If you are a K-16 educator, planetarium/museum professional, librarian, amateur astronomer, or community leader in New England, NESSIE agents can consult with you and provide leads to education opportunities in space science that best match your needs and interest.

Curriculum Resources
	Lesson Plans and other Curriculum Resources
	A compilation of various lesson plans and resources for curriculum development or enhancement, many from NASA.
	Museum of Science's Curricula & Research Resources
	Consists of teaching materials developed by educators at the Museum of Science in partnership with major companies and organizations.
	Museum of Science's Educator Resource Center
	Search through a hand-picked selection of the best standards-based science, technology and engineering resources for your classroom, including Museum exhibits, programs, and K-12 technology and engineering curriculum resources for educators.
	Teacher Developed Earth and Space Science Lessons and Classroom Activities
	Compiled from the Center for Science Education at University of California, Berkeley, for grade levels ranging from 3 – 12.
	Teachers' Domain
	Teacher's Domain was developed by the WGBH Educational Foundation to provide multimedia resources for the classroom and professional development. Resources are selected by Science category and grade level; a Social Studies category is also offered. Standards are provided for each. Registration is required.
	The JASON Project's JASON Expedition: Mysteries of Earth and Mars - New for 2005-06!
	Dr. Robert Ballard and a team of scientists will take you and your middle-grade students on the trip to Mars via multimedia. Working with renowned partner organizations such as NASA, as well as research and academic institutions around the world, students will conduct investigations and make discoveries that will help unravel the Mysteries of Earth and Mars. Includes state standards information.
Internet Resources for Astronomy and Space Science
	Astronomy resources on the Web: Sites from the amateur and professional astronomer
	List compiled by Jane Duffy, a physics/astronomy librarian in the Science and Engineering Library at Ohio State University Libraries, for the Association of Research and College Libraries at th American Library Assocation website.
	Bibliography Resources on Astronomy Education and Research
	Internet based bibliography resources for Astronomy Education and Research.
	NASA's Virtual Design Center
	NASA-sponsored Classroom of the Future’s Virtual Design Center! Researchers at the Classroom of the Future™ developed the Virtual Design Center to provide other educational researchers and NASA and educational technology designers with research-based guidelines to help them design inquiry-based learning activities.
Workshops
	Free Teacher Workshops
	@ The Wright Center for Science Education at Tufts University ~ 2006 schedule
	Project ASTRO and Family ASTRO
	Two Excellent and quite popular examples of ways NESSIE can partner educators and scientists.
NASA Education Resources
	NASA LEARN
	A virtual curriculum resource center designed to help teachers in the state of Maine select instructional materials and assessments aligned to standards.
	NASA's Office of Space Science Portal
	Watering hole for museum and planetarium professionals.
	Basics of Space Flight
	Training module designed primarily to help operations people identify the range of concepts associated with deep space missions, and grasp the relationships among them. It also enjoys popularity with college and high school students, as well as faculty, and people everywhere who are interested in interplanetary space flight.
	The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
	The SOHO (Solar & Heliospheric Observatory) project is being carried out by the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA as a cooperative effort between the two agencies in the framework of the Solar Terrestrial Science Program (STSP) comprising SOHO and CLUSTER, and the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics Program (ISTP), with Geotail (ISAS-Japan), Wind, and Polar.
	Hubble Heritage Project
	A gallery of spectacular images taken by the Hubble Telescope camera
Time Out
	Space Science Fun
	Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Popular Myths in Science and Bad Astronomy are among the links listed in this collection of space science themed websites.