FossWeb Solar Energy Module:
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"Artist Bob
Miller's 'Light Walk' at the Exploratorium is always an eye-opening
experience for students and teachers alike. His unique discoveries will
change the way you look at light, shadow, and images." |
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This site includes ideas
for investigating astronomy in the daytime. Students make indirect
observations of the Sun on the school playground and with models built in the
classroom. |
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An online energy use and
savings calculator from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. |
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Bill Nye, the Science
Guy, helps design a sundial to travel to Mars on the Mars Surveyor mission
scheduled for launch in 2001. |
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NASA presents
information through this Web Exhibit about the Sun, what we know about it, and
what people used to think about it. |
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This is the education
and outreach page for |
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This site includes plans
for solar cookers, photographs, and other information about using solar
energy for cooking food. |
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This site is billed as
the site for energy efficiency, renewable energy, and sustainable technology
information and connections. It is a good start for further research into
alternative energy sources, such as solar, wind and geothermal. The site is
sponsored by CREST, the Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable
Technology. |
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SunBlock `99 is a
multi-media tour of the Sun. Young scientists from the |
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The game you find at
this site allows you to move the sun around a sundial to observe the relationship
between the sun's position in the sky and the direction the shadow is cast. |
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The Nine Planets is a tour
of the Solar System. It includes images, movies, and other information about
the Sun, planets, moons, comets, asteroids, and more. Find out about the
history of space exploration, rocketry, early astronauts, space missions,
spacecraft through a vast archive of photographs, scientific facts, text,
graphics and videos. This site includes English, Spanish, French, and
Portuguese (and other) versions. |
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The Ulysses space probe
was launched by the Space Shuttle Discovery in October, 1990. The probe is
flying in polar orbits and exploring the high latitude areas of the Sun. This
webpage contains animations and other relevant information regarding the Ulysses
mission. |
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This NASA/JPL website
includes images and vital statistics for all of the planets and other objects
in our Solar System. It also includes information about the various space
probes and telescopes that have gathered the information. |