Did your students get to see the shuttle launch this morning? What a great way to start a Monday! Seeing a launch never gets old for me, there is always a sense of wonder and anticipation during count down and launch. To celebrate the launch of Endeavour, I thought I would share some of my favorite space websites. In no particular order: 1. We Choose the Moon– An interactive that drops students right into history where they get to witness, and take part in, the Apollo 11 launch and mission. 2. NASA Clickable Spacesuit– An interactive for students to learn…
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What it is: Tag Galaxy is a neat little tool that helps students to explore relationships between words and ideas as well as view pictures related to that word. Type in a word to search and immediately you are transferred to a galaxy with the original word at the center and the associated ideas orbiting around it. When you click on the word in the center, a globe populates with pictures from Flickr that are tagged with that word. Click on one of the orbiting words and tags related to that word start to orbit. Tag Galaxy is a very…