I would really like to get information out to your association
members about the Space Place, our NASA website for younger kids.
Below is an announcement you may wish to post.

Thanks very much

Nancy Leon

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        Wondering where to find a good recipe for a tasty solar
system snack?  Contemplating a cosmic purpose for an unwanted compact
disc (CD)?  Trying to figure out how much yarn it would take to reach
an asteroid?
        Then look no further than NASA's The Space Place web site
(http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov). Managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., this web site provides
interesting facts, fun activities and exciting contests for students
in grades K-6.
        By logging on, students become active participants in NASA's
exciting space exploration missions through the web site's five
categories:  Make Spacey Things; Do Spacey Things: Space Science in
Action: Dr. Marc's Amazing Facts; and Friends Share.
        In Make Spacey Things, you can learn how to transform a CD
into a model Saturn decoration, how to cook tasty but scientific
asteroid potatoes and how to create a relief map puzzle of the world.
In Do Spacey Things, you can fall into a black hole, dive below the
surface of Mars and participate in contests to give real names to
asteroids or spacecraft.
        In Space Science in Action, you can name the trees on earth
from space, make a super sound cone and solve an extraterrestrial
riddle.  Dr. Marc's Amazing Facts explains how far spacecraft
travels, how planetary data is transmitted back to Earth and how
space telescopes work.  For example, it would take 88,000 tons of
yarn to stretch from Earth to asteroid Braille -- or more than enough
yarn to make sweaters for every person in the United States!
        In the Friends Share section, you can view the drawings and
goals for life in the new millennium by others, and see if your local
library or museum is a Club Space Place partner.
        The Space Place is updated regularly with puzzles and games,
fun space facts and scientific exercises about the latest
breakthroughs and technology from current and future space missions.
The Space Place gives students the opportunity to fully explore the
universe from their computers or, in some areas, from their local
library or museum.

Nancy Leon
Education and Public Outreach Lead
NASA New Millennium Program
(818) 354-1067
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