New Hampshire Frameworks Correlations
SkyServer 
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey plans to create a digital map of the Universe. As it works towards that goal, it has created SkyServer. Using the tools at this site you can access all publicly available data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey including images, spectra, and photometric data. In addition you will find resources for students and teachers as well as games and projects.
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Science: Science, Technology, and Society
Curriculum Standard 2a
Students will demonstrate an increasing ability to use measuring instruments to gather accurate and/or precise information.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade ten students will be able to:
- Describe ways in which technology has improved measuring instruments and their accuracy.
Science: Earth/Space Science
Curriculum Standard 4a
Students will demonstrate an increasing ability to understand that the Earth is a unique member of our solar system, located in a galaxy, within the universe.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade six students will be able to:
- Compare and contrast important features of the Earth, Sun and Moon.
- Explain how the brightness of a star as seen from Earth is related to its size, color, and distance from the Earth.
- Use a telescope to magnify the appearance of some distant objects in the sky.
- State the type of information which can be gathered by the use of scientific instruments such as telescopes, satellites, etc.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade ten students will be able to:
- Use a model to describe the location and motion of the Earth and its Moon in the solar system.
- Identify the other planets in the solar system on a diagram or in the night sky, and describe their motions, as well as the motion of the planetary moons and comets.
- Describe the current scientific theory relating to the origin and geologic evolution of the Earth and the solar system.
- Draw inferences from celestial and terrestrial observations relating frames of reference for time and Earth motion.
