The Space Race saw the Soviet Union and the US go from competitors to partners. Scholars read a letter regarding the first docking of the US and Soviet space craft. Young historians also complete a written assignment and participate in...

Project Paperclip, the Redstone Arsenal, and the Huntsville Space Center are all featured in a resource that investigates the contributions of Dr. Werner von Brawn and other German scientists to the US space program....

High schoolers investigate the historical events that have surrounded The Space Race. They conduct research using a variety of resources and focus upon the progress between Russia and The United States. Students describe the events that...

Students identify the challenges encountered by astronauts in operating a planetary rover. For this space science lesson, students create a rover using their team members. They follow a command sequence from the driver and navigate...

Students use the Internet to find events in space history to include in a timeline. They recognize the cause and effect relationships between events that happened in the exploration of space. They see how to use the TimeLiner software.

Students conduct an experiment about air volume, density, and pressure. In this air lesson, students discuss air, and how it moves. They make predictions about what will happen during the balloon and string experiment. They document the...

Students work with a partner using the Internet to find the answers to a web quest about space exploration. They work in cooperative groups to discuss information and evaluate its importance to space exploration.

Neither rain nor snow nor heat nor gloom may keep postal workers from delivering the mail, but is their livelihood sustainable? A question about the USPS makes up one of the three items in a series of free-response questions from the...

Second graders practice utilizing multiple tens frames and dice to race to fifty or one hundred. They calculate tens and ones to find out how many counters they have on their grid and how many more they need to get to fifty or one...

In this reasoning worksheet, 3rd graders read and analyze two sets of clues to figure out where 6 people will set on a spaceship in the first set of clues and which pet belongs to which person in the second set of clues.

Students discover the meaning of the word pioneer by using a variety of different activities. They are introduced to some of the pioneers of aviation in Ohio. They use coins and conduct research about some of the persons who accomplished...

Students examine the competition between the United States and Russia to put the first man in space. In groups, they use the internet to identify areas in which the two countries cooperated with one another to promote space exploration....

Tim Tyson's Blood Done Sign My Name is the anchor text in a unit study of the history of race relations and the civil rights struggle in the South. The 11 lessons are richly detailed, and the unit deserves a space in your curriculum...

What is the purpose of adverbial phrases? Find out what questions adverbial phrases answer with a instructional activity that focuses on grammar. As kids work through 16 sentences, they underline the phrases and use the space provided to...

Learners explore the transit of Venus and the information that this minieclipse provides about the distance between the Earth and the sun. They create their own astronomical units.

Learners examine how they use batteries, then read a news article about how cars are being designed to use batteries. In this current events lesson, the teacher introduces the article with a discussion and vocabulary activity, then...

Students practice addition facts, record data, and construct a bar graph. In this probability lesson, students participate in a board game in which bicycles move towards a finish line based on players completing addition problems. Dice...

Pupils work togeter and work on fitness by playing a game with 36 dome cones, 36 index cards, 6 jump ropes, tally sheets, 6 small clip boards and pencils, 6 hula hooops, and 6 regular cones.

Learners split into groups of three with one student standing inside a hula hoop at mid-court pretending to be Rudolph. The other two start at the starting cone and take turns riding the scooter, delivering one bean bag to Rudolph....

A table with abolitionists Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and William Lloyd Garrison provides space to note the race, motivation, and accomplishment of each. Scholars are instructed to write a paragraph about one they'd like to meet...

In this sunspots learning exercise, students observe two images taken by a solar observatory over a certain amount of time. Students determine the changes in the pictures and then calculate how fast and in what direction the particles...

Young scholars recognize the parts of a sentence while working on their locomotor skills. Students, in teams, race to words on index cards. The team collecting enough cards to create a complete sentence wins. Additional variations on...

Students categorize items into one of the three states of matter. They participate in a demonstration in which they represent particles of matter. Finally, they complete an experiment in which they "race" top see who can make acetone...

Students participate in a practice activity in which they must remember the order of the numbers 1-10 and then 10-20. In teams, they participate in a relay race in which they must place number cards in the correct order on a number line.