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Recreating A Mission
Students role-play a satellite recovery mission. They explain and appreciate the complexity and planning involved in carrying out a shuttle mission.
Teach Engineering
Get Me Off This Planet
What do Newton's Laws have to do with getting from Earth to Mars?The activities in this resource show how Newton's Laws work with rockets to get them into space. Background information includes facts about orbits and how orbits...
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Space-Age Experiments
Learners evaluate the notion of aging by reviewing some of the studies that occurred on John Glenn's space shuttle mission.
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Crashed On the Moon
Students compare/contrast the environments of our moon and earth, and examine examples of how these differences would affect their daily activities on our moon. They develop lists of emergency supplies to bring if their spaceship crashed...
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Basketball Shuttle Run
I would use this basketball shuttle run activity as one of several drills in a days lesson. There are several components to the drill and some lead up activities could be done before the basketball shuttle run. I would suggest a basic...
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Spaceship Commander Tag
Students participate in a gross motor and locomotor game of tag. A group of students, spaceship commanders, work together to capture all of the "aliens" in the class while wearing hula hoops and practicing a variety of locomotor movements.
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Apollo Moon Landing
Students explore paper rockets, learn about the Apollo Program and Apollo spin-offs, and use simple office supplies to design and create a new useful product. This amazing plan is incredibly well written and leads students through a...
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Exploration of Mars
Students explore the three-phase strategy used by NASA for scientific exploration. In this space science lesson, students research past missions to Mars. They share their discoveries and create a timeline as a class.
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The Ultimate Field Trip
Students view a video to understand the set-up of the shuttle aircraft. In this shuttle instructional activity, students recognize the functions of parts of the space ship and why they are important. Students research the shuttle and...
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Not So Lost in Space
Students investigate how engineers navigate satellites in orbit around the Earth and on their way to other planets in the solar system. They study vocabulary words and participate in studying a satellite by learning about times and...
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Rocketry
Students design and construct a paper rocket that can be launched with a drinking straw. They participate in a lecture and read an article about rocketry and how Newton's Third Law applies to rocket launches. Each student constructs...
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Space Trading Cards
Students use the Internet and other reference sources to gather information on a space topic. They create a trading card displaying the information learned and import pictures from libraries and the Internet.
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Space Quiz
In this space worksheet, students complete a five question multiple choice on-line interactive quiz about the American space program.
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Spaceship Math Multiplication W
In this multiplication facts worksheet, learners sharpen their math skills as they solve 40 questions that require them to multiply 1-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers.
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Spaceship Math Multiplication U
In this multiplication facts activity, students sharpen their math skills as they solve 40 questions that require them to multiply 1-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers.
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Investigating Falling Particles
Students investigate the characteristics of a clay ball. In this particles lesson students examine what happens to a ball of clay when it is dropped from different heights.
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Blast's Cosmic Carnival
Pupils, after analyzing the history of a concentrator, model how a Genesis spacecraft concentrator works by playing a game. In groups of three or four, after being given materials to work with, are challenged to roll the rubber balls so...
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Eyes in the Sky
Students complete a unit on orbiting spacecraft designed to study astronomical objects. They conduct Internet research on NASA missions, use a satellite dish to downlink information, and construct and launch a rocket out of paper and tape.
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MAPPING THE TOPOGRAPHY OF UNKNOWN SURFACES
Students describe in words and graphic displays the elevation or depression profile of sections of Mars' Olympus Mons and/or Valles Marineris. They explain how orbiting spacecraft build up global maps one data slice at a time.
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What is Momentum?
In this momentum learning exercise, students will calculate the maximum forward momentum of the Apollo 11 lunar spacecraft at three different stages of its space travel.
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How Do Things Fall?
Students study forces by examining the force of gravitational attraction. They observe how objects fall and measure the force of gravitational attraction upon objects. Students discover that, since gravitational constants are different...
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A Mission-To-Mars Quiz
In this space exploration instructional activity, students complete a 6 question multiple choice on-line interactive exercise about the exploration of Mars.
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Lift Off with Rockets!
Students obtain information concerning rockets and the use of them in space, create their own rocket on the computer with the graphic choices on the website www.goobo.com, and write descriptive words or phrases to describe their rockets.
Messenger Education
Exploring Exploring
The reason people first began trading was because of their desires for objects other societies possessed. In the activity, classes discuss why exploration has been a common thread in all societies and where these desires have taken...