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Begin your exploration of the revolution in astronomy with some material from an astronomy course at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville -- on the Old Astronomy and the Copernican Revolution.
Extend your exploration of the Scientific Revolution with the Galileo Project maintained by Rice University.
Another fascinating site, the NASA Observatorium, gives you simulations to demonstrate Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion--don't try this at home (unless you have a fast modem connection or broadband)!
If you can't get this to work--try the nice
Kepler page from the University of Tennessee.
The key sciences of the early Scientific Revolution were astonomy and physics. You should bring to your section two or three paragraphs in which you report on the key issues in these sciences that led to revolutionary change (indicate just where you found the most useful discussion in your Web exploration). Incorporate a discussion of Galileo and one other figure from the 16th or early 17th centuries.