Starry Night High School (30-User Lab Pack)

Grade Levels: 9-12

Astronomy is a big subject -- Starry Night High School makes it easy to teach with a comprehensive space science curriculum solution written for teachers by teachers.

Starry Night High School offers innovative lesson plans correlated to 9th through 12th grade standards, hands-on activities, software guided explorations, DVD movie content and assessment tests.

Travel from anywhere on Earth to any planet or star to help your students visualize the size and distances between objects to gain a deeper understanding of the scale of the universe.

Starry Night computer exercises, hands on activities and thought-provoking discussion questions encourage students to explore advanced topics, such as the life cycles of stars.

You'll be amazed by how quickly your students will grasp the fundamentals of astronomy.

Starry Night High School is:

US and Canadian curriculum specific

Full of pre-tested activities and exercises

Designed specifically for high school students

Hands-on and interactive

Fun and simple to use

Integrated solution complete with:

26 detailed lesson plans

Interactive computer exercises

Hands-on classroom activities

Conceptual background

Discussion questions

Assessment tests and answer keys

Resource lists

Appendices

Glossary of astronomical terms

Includes:

Award-winning Starry Night planetarium software version 5.0

SkyTheater DVD

Introductory astronomy book (PDF)

And MORE!

Award-winning Starry Night software allows you to:

Control most popular brands of computerized telescopes

Travel through time from 99,999 BC to 99,999 AD

View over 16 million stars and 1 million galaxies objects with online link to 500 million stars

Explore PGC catalog with 1,000,000 galaxies

Plan and annotate observing sessions in the SkyCalendar seamlessly integrated with observation planner and logs

Access dynamic Hertzsprung-Russell diagram to view the lifecycle of stars

Print full sky (180-degree) star charts of any area in the sky

System Requirements

Macintosh

Requires OS X 10.3 or higher

G3 450 MHz or higher processor

128 MB RAM

500 MB of hard disk space

Will not run on OS 9.x or earlier

OpenGL support requires a 32 MB OpenGL capable graphics card

Minimum recommended monitor resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels

Windows

Requires Windows XP

500 MHz or higher processor

128 MB RAM

500MB of hard disk space (1 GB for full install)

OpenGL support requires a 32 MB OpenGL capable graphics card

Minimum recommended monitor resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels