Students research Cape Canaveral in the Second Life website. In this Cape Canaveral lesson plan, students write a research paper on their findings.

Students identify the geographic and climatic characteristics of Florida that made it the best location for the space program. They describe how the space program affected the economy and growth of the eastern coast of Florida.

Curiosity is the desire to learn or know, and it is also the name of the rover that landed on Mars in 2012. Mohawk-sporting Bobak Ferdowsi, a NASA engineer also discusses how and why we study Mars. He provides facts about the rover and...

How did the manned space mission program progress? The presentation covers American space exploration from the Apollo missions through the International Space Station. 

Video clips show footage from the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, an anniversary of the disaster, a report from the shuttle commission, and information about astronaut Christa McAuliffe. Young academics also learn how events like the...

In this internet research instructional activity, students answer ten unrelated questions by using the Fact Monster search engine. A sample question asks: "Achilles, one of the strongest heroes in Greek mythology, met his death when he...

Middle schoolers read and edit fifteen sentences by adding commas in the correct places. The focus of the mini-lesson is using commas with dates and geographic units.

In this momentum instructional activity, students will calculate the maximum forward momentum of the Apollo 11 lunar spacecraft at three different stages of its space travel.

In this ion propulsion worksheet, students read about Deep Space I that uses ion propulsion to power the spacecraft. They learn about ion propulsion and answer three questions about it.

For this Ares 1-X launch worksheet, students read about the path of this rocket's launch and solve 2 problems. Students find the number of seconds it took the rocket to fall from a given altitude and they determine how far from the...

For this rocket launch worksheet, students solve 3 problems about the Ares 1X rocket and its launch, trajectory, and motion in both the vertical and horizontal direction.

Maps, globes, and computer software aid young explorers as they locate state capitols, major cities, geographic features, and attractions for states they are researching. They then use desktop publishing software to create a map to share...

In this online interactive geography worksheet, students examine a map of Florida and identify the 12 noted cities on the map using a pull down menu within 3 minutes.

In this newspaper worksheet, students read 4 excerpts from a newspaper and identify each one as: news, sports, editorial or advertisement.

In this online interactive grammar skills activity, students respond to 10 fill in the blank questions regarding the use of prepositions.

Students explore space. In this current events instructional activity, students visit selected websites to learn about NASA, Mars, the Seti Institute, and space exploration terminology. Students make space glossaries and their own...

Students explore Apollo 11 and imagine that they are one of the astronauts who landed on the moon. In this science lesson plan, students view a slide show, to be made by the teacher, including Apollo programs up to 11. Students write a...

Middle schoolers examine the events that led to the United States sending a man to the moon. Using the Apollo project, they examine the work that it took to make this happen. They review arguments for preserving historic sites related...

Young scholars use whale migration patterns to determine sex and age of whales and determine where these whales can be located during different seasons. They use mapping skills to plot the migration patterns of four unknown whales.

Students read an article and discuss it.  In this Mars rover activity students complete an activity that allows them to see things through a different viewpoint.