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Student Interactive Sites:
NASA – Ed Space
See what its like to live in space! Great pictures, video, and activities that are of interest to students.
NASA FTCSC
A site about space food for kids with great activities and explanations.
Cool Cosmos (from Cal Tech)
Cool interactive site just for kids with games, puzzles, and lessons about space.

Teacher Resources:
Space.Com – Teach Space
Great site for teachers! Contains lesson units and stand-alone plans for teaching about space.
Instructional Materials in Science Education (from NCSU)
Great site for Teachers! This site is easy to navigate and features lesson plans, activities, and information about teaching science to students.

Space Technology:
Habitability and Environmental Factors Office – Advanced Food Technology Element
AFT Element is responsible for developing food systems for space vehicles and long duration missions that use a combination of extended shelf life stored foods and raw food products produced from higher plants. Site has technical information on these projects.
Lunar-Mars Life Support Test Project
Good diagrams and descriptions of the research concerning life support in space. Easy explanations of how these devices keep astronauts safe and healthy in space.

Current Science Research:
U.S. Geological Survey
This site is the ‘federal source for science about the Earth, its natural and living resources, natural hazards, and the environment.’ Here you can find information on pollution research and other interesting topics.

Images & Multimedia:

Astronomy Graphics & Digital Photographs

Space Exploration Video
NASA explaoration video
USDA- Agriculture Research Service Photo Gallery
Great photos for use with any agricultural presentation or project!
Great Images in NASA
GRIN is a collection of over a thousand images of significant historical interest scanned at high-resolution in several sizes.
NASA – Human Space Flight Gallery
This site contains photos from space. Search engines allow you to refine your search to look for specific planets and missions for audio, video, or image files.
John Deere Image Gallery
Good site for pictures of agricultural equipment and parts.
Kennedy Space Center Multimedia Gallery
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Photo Gallery
USDA Online Photography Center