Usborne First Encyclopedia of Space-With Over 40 Websites
by Scholastic Author
What are stars made of? Why does the Moon shine? What do space toilets look like? Find out in this bright and lively book. Simple text, amazing photographs, detailed illustrations and a selection of exciting, recommended Web sites introduce young readers to the wonders of the Universe. All the Web sites are regularly reviewed, and you will always be able to find up-to-date links to them or other suitable sites in Usborne Quicklinks at www.usborne-quicklinks.com A selection of free downloadable pictures from this book is also available at www.usborne-quicklinks.com
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book & websites
- ISBN
- 0439491444
- Print Status
- In Print
- Lessons
- 34
- Pages
- 64
- Publisher
- Usborne
- Copyright
- 2001
Lessons
- 1 Amazing Space
- 2 The moving sky
- 3 Telescopes
- 4 Radio telescopes
- 5 Trips into space
- 6 Astronaut training
- 7 A walk in space
- 8 Living in space
- 9 Dangers and disasters
- 10 Satellites and space probes
- 11 Into the future
- 12 Is anyone out there?
- 13 What's in our Solar System?
- 14 The Moon
- 15 The Sun
- 16 Mercury and Venus
- 17 Mars
- 18 Jupiter and Saturn
- 19 Uranus and Neptune
- 20 Pluto and beyond
- 21 Bits and pieces
- 22 The Universe
- 23 Distant suns
- 24 A star's life
- 25 Galaxies
- 26 Weird and wonderful
- 27 Looking at the night sky
- 28 Binoculars and telescopes
- 29 Space words
- 30 Go to www.usborne-quicklinks.com to access following lesson sites.
- 31 www.childrensmuseum.org/cosmicquest/index.html
- 32 www.seasky.org/astronomy/sky1.html
- 33 www.jsc.nasa.gov/pao/media/images.html
- 34 library.thinkquest.org/28327
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