This is a popular astronomy website designed by NASA for children, and is very suitable forUsed for astronomical enlightenment. The page has vivid colors, the interactive projects are simple and easy to operate, and the content is rich and authoritative.

As soon as I open Space Place, the first thing that attracts me was the six content sections on the homepage, namely Earth, Sun, Solar System, Cosmic, Science and Technology, and Educator. From the content theme, to the latest frontiers, to the sharing of learning materials, the content is very extensive, allowing us to clearly see the entire framework of learning.

Under each content section, there are 5 sub-sections, namely: Popular Science Literature, Game, Manual, Activities and Video. Taking the "EARTH" section as an example, after clicking from the home page, the page is as follows:

Space Place, in addition to content classification, the bottom also provides classifications according to the "interactive form" dimension, divided into "games", handmade, activity, videos, glossary and mysterious things". These sections are very suitable for playing with children!

In the middle of the website, we recommend recent popular science articles and games. What's more awesome is that there is also an entrance to find the situation of national empty satellites, which is very interesting.

Click on any location you are interested in

Relevant information about the corresponding location can appear

In short, each section will be of great help to children in astronomy enlightenment. Next, I will talk about the content of each section carefully.

Astronomy Popular Science Articles

This section is really very suitable for children to read. First of all, the article is short and concise, the words are not difficult to use, and the pictures are rich and vivid.

For example, in this article explaining the "transcendent phenomenon", the animation is displayed, intuitive and vivid!

Secondly, the entry points of the topic are very interesting and can easily arouse children's interest. CompareFor example, the entry points for these topics under the "EARTH" section—

How far is the moon from us?

How does GPS work?

What is a volcano?

Why is the sky blue?

Of course, as an English website, children with average English level must have language reading disorders. However, online translation is so common that you can directly use the browser's web page translation function to translate it into Chinese web pages, which can solve this problem!

Interactive Games

I think This will be a sector that everyone can't stop. Not to mention children, I am a little addicted to experience games and can’t stop picking up the score.

Because of a popular science website for children, every game is simple and easy to operate. As long as you understand the rules, it is quite easy to play. The most important thing is that he can allow children to understand and master various abstract or difficult astronomical knowledge in games.

For example, a game called "go with the flow"—

In this game, you are set in a submarine, you need to correct the flow of water and take yourself where you want to go - you need to get the key to open the treasure chest.

The way to correct the water flow is actually the way the ocean current operates in reality - salt makes the water heavier, so it sinks; heat makes the water lighter, so the water will rise. In the game, you can move by adding salt or heating. It can be said that this game is making full use of the operation of ocean currents. Is there any more fun way to educate and entertain?

Of course, there are games for younger children, such as this game called "Play Satellite Insight" -

This game is a bit like Tetris and is very easy to use! You can also learn about the basic information and functions of the geosynchronous operation environment satellite GOES-R while playing.

Handmade

This is a section with rich content and strong dryness. is recommended to add it to daily family games. It is really simple and fun, and easy to use. Each handicraft has very specific and detailed graphic decomposition steps, which is quite friendly to the "hand-in-hand party".

Moreover, in the manual rules, we naturally inlaid common sense in science to let the children travelI learned little knowledge in the play, but it had no preaching meaning at all, it was easy to remember and interesting.

For example, the handicrafts for making Earth Circle Fan—

The most important thing is the color card, different colors represent the different circle structures of the earth.

The most thoughtful thing is that the steps of these manual activities can be downloaded in PDF form for free, then printed out, and you can take your children to play!

A variety of handicrafts are really rich, and you may be addicted to it at that time.

Being an aurora can be used as a decoration, is there any?

Yes, this is a sun, real art!

Yes, this is an earth

The above handmade work items can be retrieved by replying to "NASA" in the background!

Activity

This section brings together many interesting small experiments.Children can complete them together with the cooperation of their parents, and learn astronomy knowledge while playing.

This part is more difficult to operate than manual work. In addition to understanding the rules clearly, there are certain requirements for the venue or equipment. However, it can also be achieved for parents who want to execute intact.

For example, the experiment of launching rockets from a rotating planet can help children understand the timing of rocket launch.

Simulate a rocket with a small ball, place the empty basket about 3 to 4 meters away from the park carousel, and then, a man takes the ball and walks onto the carousel without moving the horse, and try to throw a few balls into the basket on the ground;

Put the ball into the container and leave it on the carousel, the experimenter jumped down, pushed the horse to move slowly, and then jumped back, trying to throw the ball into the basket on the ground.

The result you will find: "Time is everything!"This is the same thing that space engineers and scientists consider when choosing launch time, looking for the best time to launch a rocket, namely " Launch Window".