NASA Reference and Library Materials

Adventures in Airspace Systems Education: ISO Disk Image (188.6 MB)
Computer CD-ROM for Mac OS9 or higher or Windows XP, NT, 2000. Requires a browser, Flash player, and Quicktime. An internet connection is required to view auxiliary materials. The CD-ROM includes the following educational programs:

Virtual Skies (Grades 9-12+) - The metaphor of air traffic management allows students to engage in real-life descision-making scenarios in the areas of geography, meteorology, statistics, and aeronautics.

Future Flight Design (Grades 5-8) - Problem-based learning in this interactive web site teaches students about forces and motion, engineering design, and aerospace engineering.

Robin Whirlybird (Grades K-4) - Teachers, students, and homeschoolers alike will enjoy this online, interactive storybook about one girl's visit to a rotorcraft research center where her mother works.

NASA Aeronautics Research Onboard : ISO Disk Image (262.6 MB)

Interactive CD and Touch Screen files that lead students through discoveries and inventions NASA developed to help make aviation safer and better. Covers commercial and military aircraft. Works on both Macintosh and Windows PCs.

Exploring Aeronautics: ISO Disk Image (392 MB) - For Macintosh and Windows

Exploring Aeronautics is designed for classroom use in grades 5-8. This exciting educational CD-ROM offers an introduction to aeronautics, covers the fundamentals of flight, contains an historical timeline, examines different types of aircraft and teaches students to use the tools of aeronautics used by researchers to test aircraft designs. This teacher-paced software includes lively animations. Quicktime movies and student activities promoting the use of the scientific method in the world of aeronautics.

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Gate to Gate: ISO Disk Image (300 MB) - For Macintosh Power PC and Windows 98 or Later

Get ready for your journey through our nation's Air Traffic Control System. You will take a behind-the-scenes look at the people and the tools they use every day to manage air traffic. You will navigate through several phases of a flight from San Francisco to New York beginning with the preflight phase and ending with the landing phase.

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Space School Musical

Disc 1 - Space School Musical DVD Video: Total running time: ISO image = 3.73 GB

30 minutes of non-stop action and learning performed by students from Hamilton High School in Los Angeles, California. Also extra features.

Space School Musical Activity Guides - PDF Files - Contains cross curricular lesson plans. Teaching tips. How to produce the play. Lyrics and glossary.

1. Activity Guide
2. Lyrics
3. Produce the Play
4. Teaching Tips

Disc 3 - Space School Musical - Music Tracks and Karaoke Tracks: Zip File = 101 MB

9 amazing music tracks filled with fun facts. One version with vocals for listening, learning and lip-syncing. One karaoke version so you can sing our lyrics or write your own.

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Imagine the Universe DVD - 15th Edition - March 2011: A NASA produced DVD that contains four astronomy education web sites captured in January 2009. It provides information, beautiful images, and learning adventures for all ages and grade levels. Included are...

• Starchild - general astronomy for grades K-8
• Imagine the Universe! - exotic objects and topics in our universe for grades 7 and up.
• Astronomy Picture of the Day - beautiful images and explanations for all ages.
• James Webb Space Telescope - Education highlights for grades 6-12 selected from the web site of NASA's next great observatory - games, movies, and explanations of the beginnings of our universe.

(Prepared and produced by members of the Astrophysics Science Division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to bring the excitement of their work to teachers, students, and the world.)