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Here are some great Internet sites to go and explore.  Just don't forget to come back soon!

SPACE
Arty, the part-time astronaut (www.artyastro.com)
Earth and Sky (www.earthsky.com)
Goddard Space Flight Center (http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Heavens Above (www.heavens-above.com)
International Space Station (www.spaceflight.nasa.gov)
NASA Homepage (www.nasa.com)
NASA Kid’s site (http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov)
NASA Space Place (http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov)
National Geographic Society (www.nationalgeographic.com)
Sky and Telescope (www.skyandtelescope.com)
Space.com (www.space.com)
Star Date (www.stardate.org)
US Naval Observatory, moon phases (http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/moon_phases.html)

TRAINS
AmTrak (www.AmTrak.com)
Davis Hobby Shop, Portsmouth (www.davishobby.com)
Lionel Trains (www.lionel.com/centralstation/findex.cfm)
MTH Electric Trains (www.mth-railking.com)
Railroading in the North East (www.northeast.railfan.net)
Railroad Museums and Attractions (www.railsusa.com/museums.shtml)
Tidewater O Gauge Association (www.togatrainclub.com/pages/889235/index.htm)
Toy Train Collectors Association (www.traincollectors.org)

EDUCATIONAL SITES
Education Planet (www.educationplanet.com)
Elementary School Lesson Plans (www.csun.edu/~vceed009/lesson.html)
Elizabeth River Project (www.elizabethriver.org)
Franklin Institute (www.fi.edu/learning.html)
Lesson Plans and Ideas (http://www.lessonplanz.com/gradelevels.shtml)
Science Education (www.spacegrant.hawaii.edu)
Virginia Department of Education Site (www.pen.k12.va.us)
Virginia Science Teacher’s Links for Earth and Space Education (www.vast.org/esast.html)

OTHER CHILDREN'S MUSEUMS
Amazement Square (www.amazementsquare.org)

Association of Children's Museums (www.childrensmuseums.org)
Chicago Children's Museum (www.chichildrensmuseum.org)
The Children's Museum of Boston (www.bostonkids.org)
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (www.omsi.edu)
Richmond Children's Museum (www.c-mor.org)
Shenandoah Discovery Museum (www.discoverymuseum.net)
Virginia Discovery (www.vadm.org)

OTHER MUSEUMS
Nauticus (www.nauticus.org)
San Francisco’s Exploratorium (www.exploratorium.edu)
Science Museum of Virginia (www.smv.org/prog/tools.html)
Virginia Air and Space Center (www.vasc.org)
Virginia Marine Science Museum (www.vmsm.com/index.shtml)

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