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Astronomy
Amazing Space: Tactile Astronomy
This is a selection of image files that can be downloaded and printed in tactile format. Images include Neptune, Mars, Vespa and many others.
Kids to Space: A Space Travelers Guide
Students aged three to eighteen ask questions about planning a trip to the moon or a future orbiting hotel. More than eighty experts provide the answers on traveling and living in outer space. Now in Braille ready format!
Grade level: 5-8
Organization: National Library for the Blind and Physically Impaired
Cost: Free (with NLS subscription)
Visit the Web site to Subscribe
Space Exploration Experience (SEE) Project for the Blind and Visually Impaired
The goal of this program is to develop and test Braille/tactile inquiry-based hands-on space science activities and observing programs that actively engage blind and visually impaired students from elementary grades through introductory college level in space science. Visitors to the site can download images that can easily be made tactile and instructions for lessons.
Grade level: Third to Introductory college
Cost: Free
Visit the Space Exploration Experience (SEE) Online
Adapted Curriculum Enhancement (ACE) - Evolving Universe
With a focus on introducing blind and visually impaired students to the wonders of the universe, the ACE program presents the first module specifically adapted for these underrepresented students. Evolving Universe is a series of classroom activities focusing on the origins of the universe, which teachers can use as part of their curriculum. Educators can download instructions and materials (with tips to make the tactile graphics) for teaching the lessons.
Grade level: 5-12
Organization: NASA and Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL)
Cost: Free
Learn more about the ACE program Online
Quest Challenges
Through interactive, Web-based activities, NASA reaches out to students from kindergarten through high school to introduce them to science and engineering processes. Provides online tools and resources such as lesson plans, teacher guides, and workbooks.
Grade level: K-12
Organization: NASA
Cost: Free
Visit Quest Challenges Online
Spacesounds
Listen to sounds from space, including Sputnik, Saturn's rings, and Jupiter's magnetosphere. Also, learn about the history of the space program through streaming audio of actual NASA ground and spacecraft communications.
Organization: Spacesounds.com, Inc.
Grade level: All
Cost: Free
Listen to Space Sounds Online
Biology
Dinosaursounds
Listen to sounds of dinosaurs and the environment through different ages of the Earth, such as the Hauterivian Age (127 million years ago). Users can also visit the dinosaursounds navigator, where they can move the timeline, hear the sounds of specific dinosaurs of that age, and learn more about how those dinosaurs lived.
*Please note that this site may, at times, be difficult to navigate with a screen reader.
Organization: Spacesounds.com, Inc.
Cost: Free
Listen to Dinosaur Sounds Online
Whalesounds
Listen to the sounds of the seas! This site offers users an insight into the 'songs - of these majestic creatures. Users can also view the whalesounds navigator, allowing them to follow the migration and different calls of the humpback whale.
*Please note that this site may, at times, be difficult to navigate with a screen reader.
Organization: Spacesounds.com, Inc.
Cost: Free
Listen to Whale Sounds Online
Chemistry
Periodic Table of the Elements
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Chemistry Division
Cost: Free
*Please note that this site is difficult to navigate with a screen reader.
Visit the Online Periodic Table of Elements
Earth Science
Quest Challenges
Through interactive, Web-based activities, NASA reaches out to students from kindergarten through high school to introduce them to science and engineering processes. Provides online tools and resources such as lesson plans, teacher guides, and workbooks.
Grade level: K-12
Organization: NASA
Cost: Free
Visit Quest Challenges Online
Dinosaursounds
Listen to sounds of dinosaurs and the environment through different ages of the Earth, such as the Hauterivian Age (127 million years ago). Users can also visit the dinosaursounds navigator, where they can move the timeline, hear the sounds of specific dinosaurs of that age, and learn more about how those dinosaurs lived.
*Please note that this site may, at times, be difficult to navigate with a screen reader.
Organization: Spacesounds.com, Inc.
Cost: Free
Listen to Dinosaur Sounds Online
Stormsounds
Users can listen to the sounds of different types of storms, from hurricanes to tornadoes to sand storms. In the stormsounds navigator, user may focus on different regions of the world to learn about the types of storms that are common in that region.
*Please note that this site may, at times, be difficult to navigate with a screen reader.
Organization: Spacesounds.com, Inc.
Cost: Free
Listen to Storm Sounds Online
Whalesounds
Listen to the sounds of the seas! This site offers users an insight into the 'songs - of these majestic creatures. Users can also view the whalesounds navigator, allowing them to follow the migration and different calls of the humpback whale.
