Space Shuttle - free detailed panoramic images of Discovery available from NatGeo

The NASA Space Shuttle is retired and the fleet is being sent to museums for display. National Geographic is releasing some very cool, detailed, panoramic images of Discovery.  You can see a few of them below. These are a great way to explore the space shuttles and learn more about them.

To provide an unprecedented look at Discovery and the other retired space shuttles, both inside and out, photographers with National Geographic recently captured more than two dozen ultrahigh-resolution, 360-degree pictures of each orbiter.

See 360-degree HD panorama: space shuttle mid-deck >>

See 360-degree HD panorama: space shuttle's belly >>

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National Geographic releases images of Titanic site

National Geographic has released new images of the wreckage site of the RMS Titanic. The images are mosaics, made up of thousands of images from sonar and photos, in high res. It shows everything as a whole, versus small individual areas.

The images are available in the print edition of National Geographic, on their website, or in the iPad edition of the magazine.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/04/titanic/titanic-photography

These images are a great resource for teachers and students studying the tragedy.

At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the “unsinkable” R.M.S. Titanicdisappeared beneath the waves, taking with her 1,500 souls. One hundred years later, new technologies have revealed the most complete—and most intimate—images of the famous wreck.

Source: The Verge




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Wind Power interactive - great resource from NatGeo

National Geographic Education - teacher resources

Sea Monsters - Nat Geo - ancient sea creatures

Animal Facts from Nat Geo - great resource

Wind Power interactive - great resource from NatGeo

National Geographic has some great resources for education, including the Nat Geo Education site, Nat Geo Animal Facts site, Ancient Sea Monsters, and the Traveler's Guide to the Planets. They also have a great interactive site on Wind Power.

The Wind Power Interactive site goes through how a wind turbine works, how the energy is converted to electricity and more. It's a great site to use with Environmental classes, Physics classes, or pre-engineering classes.

It's one of many interactive sites Nat Geo has.

National Geographic Education - teacher resources

National Geographic has always been a great resource for education. National Geographic has an entire education site for teachers.

The site has teaching resources, lesson plans, activities, links, reference, news, multimedia, and much more.

The activities include NatGeo video clips, objectives, standards, vocabulary, and much more.

This is a great resource for any teacher to use, as topics range from the environment, to science, to social studies.

Here's an example of what an activity page looks like:

Sea Monsters - Nat Geo - ancient sea creatures

Sea Monsters is a very interesting feature from National Geographic. There is a great narrative about ancient sea creatures and the potential for unknown sea creatures to exist today.

The site also has interactive activities on ancient sea monsters where students can learn more about them. There are also two different 3D activities to explore more about these topics.

This is a great site to use with students studying natural history, biology, and life science.