Fun stuff for Students and Parents

Images from some of the telescopes Canada helped build and operate

• CFHT Image Gallery (Canada France Hawaii 3.6 meter telescope). Hint: check out the astronomy images of the month.

• Gemini Public Outreach (Gemini 8 meter telescopes)

  • Check out the Image Gallery

• ALMA Multimedia (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array)

Engineering

• Solar Power (thanks to Mason for this)

Exoplanets (planets around other stars)

• ExoExplorations - our very own initiative! Try our first activity and give us feedback.

• Exoplanet colouring sheets (NASA)

• Eyes on Exoplanets (JPL/NASA) - an incredible interactive visualization app for exoplanets.

• TESS Planet Hunters page - discover your own Exoplanet!

Our solar system

• Travel times from Earth to the planets. (Thanks to Morag for this)

• Solar System in Your Pocket. (Thanks again to Morag)

• Learn (JPL/NASA) - projects, video games, and more.

• Toolkit (JPL/NASA) - printouts and downloads

• Eyes on the Solar System (JPL/NASA) - like the exoplanet app, but about our solar system.

• Eyes on the Earth (JPL/NASA) - an app to monitor the Earth’s environment in real-time using NASA satellites.

Games and Interactive featuers

• Dark Matter video game - we’re not kidding! (Perimeter Institute)

• The Road to Apollo - Interactive (PBS The American Experience)

• SpaceX ISS docking simulator - SpaceX

Apps and other software

• Stellarium (Software)- this was the original foundation for our planetarium software and we use it. It’s free!

• Heavens-Above (website and app) - this will tell you when to look for satellites and the app will even give you a live view of what satellites are visible to you right now.

General Space Resources and experiments

• ExoExplorations - our very own initiative! Try our first activity and give us feedback.

• Fun Experiments (Canadian Space Agency)

• Make your own spectroscope (LiveScience)

• How to make a star wheel (Sky and Telescope magazine)

• Omnimax and Space Suite films (Science World Vancouver) Note: the SpaceSuite films are the same films we show in the Centre of the Universe.

• Activities (Science World Vancouver)

• Spark Science from home (TELUS)

• NASA at home - activities, videos, e-books and more (NASA)

• Resources for Backyard Explorers - videos and activities (‘Imiloa Astronomy Center, Hawaii)

• Activities for students about the Sun (Stanford University’s Solar Center)

• Stardate online (Stardate) Note: lots of stuff here.

  • Activities galore

• Astronomy and Space Science (Exploratorium)

Projects

• Citizen Science Projects (Zooniverse) Note: better for older/advanced students. There is a space science section. Work with scientific data and make a real contribution to science. Endlessly absorbing.

Livestream/virtual Events

• Discover the Universe - Astronomy at home. Youtube sessions every weekday at 2 p.m. EDT/11 a.m. PDT

• Special online series! - Calendar with links (Royal Astronomical Society of Canada)

• Live telescope feeds (Slooh)

  • They also have live astronomy lessons on facebook.

• Sky and Telescope magazine livestream events - New!

• Cosmos from your couch lectures (David Dunlap Observatory)

Podcasts

• Curious Universe - New! (NASA)