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Dream Big
Students discuss the success of privately built and flown space crafts by reading and discussing a news article. They develop adventure trip proposals to present to Sir Richard Branson. Students write essays reflecting on the importance...
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Making a Comet in the Classroom
Students study comets and how Halley's comet was created. In this space lesson students create their own comets using dry ice.
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Far Out Food and Work in Space
Students discuss aspects of living and working in space as astronauts, as well as other careers in space science. They demonstrate their understanding of the food guide pyramid by designing a healthy food tray for an astronaut.
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Lunch in Outer Space!
Learners explore the challenges astronauts face while eating in outer space. In small groups, they design and construct an original model device to assist astronauts eat in a microgravity environment.
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It's a Matter of Space
Students explore matter. In this physical science instructional activity, students role play the 3 states of matter forming "liquid" molecules and "solid" molecules with teammates. Students perform an experiment in which the result...
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The Science of Sleep and Daily Rhythms: Sleeping in Space
Students write about strange places that they have slept. In this sleep science lesson students read about astronauts sleeping experience in space. They reflect on unusual places that they have slept and write about it.
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Rocket Science
Students conduct an experiment. In this physical science lesson, students learn about Isaac Newton's theory that for every action there is an equal but opposite reaction. Students show this theory by looking at how a rocket is propelled...
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Reflect on this Mote of Dust
Learners explore space science by analyzing a speech by Carl Sagan. For this cosmos lesson, students view an online video of a speck of a "pale blue dot" in the distance of space which turns out to be Earth. Learners write an essay...
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Special Edition: World Space Congress 2002: The New Face of Space
Learners experience and study how space offers expanding resources for commerce, science, technology and education. They view how advances in space can and do improve life on Earth. Each student views a geological exploration within this...
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Can Plants Be Grown in Space?
Students investigate finding a solution to growing plants in space. They define key vocabulary terms, conduct an experiment growing plants, explore various websites, and participate in a live video conference with NASA regarding the...
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Mission Survival
Learners determine ways to survive the extreme conditions of Antarctica. In this space and earth sciences lesson, students work as a group to determine how to survive after a plane crash in Antarctica. They relate survival in Antarctica...
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Navigation and Trajectory
Middle schoolers prepare a creative demonstration of how Earth and Mars revolve around the Sun. In this astronomy lesson, students determine the different challenges engineers face when building spacecrafts. They draw possible paths for...
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Text Structures in Science Writing
Students recognize that science writing is organized in identifiable patterns called text structures. Understanding and using these different text structures help refine students' abilities to read and write in science.
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Searching for Life on Mars
Young scholars describe the environmental conditions in Mars. In this space science lesson plan, students draw a Martian critter based on a fictional story read to them. They identify the special features an organism must have to survive...
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Size and Shape
Young scholars observe different substances under the microscope. For this space science lesson, students identify the different features of SEM images. They formulate a conclusion about the images of Mars meteorites.
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The Universe Beyond
In this science activity, students use basic scientific concepts to complete the series of puzzles that are intended to increase science literacy about some of the common vocabulary used for the study of the universe.
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Student Exploration: H-R Diagram
In this space worksheet, learners use an internet program to explore space and then answer short answer questions about it. Students complete 28 short answer questions.
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Payload Rocket
Students continue their examination of how to make a human presence in space. Using Newton's Laws of Motion, they discover the difference a rocket's payload affects the launch of a rocket. They develop a balloon rocket and test its...
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Science Safari: Energy Resources
Young scholars discover how scientific methods are integral to the creation of energy. In this energy resources instructional activity, students follow the provided procedures to learn how science impacts energy production.
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The World Of Earth Science
In this science worksheet, students examine the topic in order to solidify knowledge covered in the curriculum using puzzles and creative games.
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Edible Mars Spacecraft
Fourth graders identify the Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Pathfinder and the rover, Sojourner.
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Taking Outer Space to Cyber Space
Use the Internet, write an expository text, and have students share their knowledge of the planets in our solar system. They compose an expository writing piece and publish it to a web page.
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Using a Graphic Organizer to Research a Question
Is Pluto still a planet? Using this popular question, kids are introduced to graphic organizers as a writing tool. As a class, they watch a demonstration on how to use them and work together with a partner to research whether Pluto is a...
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Science Questions
Explore the concept of generating questions. Your curious learners choose a scientific question from a bowl and, as they listen to an article being read, they use that question starter to come up with their own questions. Then, they have...
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