Curriculum Tools

We have made an effort to provide a large number of quality readings and lesson plans for your classroom; however, with such a large number of materials, we also want to make it easy for you to find just the right lesson or reading. Here we provide a few tools to find materials based on your curriculum needs. Use the links below to use these resources:

• Sortable Table of the Lessons
  This table lists all the Cosmic Times lessons with various fields, such as Grade Level, Cosmic Times Year and Cosmic Times article. The table can be sorted by any of the fields.


• National Educational Standards for the Cosmic Times Lessons
  These tables indicate which National Education Standards are met by each of the Cosmic Times Lesson Plans.
  • National Science Standards
  • National Language Arts and Social Studies Standards


• Keyword Clouds
  This page contains a "keyword cloud" for all of the articles and lessons in the Cosmic Times suite of materials. This cloud is a group of keywords, such as "redshift" or "spectra". Clicking on a keyword will bring you to a list of articles and lessons which match that keyword, and the size of the keyword as it appears in the "cloud" is related to the number of lessons or articles which match the keyword.


• Master Download Page
  This page contains all of the available downloads for all of the Cosmic Times issues, organized by Cosmic Times year.