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National Aeronautics  & Space Administration for Kids - NASA KIDS offers a fun way for children to learn about NASA's activities and science, using interactive tools and kid-attractive pages.  NASA KIDS is an on-line or printable resource designed for kids aged 5 to 14.
Sea and Sky - A collection of sites for inquisitive minds. This site has been very well received by the educational community and has received a number of distinctive awards.
Amazing Space - A nice collection of interactive activities where you can learn about black holes, collect solar system trading cards, and more. Each activity includes high quality graphics and animation.
Astronomy for Kids - Take a journey through the stars and visit the planets, solve word search puzzles, or send a friend an out-of-this-world postcard.
Arty the Astronaut - Take off for fun and adventure with Arty, the part-time astronaut. Nice animation guides you through this site as you learn about our solar system, and play online games and activities. Includes a printable teacher's guide for use at home or in the classroom.
The Astronomy Workshop - Astronomy lovers will find a lot to like at this site! Run a multitude of Java programs that let you create your own solar system, view the moons and their orbits around their planets, learn about astronomical distances, and much more. You can even send a rogue star buzzing through our solar system to see the havoc it would create!
The Space Place - Make futuristic things like a Balloon-powered Asteroid Nanorover, solve puzzles, learn facts about space, and more.
Welcome to the Planets - Learn about the planets in our solar system and the spacecraft we send out to explore them. From NASA.
Build a Solar System - A detailed and thorough explanation on how to make your own solar system.
Space Kids - Here you can take a virtual space tour of our solar system, learn all about the sun and meteor showers, see some great space photos and movies, and play some really cool space games (Flash 4 and Shockwave required).
Outer Space - On this student created website you'll find information on planets, eclipses, stars, comets, meteors, constellations and more! They also have some fun space quizzes and puzzles to test your knowledge.
Kids Astronomy -On this site you can explore the solar system, venture into deep space, join a virtual space exploration, find out how big the universe is, read the latest astronomy news and enjoy some fun astronomy activities. There is also a resource section with a dictionary of astronomy terms and an ask the expert page.
Kid's Domain Space Clip Art - Here's a free collection of Space Clip art. Most have been colorized (and cleaned up) by us from black and white clip art we've found at various free sources. Many are optimized to be small in size with transparent backgrounds, so you can use them on any color pages.

Credits 

Twinkle Star Graphic  
  http://www.cyberisle.com/animate/space/page4.htm
Twinkle Star Icon 
http://www.kidsdomain.com/brain/space/clip.html
Background Music
http://wavplanet.com/moviethemes.shtml#Blist
Background Graphics by Carousel Graphics
http://www.fortunecity.com/westwood/saintlaurent/303/

Created by Tracy Standhart
Instructional Technology Mentor
Title III Technology Literacy Challenge Grant