Weblinks for 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/
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 questions about the moon: 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
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
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
The Moon Book – Gail Gibbons
Next Time You See the Sunset– Emily Morgan
The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System – Joanna Cole
The Planets – Gail Gibbons
The Planets in Our Solar System – Franklyn M. Branley
Roaring Rockets – Tony Mitton
Next Time You See the Moon – Emily Morgan
Postcards From Pluto: A Tour of the Solar System – Loreen Leedy
Learning About the Solar System(Dover Little Activity Books) – Bruce Lafontaine
Glow in the Dark Constellations: A Field Guide for Young Stargazers – C.E. Thompson
The Sky Observer’s Guide (A Golden Guide) – R. Newton Mayall
Space Travel
Exploring Space: From Galileo to the Mars Rover and Beyond - Martin Jenkins and Stephen Biesty
Space Machines - Ian Graham, Charles Ballesteros, and Martin Taylor
Amazing Machines Roaring Rockets Activity Book - Tony Mitton
Margaret and the Moon - Dean Robbins
Movies and Television Featuring Voyager and Space Exploration
Space: 1999 episode "Voyager's Return"
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
Starman (Features encounters with Voyager 2 and the Golden Record.)
2012 anime, Humanity Has Declined, "Episode 6: The Fairies Homecoming (Part 2)"
1994 X-Files episode "Little Green Man"
PBS documentary: "The Farthest−Voyager in Space"
