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REAL Science Odyssey: Astronomy Level 1

Great site that, at no cost to you, catalogues links to videos by topic and grade: http://watchknowlearn.org

NASA Space Place: https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/kids/

This video covers some topics that were not covered in the chapter: http://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/jams/science/energy-light-sound/light.htm

The Big Band explained:https://www.esa.int/kids/en/learn/Our_Universe/Story_of_the_Universe/The_Big_Bang

NASA Kids: https://www.nasa.gov/kidsclub/index.html

NASA for K-4 educators: https://www.nasa.gov/stem/foreducators/k-12/index.html

Crash Course Astronomy Videos: https://thecrashcourse.com/courses/astronomy?page=2

Answers to moon questions: https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/all-about-moon/

Great pictures of the planets: https://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/

Solar system updates: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/overview/

Lots of fun information about humans and flight: https://airandspace.si.edu/learn

NASA Kids: https://www.nasa.gov/kidsclub/index.html

Here are suggested books for further reading and exploring the topics of Astronomy 1.

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Excellent Resources for General Science and Astronomy

The Usborne First Encyclopedia of Space – Paul Dowswell

The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia

The Usborne Internet-linked Science Encyclopedia

The Usborne Illustrated Dictionary of Science

The Earth and Sky (Scholastic: A First Discovery Book) – Gillamard Jeunesse

How The Universe Works (Reader’s Digest) – Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest

The Reader’s Digest Children’s Atlas of the Universe – Robert Burnham

Usborne Book of Astronomy and Space – Lisa Miles

The Night Sky (Usborne Spotter’s Guide) – Nigel Henbest and Stuart Atkinson

The Kingfisher Young People’s Book of Space – Martin Redfern

Light

What Are Light Waves? – Robin Johnson

Light and Its Effects – Jenna Winterberg

The Magic School Bus: The Mysteries of Rainbows – The Young Scientists Club

All the Colors of the Rainbow – Allan Fowler

Light: Shadows, Mirrors, and Rainbows – Natalie M. Rosinsky

All About Light – Lisa Trumbauer

What Are Sound Waves? – Robin Johnson

Sound Waves and Communication – Jenna Winterberg

Sounds All Around – Wendy Pfeffer

Universe and Solar System

The Magic School Bus Sees Stars – Joanna Cole

The Earth and Sky (Scholastic- A First Discovery Book) – Gallimard Jeunesse and Jean-PierreVerdet

Stargazers – Gail Gibbons

Stars: A New Way to See Them – H.A. Rey

Stars: A Guide to the Constellations, Sun, Moon, Planets, and Other Features of the Heavens – Herbert Spencer Zim

Find the Constellations – H. A. Rey

Stars – Seymour Simon

Galaxies – Seymour Simon

Night Sky (Eyewitness Explorer) – Carole Stott

The Night Sky (One Small Square series) – Donald M. Silver

Which Way to the Milky Way? – Sidney Rosen

The Universe – Seymour Simon (Nebulas, black holes and other distant space objects)

Comets, Meteors and Asteroids – Seymour Simon

Many other titles by Seymour Simon: The Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Destination Mars, Jupiter, Destination Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Planets, Around the Sun, Our Solar System

Professor Astro Cat’s Frontiers of Space – Dr. Dominic Walliman and Ben Newman

Information Graphics: Space – Simon Rogers

Older than the Stars – Karen C. Fox

The Story of Space: A First Book about our Universe – Catherine Barr, Steve Williams, and Amy Husband

Glow in the Dark: Voyage through Space – Katy Flint and Cornelia Li

DK Eyewitness Books: Universe

The Stargazer’s Notebook – Blair Lee

You Are Stardust – Elin Kelsey

What’s Out There: A Book about Space – Lynn Wilson

Gravity Is a Mystery – Franklyn M Branley

The Moon Seems to Change – Franklyn M. Branley

What the Moon Is Like – Franklyn Branley