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Web Activities for NASA CONNECT™
Venus Transit Episode
Wildridge Education and NASA have partnered to bring you
rich educational content that is also fun! Wildridge Education
provides interdisciplinary curriculum that engages all ages.
To learn more about Wildridge, select one of the menu items
on the left or choose one of the tabs above. NASA CONNECT™
is the program that connects you to math, science, technology,
and NASA.
The Angles and Distance lessons shown below are taken from
Wildridge Education’s Math & the Cosmos™ software
program. The lessons will take several minutes to launch on
slower connections. The time meter will reach 100 when the
lesson is ready to display.
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| Angles
How are angles used to determine your location on Earth? Learn how
to measure different types of angles. Discover how to use angles to
track the stars and how ancient navigators used the stars as guides
in their journeys.
Discover the role the Earth and the sun play in seasonal change.
Read about the ancient Greeks and their mythological explanation of
why the Earth has seasons.
Challenge yourself! Try the final Angles challenge to see
what you know about Angles.
Show me the Angles lesson!
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| Distance
What is parallax? Find out how astronomers use parallax to
measure the distance to nearby stars. Discover how to measure
the distance to stars that are too far away for parallax to
be observed.
Explore other properties of stars, such as energy and light,
and learn what these properties can tell us about how far
away a star is from Earth.
Challenge yourself! Try the final Distance challenge to see
what you know about Distance.
Show me the Distance lesson!
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NASA CONNECT™ visitors click here to return to the Venus Transit Episode:
Venus Transit
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To view Angles or Distance, you will need
the Flash 5 player or later. If the activities do not display
when launched, click this icon
to download the free player.
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