Planets and Moons

Planets (general)

• Learn about the planets in our solary system and discover your age and weight on each! (elementary and middle school)
  http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/Astro-Matic_3000.html
   
• Tour the Solar System:  (Interactive site from PBS) With one click, you can visit Saturn, Venus, or the other planets and then spin and explore them in three dimensions.  The interface uses NASA calculations to precisely position all celestial bodies.  Click the play button at the bottom of the screen to watch the positions of the planets and moon changes as time passes.

 Earth

•  Click here to watch a beautiful slide show of the Earth from space.
   
• 10 Things You Never Knew About Earth (interesting slideshow):  http://ims.ivv.nasa.gov/externalflash/10_things_slideshow/10things_flash_index.html

Earth's moon

• NASA's Lunar Nautics Educator Guide, designed for middle school students, has 40 activities.  Go to http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/Lunar_Nautics_Designing_a_Mission.html to learn more and to download the educator's guide and student book. 
  See a webcast explaining this program at http://msvictor3.msfc.nasa.gov/STREAMING/ACCORDENT/ERC/102708/rnh.htm.
   
• In Moonbase Alpha, you assume the exciting role of an astronaut working to further human expansion and research. Returning from a research expedition, you witness a meteorite impact that cripples the life support capability of the settlement. With precious minutes ticking away, you and your team must repair and replace equipment in order to restore the oxygen production to the settlement. 
  Visit http://store.steampowered.com/app/39000/ to learn more about NASA's Moonbase Alpha and download the game.

 Other

• exoExplorer is a free Windows application being developed by Tom Morris of planetarybiology.com and Fullerton College. Its goal is to help astronomers, astrobiologists and astronomy enthusiasts visualize exoplanet environments.  Read a review of exoExplorer at http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/create-explore-alien-planets-exoexplorer/.