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NASA – Hands on at Home! STEM for Students at Home!	Click here
NASA – Asteroids, Meteors and Meteorites – and more Solar System Exploration!	Click here
NASA Elementary Storybooks and STEM – Wednesday 04/01/2020 – 2:00 pm ET FREE 1-hour Webinar – Educators in Grades K-5 – Teacher Development – Must Register ahead of time! Learn how to use the storybook to introduce young learners to earth science . Participants will review the Elementary GLOBE resources and explore on-line learning. Use the inquiry inquiry based activities associated with the story to help students explore the outdoors. This webinar opportunity can be extended to earn 6 hours of Professional Development from home.	Click here
NASA – SpacePlace Game – DSN Uplink-Downlink: A DSN Game	Click here
Explore with Space Launch System activities	Click here
My NASA MYData – Volcanic Eruptions – Geology Lessons and Activities!	Click here
NASA at HOME is introducing astronaut story time from Earth. Each weekday at 4 p.m. EDT, record-breaking astronaut Christina Koch, who recently returned to our home planet after 328 days in space, will read a children’s book on Instagram Live. Follow her to enjoy:	Click here
More from NASA at Home	Click here
Help NASA Design a Robot to Dig on the MoonNASA engineers are looking for ways to improve the bucket drum design of the Moon digging robot called RASSOR, short for Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot. This portion of the robot captures regolith and keeps it from falling out, allowing it to be transported to a designated area. Upload your design ideas for a chance to win cash prizes. Audience: Design Innovators Ages 18 and Older Entry Deadline: April 20 Contact: challenges@grabcad.com	Click here
Design a Venus Rover – NASA Wants Your Help Designing a Venus Rover Concept Exploring Hell: Avoiding Obstacles on a Clockwork Rover – Must survive conditions listed below! Surface temperature: in excess of 450°C Surface pressure: 92 times that of Earth Wind speeds: 0.3 – 1.3 meters per second Due to the extreme pressure, this low wind speed feels almost like gale-force winds here on Earth Length of Venusian daytime: 116 Earth days – Hint: Venus completes one rotation in 243 Earth days — the longest day of any planet in our solar system, even longer than a whole year on Venus. … On Venus, one day-night cycle takes 117 Earth days because Venus rotates in the direction opposite of its orbital revolution around the Sun	Click here
Amateur Astronomy online resources	Click here
Amateur Astronomy Links from PBS…	Click here
NASA Is Tapping University Teams for Innovative Ideas to Enhance Its Moon to Mars Missions The 2021 Moon to Mars eXploration Systems and Habitation (M2M X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenge is an opportunity for NASA to build partnerships and tap into the ingenuity and creativity of the rising Artemis generation space explorers. This collaborative opportunity provides real-world, hands-on design, research and development opportunities for university students interested in aerospace careers while strengthening NASA’s efforts to optimize technology investments, foster innovation and facilitate technology infusion.	Click here
Old gas blob from Uranus found in vintage Voyager 2 data	Click here
Evening Sky Maps	Click here
Earth Sky – Essential Astronomy	Click here
Hello, NOVA fans! We understand that many of you may be spending more quality time at home than usual. And, as schools across the country close, fostering student learning at home is a top priority. Throughout the upcoming weeks, we’ll be sharing collections of some of our favorite NOVA films—all organized by subject to make online learning, and entertaining as easy as possible for science lovers of all ages. Astronomy-aficionados get ready: The subject of this collection is “Space & The Universe.” And starting Thursday, April 2, come back to our home planet for a collection of NOVA shows that explore what makes it such a unique and powerful place: Planet Earth.	Click here
United Launch Alliance launched the Sixth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF-6) using an Atlas V 551 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on March 26, 2020. Check it out!	Click here
What’s up in Space at Spaceweather.com	Click here
Catch up with the exploration of space with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Hubblecast videos!	Click here
NASA Hubble Space Telescope	Click here
NASA What’s Up for March 2020? ( New every month!)	Click here
Astronomy Technology Today – online magazine to feed your inner geek!	Click here
Video with all the tests for SpaceX landing their first stage rockets	Click here
What’s Up for June 2020 from NASA	Click here
Join NASA for the Launch of the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover	Click here
This link to the Smithsonian Learning Lab at Harvard has created a reference center about female astronomers such as Annie Jump Cannon and Henrietta Swan Leavitt. As part of the group of women known as the Harvard Computers, they cataloged stars and made great contributions to the field of astronomy. At the library, we are planning on curating these digital collections with resources from our own materials, such as the notebooks created by these women.	Click here
NASA eClips™ Resources support standards-based instruction by increasing STEM literacy in formal and nonformal settings. The free video segments inform and engage students, through NASA-inspired, real world connections. Three NASA eClips programs are tailored to meet the needs of students in grades 3-12. In addition, a student-produced resource has joined the NASA eClips library.	Click here

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