Here you will find a variety of educational resources for teaching astronomy at primary, secondary and tertiary levels. Where possible we have classified the appropriated level of the web sites, and we indicated what other equipment or programs are required to use them.

The most advanced pages are marked with [A], graphically intensive pages with [G] and pages requiring Java [J] .

• All levels

  The Astronomical Society of America's information on Careers in Astronomy

  Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute provides a number of educational activities

  Windows to the Universe[G] provides comprehensive information on all aspects of our Universe, including Teacher resources

  The NASA Observatorium has a number of education activities

  Space Educators' Handbook

  Information on America's Space Day [G] (or alternative version) including Teacher resources

  The WWW Virtual Library includes a list of educational resources

  Learning Technologies, Inc. operates Starlab: a portable planetarium. Starlab presentations are offered by Universities, Science Centres and Educational groups in all states in Australia

  Challenger Center OnLine is a non-profit organization committed to promoting scientific literacy

  SEDS-Canada is student-run organization aimed at furthering student interest in space science[G]

  Exploring Planets in the Classroom provides a set of hands-on science activities

  The Interactive Astrophyics Arcadehas a number of on-line activites[G]

  Ask a NASA scientist

• Primary School

  Amazing Space [A] is a set of web-based activities for classroom use operated by the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute

  Reaching for the Red Planet guides grade 4-6 students through planning and designing a colony on Mars

  Starchild is a learning centre for young astronomers

• Secondary School

  Project CLEA [A] provides excellent laboratory exercises in Astronomy which run on PCs or Macintosh computers

  Mission to Mars allows students to plan and carry out a virtual space mission to Mars

  Mysteries of Deep Space has a nuber of educational activities

• Tertiary

  A Java applet for N-body simulations [J]

  A Java demonstration of orbiting binary stars [J]

  The University of Oregon has developed a Virtual Laboratory [J] of physics experiments with Java applets, including several astrophysics experiments

The University of Melbourne provides two first year subjects in astronomy, and several practical exercises for these courses have been developed by members of the Astrophyics Group.

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