz
» Rainbow Science, , Arts & Crafts Activity with an old CD

FUN FACTS

» Sun Facts for Kids, with a printable fact sheet
» Jupiter Facts for Kids, with a printable fact sheet
» Astronomy, Our Place in Space, American Museum of Natural History
» Astronomy in the Media

VIRTUAL STARGAZING - VIRTUAL VIEWS OF THE MOON & MARS

» Virtual Stargazing with Google Sky
» Virtualy viewing Moon Watching with Google Moon
» Virtual views of Mars with Google Mars
» The Temperatures of the Planets on an old style thermometer
» Sleeping Under the Stars and Planets

VIDEOS

» The Suns Position, NASA eClip, 2 mins 19 secs
» Here Comes the Sun: Crash Course for Kids, 3 mins on YouTube
» A Solar System Song for children of all ages, 4 mins 21 Secs on YouTube
» 2 off Jupiter's Moons as seen by Cassini, twitter 21 sec clip
» StoryBots Outer Space, Planets, Sun, Moon, Earth and Stars. A Solar System Super Song. 15 mins 11 Secs on YouTube and Netflix Jr

QUIZZES

» Take the Solar System Quiz, Dorling Kindersley
» Kids Space Science
» Test Your Space Smarts Quiz!
» The Big Space Quiz, CBBC
» Earth and Space Quiz for Kids
» Space exploration quiz for Kids, National Geographic

OTHER PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES

» Sam's Page
» Eliza from New Jersey recommends: AAA State of Play

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

NEW » Use of AI in Space Education and Astronomy Education

See the Reading List for Beginners




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