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Starry Night™ Middle School
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
To run Starry Night™ Middle School you need:
Windows™: Requires Windows XP, 500 MHz or higher processor, 128 MB RAM and 500MB of hard disk space. OpenGL® support requires a 32 MB OpenGL® capable graphics card. Minimum recommended monitor resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels.
Macintosh™: Requires OS X 10.3 or higher, G3 450 MHz or higher processor, 128 MB RAM and 500 MB of hard disk space. Will not run on OS 9.x or earlier. OpenGL® support requires a 32 MB OpenGL® capable graphics card. Minimum recommended monitor resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels.
Basic support for joysticks recognized by Windows XP and Mac OS X.
Requirements for Video DVD: Home DVD player and TV, or computer with DVD player.
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