Astronomy sites

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From: Jo Falcon (jofalcon@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 16 2003 - 10:04:29 PST 

Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 10:04:29 -0800 (PST)
From: Jo Falcon <jofalcon@exploratorium.edu>
Subject: Astronomy sites
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0301160953090.10096-100000@isaac>

Scott Contini asked for

> ...some great astronomy websites for 8th
> grade level students. They are trying to do research
> on current astronomy discoveries and planet missions.
>
> Has anyone found some websites that are just TOO GOOD
> to miss???

Gilles Poitras, our former Director of Information Services, put together
a good starting point:

        http://www.exploratorium.edu/ls/infosources/AstronomyInfo.html

This is one of a series intended to bring together the best basic sources,
evaluated for quality, in as many disciplines of science as he had time to
research before he was laid off. All follow the same pattern, so once you
get familiar with it you'll find things fast whatever the topic. All
include current news sources, official agency pages (in this case, NASA,
NOAA, and the equivalent pages of other countries), and local San
Francisco references, as well as the obvious stuff like educator
resources, maps, glossaries, and directories of publications on the topic.

The main index for all these resources is at

        http://www.exploratorium.edu/ls/infosources/

Hope it helps --

Jo Falcon, MLIS
The Exploratorium Learning Studio
415 561-0343
"We unscrew the inscrutable."

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