HOU Curriculum Materials

HOU High School

The latest revision of HOU high school curriculum is A Changing Cosmos.

An electronic version of the HOU high school curriculum is now included with the Global Systems Science (GSS) series of books. You can see A Changing Cosmos on the GSS site.

Free software for use with A Changing Cosmos investigations is available at the SalsaJ software download page. Astronomical image sets for the software investigations are available at the GSS software download page.

HOU Middle School

The latest version of HOU middle school curriculum is Solar System Science.

PDF version of that book is available free on the HOU middle school page.

How To Get HOU in Your Classroom

Through Lawrence Hall of Science you can help sustain Hands-On Universe and Global Systems Science (books, website, software, and updates) in increments of $5. The online credit card payment page provides for purchase of licenses, but depending on your interests, you can think of that as:

License: $5/user or /student
Financial support (not tax-deductible) in increments of $5
Membership in increments of $5
(e.g. if you would like to have a $100 membership, simply choose twenty $5 licenses.)

Order online with credit card or with check/or school PO

From Kendall/Hunt Publisher you may order the 2009 Edition GSS CD-ROM, which is now included with the hard cover Global Systems textbook by John Christensen, for $69.99 each. The 2009 GSS CD-ROM may also be purchased alone for $57.99 each. Ask for a discount if you purchase in quantity. Order online from Kendall/Hunt Publisher. The 2009 edition CD includes:

12 GSS/HOU books as PDF files (2009 editions)
Digital Earthwatch software (2009 version for Mac and Windows)
Hands-On Universe Image Processing software
(2009 version—HOU IP 2.0, for Mac and Windows)
Complete image sets

Thank you for your interest in our program!