Starry Night EDU 2.0
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Designed to be a solar system simulator and planetarium on a disk, this updated edition of Starry Night includes embedded user manuals and a teacher's guide, both of which are needed for figuring out this complex program. There are plenty of rich features. You can see the sky from anywhere on Earth, and view any solar system body, or any location up to 20,000 light years away. An auto-identification feature labels the constellations, and there is a database with millions of star coordinates. The accompanying teacher binder includes lesson plans correlated to National Space Science Standards. Visit www.starrynight.com for more details or a free trial. Note that although the program is marketed for K-8th grade, the content is far more suitable for 4th through 12th grades.
$59.95, Windows, Macintosh
Teaches: science, astronomy