LibGuides: Grade 7 Science: Astronomy

Research Databases for LS Science

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BrainPop This link opens in a new window
Engaging learning games, animated movies, and activities. Designed with relevance, depth, and humor to encourage kids on their unique learning paths.
Britannica School This link opens in a new window
Welcome to Britannica School, a safe, up-to-date, and age-appropriate information resource for Elementary, Middle, and High School. Discover encyclopedia articles, multimedia, primary sources, games, and other learning resources that support student research and reinforce curriculum standards.
Explora Secondary This link opens in a new window Explora is EBSCO’s research interface designed specifically for students and educators. The secondary school version features relevant and reliable content and easy-to-use functionality to help high school students successfully complete their research.
Gale in Context: Middle School This link opens in a new window
Created specifically for middle school students, Gale In Context: Middle School combines the best of Gale's reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more. Categories cover a range of the most-studied topics including cultures, government, people, U.S. and world history, literature, and many more.
Infobase: Science Online This link opens in a new window Science Online offers a comprehensive overview of a broad range of scientific disciplines. Topic Centers feature specially selected content on core science disciplines to help students find a starting point for their research.
Infobase: Today's Science This link opens in a new window
Today's Science bridges the gap between the science that students learn in the classroom and the discoveries pushing the boundaries of science today. Updated weekly and containing thousands of links to a 25-year back-file, Today's Science explains important developments in biology, chemistry, the environment, space, physics, and technology. Students are provided with information in context, clearly explained and abundantly illustrated, so they can see new advances not as inexplicable wonders, but as resulting from the application of the same concepts and principles of investigation (the scientific method) that they are learning about in simpler form in the classroom.
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PowerKnowledge: Earth & Space Science This link opens in a new window PowerKnowledge Earth & Space Science is a content-driven, visually stimulating, and media-rich online science resource specifically designed for learners in grades 3 to 6.
PowerKnowledge: Life Sciences This link opens in a new window PowerKnowledge Life Science is a content-driven, visually stimulating, and media-rich online science resource specifically designed for learners in grades 3 to 6.
PowerKnowledge: Physical Science This link opens in a new window PowerKnowledge Physical Science is a content-driven, visually stimulating, and media-rich online science resource specifically designed for learners in grades 3 to 6.
Teen Health & Wellness This link opens in a new window Teen Health & Wellness provides middle and high school students with nonjudgmental, straightforward, curricular and self-help support, aligned to state, national, and provincial standards. Topics include diseases, drugs and alcohol, nutrition, mental health, suicide and bullying, green living, LGBTQ issues, and more.
World Book Online This link opens in a new window World Book Online is a suite of online research tools that includes encyclopedia articles, primary source collections, educator tools, student activities, educational games, pictures, audio, and video, complemented by current periodicals and related Web sites.

Planets

All About the Planets
From NASA Space Place
The Characteristics of the Eight Planets
From Sciencing.com. Some ads
Planets
From Britannica
What is a Planet?
From NASA

Books in the SP Library

Space Explorers by David Jefferis "Looks at current tools for space exploration, ... where future innovations in technology might be able to take us, ...[and] the scientific possibilities of sending human crews beyond the Moon, drilling on Europa, sending a nano-probe to TRAPPIST-1, and probing the dark reaches beyond Neptune"--Provided by publisher.
Call Number: 629.04 JEF
ISBN: 9780778735359
Publication Date: 2017-09-15
Space Tech by Megan Kopp "From voyaging farther into the universe than ever before to the possibility of living on Mars, technological innovations are turning former dreams into reality. Space Tech explores these ... advances ... that have transformed our understanding of the universe [and] also examines the surprising ways we already benefit from space technology, including enriched baby food and laser eye surgery"--Provided by publisher.
Call Number: 629.4 KOP
ISBN: 9780778736028
Publication Date: 2017-08-31
Space Exploration by Wil Mara Highlights careers in space exploration, describing historic events, and what might be the future of space exploration.
Call Number: 629.4 MAR
ISBN: 9780531206157
Publication Date: 2014-09-01
Destined for Space by Don Nardo; Smithsonian Institution Staff (Contribution by) "Describes the history and future of human space exploration"--Provided by publisher.
Call Number: 629.45 NAR
ISBN: 9781429675406
Publication Date: 2012-01-01

Space Technology

Basics of Space Flight
From NASA. Classes of robotic spacecraft according to the missions the spacecraft are intended to perform.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Learn about the NASA's research and design lab.
Hubble Site
Learn about new Hubble discoveries, view photographs of stars and galaxies, and find out facts about this remarkable telescope
Galileo: Journey to Jupiter
This NASA site from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory describes the journey of space probe Galileo, which explored the planet Jupiter.

The Moon

Eclipse
From BrainPop
Eclipses
From Britannica
Moon Phases
From BrainPop
Moon Phases
From NASA Space Place

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Explorations

10 of the Most Important Space Missions in History
From Popular Mechanics
ABC list of NASA missions
From NASA
Significant Milestones in Space Exploration
From Britannica
Space Exploration
Article from Britannica

Mars Missions

Chronology of Mars Exploration
Complied by NASA
Every Mission to Mars, Ever
With links to Active Missions
Mars
From Britannica. Overall information about the planet but includes a section on exploration which summarizes history of missions.
Mars 2020
From World Book Online
Mars Exploration Rover
From Britannica
Mars Exploration Rovers
From NASA

Seasons

Seasons
From BrainPop
What causes the seasons?
From NASA Space Place