Welcome to Elkin City School's One-Stop-Shop for Professional Development
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NASA's Solar System Exploration - This website contains interactive displays of the planets, dwarf planets, and moons of our solar system. To launch an interactive display just choose one of the planets, dwarf planets, or moons from the menu in the site's header. Each display includes little markers in it. Click one of the markers to open a side panel that contains information about that particular feature of the planet, dwarf planet, or moon. Below each interactive display you'll find additional facts and figures.
NASA Space Place - This is a sizable collection of fun projects, games, animations, and lessons about Earth, space, and technology. Before playing the games or attempting one of the projects, students should explore the animations and facts sections to gain some background information. The projects section of NASA Space Place provides teachers, parents, and students with directions for hands-on projects like building a balloon-powered rover, building relief maps, and building a moon habitat. The games section offers thirty games covering all of the subjects in the animations and facts sections.
NASA Kids' Club - This is a collection games, interactive activities, and images for students in Kindergarten through fourth grade. At the center of the NASA Kids' Club is a set of games and interactive activities arranged on five skill levels. The activities range from simple things like coloring pages and pattern recognition games to more difficult tasks like identifying planets based on clues provided in written and video form.
NASA's eClips videos - The videos are short clips designed to show students the work NASA is doing and how that work impacts space science as well as its potential impact on everyday life. All of the videos can be viewed online on the NASA eClips site, viewed on YouTube, or downloaded for use on your local computer. Videos are arranged by grade level: K-5, 6-8, 9-12, and the General Public.
What Did Hubble See on Your Birthday? - Enter the month/day of your birthday & you'll see an image that Hubble captured that day.
Think Like a Coder - 10-episode video series from TED-Ed that will challenge viewers with programming puzzles as the main characters
World Population History Map - Interactive map that shows world population over time, along with informational milestones.
Physics Explained Well - Contains concise lessons on topics indicative of an introductory level, algebra-based physics course. The lessons are divided up by unit and the note templates with links to corresponding lessons are available on this site.
The Size of Space - Interactive site that helps represent the scale of items from humans, through the planets and stars, up to the observable universe.
The Deep Sea - Interactive site that lets you scroll down from the surface of the ocean to a depth more than 10,000 meters deep, exploring creatures and facts along the way.
STEM Community Resource Page - STEM picks of the week and other helpful resources.
Chimera Painter - AI-powered tool from Google to design your own fantastical creatures.
Rocket Science: Ride To The Station - NASA simulation website and app where players can run a mission to the International Space Station.
NASA's Visual Universe - Searchable collection of over 127,000 historic images from 1915 to the present, covering NASA’s rich history of discoveries, missions, and science.
Investigating Science with Flipgrid - Resources and activities for using Flipgrid in science for observational and inferencing skills.
Earth Wind Map - Live animated globe showing wind patterns, temperatures, and ocean currents across the Earth.
The Globe of Extremes - Interactive map of the extremes of the Earth (deepest, highest, farthest places, etc.)
See a Satellite Tonight - Interactive site to show when the International Space Station, and other satellites, will fly over your location.
Global Temperature Changes - Data and animated graphs on global temperature change from 1884 to the present.
How Far Is It To Mars - This interactive site shows how far it is from the Earth to Mars by letting you explore a scaled model where the Earth is 100 pixels wide.
Journey to the Center of the Earth - This interactive site lets you travel to the center of the Earth, learning facts and exploring special depths along the way.
How Big Is Space? - This interactive site lets you travel from Earth to the edge of our solar system to understand how big space is, while exploring planets and other items along the way.
Paint By Particle - NASA models and supercomputing have created a colorful new view of aerosol movement.