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Starry Night Educational Starry Night Middle School (5-User Lab Pack)by Starry Night
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Grade Levels: 6-8
Meeting all your curriculum standards is easy with Starry Night Middle School, an integrated space science curriculum solution written for teachers by teachers.
Designed for the 6th through 8th grade classroom, Starry Night Middle School introduces astronomy through innovative lessons correlated to national and state/province standards.
Starry Night's realistic depiction of the universe and its stunning 3D graphics and multimedia make even the most complex and abstract astronomy topics easy to teach and understand.
Students will instantly grasp how movements of the Earth create seasons, why the night sky appears to move, and much more.
Complete with assessment tests, detailed lesson plans, hands-on activities, student worksheets and computer exercises, Starry Night Middle School is sure to spark your students' fascination with the Universe.
Starry Night Middle School is:
US and Canadian curriculum specific
Full of pre-tested activities and exercises
Designed specifically for middle school students
Hands-on and interactive
Fun and simple to use
Integrated solution complete with:
24 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:
Travel through time from 4713 BC to 9999 AD
Visit 2.5 million stars
View exclusive Tully database and explore 13,000 deep space objects of the NGC-IC catalog
Fly through the universe in spaceship mode to experience the vastness of space
Plan observing sessions using SkyCalendar full of upcoming astronomical events
Turn on custom constellation illustrations to view the animals and people from Greek and Roman mythology
System Requirements
Macintosh
OS X 10.3 or higher (Will not run on OS 9.x or earlier)
G3 450 MHz or higher processor
128 MB RAM
500 MB of hard disk space
OpenGL support requires a 32 MB OpenGL capable graphics card
Minimum recommended monitor resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels
Windows
Windows XP
500 MHz or higher processor
128 MB RAM
500MB of hard disk space
OpenGL support requires a 32 MB OpenGL capable graphics card
Minimum recommended monitor resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels
Meeting all your curriculum standards is easy with Starry Night Middle School, an integrated space science curriculum solution written for teachers by teachers.
Designed for the 6th through 8th grade classroom, Starry Night Middle School introduces astronomy through innovative lessons correlated to national and state/province standards.
Starry Night's realistic depiction of the universe and its stunning 3D graphics and multimedia make even the most complex and abstract astronomy topics easy to teach and understand.
Students will instantly grasp how movements of the Earth create seasons, why the night sky appears to move, and much more.
Complete with assessment tests, detailed lesson plans, hands-on activities, student worksheets and computer exercises, Starry Night Middle School is sure to spark your students' fascination with the Universe.
Starry Night Middle School is:
Integrated solution complete with:
Includes:
Award-winning Starry Night software allows you to:
System Requirements
Macintosh
Windows