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Air
Powered Rockets & Launchers [3-12]
Building
and flying rockets is an exciting and educational way to introduce
students of any age to aerospace education, this lesson provides
suggested guidelines for students to produce cheap, safe, and
reusable paper rockets that can be used to demonstrate both
physical science principles as well as mathematical concepts.
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Fish
in Space [See Documents]
Looking
for a great middle school motivator? In 1994, Japanese
killifish, Medaka (Oryzias latipes) mated, laid eggs,
and had babies in space. Can a Fish Swim in Space?
uses the science from this experiment to bring alive
the scientific processes and concepts needed to send
a living system to space. Great for teaching scientific
method, resoning, problem solving, and life science
concepts. To find out more click [here].
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Human
Space Flight [See Documents]
Ever
wanted to know what it's really like in space?
Find out with these personal astronaut accounts
of the human experience of space flight. To
find out more click [here]. |
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Introduction
to Gravity [5-12]
Students
often have a number of persistent misconceptions
related to gravity. These prior beliefs
make teaching concepts of how gravity
works very difficult. This series of
activities is designed to identify
and address these misconception. The
overall structure of this module is
based on the 5-E’s model of Engage,
Explain, Explore, Expand and Evaluate. To
find out more click [here].
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Plate
Tectonics [7-12]
Teachers
and students will engage in a series
of hands-on investigations involving
characteristics and locations of earthquakes
and volcanoes, and their relationship
to Earths crustal plates, plate
movement, subduction zones, and ocean-floor
spreading. To find out more click [here]. |
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SEi
Interactives [5-12]
Online
interactive simulations for your classroom.
Gravity, Planet Comparision, and Moon
Phases are fully functional learning
guides for your students.To find out
more click [here].
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Solar
System [5-12]
Our
Solar System lies in a region of the
Universe called the Milky Way galaxy
and is just one of many systems of
stars and planets scattered throughout
the Universe. Our Solar System is home
to a diversity of objects from icy
clumps of dust to mammoth balls of
gas. To
find out more click [here]. |
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The
Seasons [5-12]
The
Seasons is an education module
that has been designed for middle school
students. The module provides unique
perspectives and strategies in its
study of the seasons, and engages students
in a variety of standards-based activities
through a customized learning cycle. To
find out more click [here].
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Top
Ten Places in the Solar System [5-12]
Dr.
Aileen Yingst is the Director of the
Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium at
the University of Wisconsin - Green
Bay. Dr. Yingst is also Space Explorers,
Inc.'s lead scientist. She is currently
conducting research on the geology
of the Moon and Mars. The following
locations are Dr. Aileen Yingst's top
ten most interesting places in the
Solar System! To find out more click [here]. |
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Up,
Up, and Away [4-12]
Hot-Air
Balloons are an exciting and uplifting
way to integrate science, engineering,
art, and literature into one project
that teaches physical science standards.
This guide will show you how you to have
your students learning, building, and
launching paper hot-air balloons as part
of a two week unit. To find out more
click [here].
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