"StarChild" Applications in a Classroom Setting

Volume 35 number 1 (2007)

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E. Truelove

J. Dejoie

Abstract

"StarChild" is a World Wide Web learning center for young astronomers developed by middle school teachers in conjunction with scientists at the High- Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center at NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center. The site is designed to function as an instructional tool which will both educate and excite elementary and middle school students about a variety of astronomy topics.