About page highlights Web sites to help educators work timely themes into their lessons. This week's sites are among the best on the Web for teaching about space.
Children often have seemingly endless questions about space.
This week, Education World looks at four books that answer students' questions and provide additional fascinating facts, stories, and activities to help make the study of space fun, educational, and exciting. Three new kids' books examine in differing amounts of detail the historic moon landing of July 20, 1969. Teach your students about the total eclipse of the moon. Meteor Showers Education World recommends some of the best World Wide Web sites on meteors, comets, amateur astronomy, and other fascinating topics. Barbara Morgan shares with Education World her thoughts about her role as NASA's first education mission specialist, and about what the space program has to offer students and teachers throughout the world.