Astronomy Village: Investigating the Universe

Students in ninth and 10th grades can explore the universe by visiting a virtual space-research community with Astronomy Village: Investigating the Universe. This multimedia program offers 10 complete investigations in astronomy to complement and extend high school science curriculum. Resources on the CD-ROM include digitized video clips, images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, audio clips of astronomers discussing their work, computer animations and graphics, and full-text documents such as NASA publications and astronomy journals. NASA Classroom of the Future and Wheeling Jesuit University, (304) 243-2388, www.cotf.edu.

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