*Please note that this site may, at times, be difficult to navigate with a screen reader.
Organization: Spacesounds.com, Inc.
Cost: Free
Listen to Whale Sounds Online
General Science
Kids to Space: A Space Travelers Guide
Students aged three to eighteen ask questions about planning a trip to the moon or a future orbiting hotel. More than eighty experts provide the answers on traveling and living in outer space. Now in Braille ready format!
Grade level: 5-8
Organization: National Library for the Blind and Physically Impaired
Cost: Free (with NLS subscription)
Visit the Web site to Subscribe
Space Exploration Experience (SEE) Project for the Blind and Visually Impaired
The goal of this program is to develop and test Braille/tactile inquiry-based hands-on space science activities and observing programs that actively engage blind and visually impaired students from elementary grades through introductory college level in space science. Visitors to the site can download images that can easily be made tactile and instructions for lessons.
Grade level: Third to Introductory college
Cost: Free
Visit the Space Exploration Experience (SEE) Online
Adapted Curriculum Enhancement (ACE) - Evolving Universe
With a focus on introducing blind and visually impaired students to the wonders of the universe, the ACE program presents the first module specifically adapted for these underrepresented students. Evolving Universe is a series of classroom activities focusing on the origins of the universe, which teachers can use as part of their curriculum. Educators can download instructions and materials (with tips to make the tactile graphics) for teaching the lessons.
Grade level: 5-12
Organization: NASA and Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL)
Cost: Free
Learn more about the ACE program Online
Quest Challenges
Through interactive, Web-based activities, NASA reaches out to students from kindergarten through high school to introduce them to science and engineering processes. Provides online tools and resources such as lesson plans, teacher guides, and workbooks.
Grade level: K-12
Organization: NASA
Cost: Free
Visit Quest Challenges Online
Spacesounds
Listen to sounds from space, including Sputnik, Saturn's rings, and Jupiter's magnetosphere. Also, learn about the history of the space program through streaming audio of actual NASA ground and spacecraft communications.
Organization: Spacesounds.com, Inc.
Grade level: All
Cost: Free
Listen to Space Sounds Online
Dinosaursounds
Listen to sounds of dinosaurs and the environment through different ages of the Earth, such as the Hauterivian Age (127 million years ago). Users can also visit the dinosaursounds navigator, where they can move the timeline, hear the sounds of specific dinosaurs of that age, and learn more about how those dinosaurs lived.
*Please note that this site may, at times, be difficult to navigate with a screen reader.
Organization: Spacesounds.com, Inc.
Cost: Free
Listen to Dinosaur Sounds Online
Stormsounds
Users can listen to the sounds of different types of storms, from hurricanes to tornadoes to sand storms. In the stormsounds navigator, user may focus on different regions of the world to learn about the types of storms that are common in that region.
*Please note that this site may, at times, be difficult to navigate with a screen reader.
Organization: Spacesounds.com, Inc.
Cost: Free
Listen to Storm Sounds Online
Whalesounds
Listen to the sounds of the seas! This site offers users an insight into the 'songs - of these majestic creatures. Users can also view the whalesounds navigator, allowing them to follow the migration and different calls of the humpback whale.
*Please note that this site may, at times, be difficult to navigate with a screen reader.
Organization: Spacesounds.com, Inc.
Cost: Free
Listen to Whale Sounds Online
Technology
Access Technology
NFB Technology Resource List
A comprehensive list of the latest access technology available created by the staff of the International Braille and Technology Center at the National Federation of the Blind, Jernigan Institute. From notetakers to talking books, you'll find the information you need, including contact information for the manufacturer.
Look at the NFB Technology Resource List
Engineering
General Engineering
Quest Challenges
Through interactive, Web-based activities, NASA reaches out to students from kindergarten through high school to introduce them to science and engineering processes. Provides online tools and resources such as lesson plans, teacher guides, and workbooks.
Grade level: K-12
Organization: NASA
Cost: Free
Visit Quest Challenges Online
Math
Quest Challenges
Through interactive, Web-based activities, NASA reaches out to students from kindergarten through high school to introduce them to science and engineering processes. Provides online tools and resources such as lesson plans, teacher guides, and workbooks.
Grade level: K-12
Organization: NASA
Cost: Free
Visit Quest Challenges Online