Starry Night High School
Making astronomy easier to teach
35+ Seats
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Our Price: $79.95 Per Seat
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Astronomy is a big subject, but Starry Night High School makes it easy to teach astronomy 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:
- U.S. 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
Reviewers praise Starry Night High School!
"Starry Night High School is a great choice for a department in which there is a science course with at least a semester dedicated to astronomy. The high school edition includes units on the Earth, Moon, Sun, solar system, stars and constellations, Sun as a star, stars and galaxies, and exploration of space."
-- NSTA Recommends
"For many, astronomy is more than just a matter of popping out and taking a peek at the stars - it's a serious hobby, and the Starry Night range is simply the best software we've seen to support that legion of amateur astronomers."
-- Popular Science
2006-Starry Night High School- CODIE Award Finalist "Best Instructional Solution: Science"
2006-Starry Night High School- BESSIE Award "Best Software in High School:Science"
Explore Starry Night High School!
- Sample Lesson Plan (PDF)
- National and State/Province Standards Correlations (PDF)
- Table of Contents (PDF)
Starry Night High School's Student Interface
The Welcome Screen introduces each lesson with a brief background and overview.
Question 1: Do all stars have approximately the same temperature? Explain.
Question 2: Why are stars born in a nebula?
Question 3: Why is the central star of the nebula difficult to see?
Question 4: How could the supernova have been seen in 1054?
Question 5: Use the HR diagram to fill out the chart in the StarDatabase. Record to which group each star belongs.
Extra Credit can add another level of understanding beyond what is covered in the basic lesson.
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 Principal Galaxy Catalog 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
What does Starry Night High School come with?
- Award-winning Starry Night planetarium software version 5.0
- SkyTheater DVD
- Introductory astronomy book (PDF)
- And MORE!
What are people saying?
"The universe is a big place. As a professional astrophysicist and dedicated educator, I know the challenge of finding fertile means to explain abstract cosmic topics. Starry Night makes teaching space science easy, and, dare I say, fun. Written by teachers for teachers, this brilliantly integrated curriculum tracks national science standards, and comes complete with assessment tools, detailed lesson plans, hands-on activities, student worksheets and, of course, the award-winning Starry Night software. For all your students, but especially for those who think astronomy is above their heads, you'll be amazed by how swiftly the universe comes down to Earth."
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Astrophysicist and Director, Hayden Planetarium
American Museum of Natural History