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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.
NASA provides several sites to explore planetary motion, including some simulations of Kepler's laws. Check out the presentation on the Earth Observatory site (be sure to follow to the next page on this site) as well as the simulations on Goddard Spaceflight Center's Imagine the Universe site.
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.