Earth & Space Science

Discovering Sonification
Brightly colored sound wave with text, "Discovering Sonification"
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Learn more about sonification and the exciting future Ballyland Sonoplanet app which incorporates sonification into a game for young students!
Discovering Exoplanets Using Sonification
Graphic with a space telescope, exoplanet and star. The exoplanet is blocking the starlight. Text, "Discover Exoplanets"
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Space enthusiasts - be the first 5 students to complete the activity and receive a 3D astronomical model!
Hearing the Sound of Light
Images of the Hubble space telescope and an ear with text, "Astronify: Hear the Sound of Light"
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Explore the solar system with sonification!
Story Time From Space
Story Time from Space logo with a space background and edge of earth with www.StoryTimefromSpace.com
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Astronauts reading space-themed books from the International Space Station!
Homework Hotline for Blind and Visually Impaired Students
Cartoon girl with clasped praying hands showing distress in front of a computer with text, "Homework hotline"
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Does your K12 student with visual impairments need qualified help with homework during the COVID-19 school closures?
Join the AstroHunters Project
Image of CosmoBally - a Ballyland astronaut character - and text, "AstroHunters" with space and stars background.
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YOUR elementary students with visual impairments can become "citizen scientists" in this exciting opportunity to explore space, stars and planets!
Accessible Astronomy: Catch the Light! CCD Cameras
An astronomer with 2 high school students exploring a tactile model of light captured by a CCD Camera. "Accessible Astronomy"
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Here is an accessible astronomy activity that demonstrates how CCD Cameras capture the light of images of objects in space.
Accessible Astronomy: Tactile Telescope
Photo of Kate explaining the tactile telescope model to a high school student.
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Create a tactile telescope model that students with visual impairments can feel and explore!
Accessible Astronomy: A tactile electromagnetic spectrum
Two high school students smiling and wearing sunglasses with a large puzzle piece with a wavy line in front of them
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Most of the information we receive from the universe is invisible to the human eye. This post will get you started learning about electromagnetic radiation
Accessible Astronomy - An Introduction to IDATA and GLAS Education
GLAS logo with a telescope on top of an observatory and Geneva Lake Astrophysics and STEAM; text, "Accessible Astronomy: Intro".
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Introduction to a GLAS and the first in an exciting series of accessible, hands-on astronomy-related posts!

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