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Nasa: Space Food and Nutrition Educator Guide
The Space Food and Nutrition document, published by NASA, supplies teachers with lessons and activities to introduce students to space food and astronaut nutrition.
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Nasa: Adventures in Rocket Science Educator Guide
This NASA educator's guide provides teachers with an outline for teaching students about rocketry. There are many hands-on activities where students can learn about and build rockets.
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Nasa: Aeronautics Educator Guide
This NASA educator's guide provides teachers with an outline for teaching aeronautics activities. Through hands-on activities, students can learn all about flying.
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Nasa: Packing Up for the Moon Educator Guide
Use these lessons to help students understand more about the preparation it takes to go to the moon. Students will play an active part in decided what to take to the moon when given a specific objective. Includes PDF's (require Adobe...
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Nasa: Mars and Earth: Science Learning Activities for Afterschool
This set of activities teaches learners about the big picture of science using Mars as an example: how to collect data, use evidence, and look at models.
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Nasa: Optics: Light, Color, and Their Uses
Download this Educators Guide to light, color, and their uses. Choose from different activities using lenses, prisms, hidden messages, periscopes, and kaleidoscopes
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Nasa/msu Bozeman Center for Educational Resources (Ceres) Project
The CERES Project allows the nation's classroom teachers to develop "an extensive library of on-line and interactive K-12 science education materials for teaching astronomy." The site features latest news and photos from NASA,...
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Nasa: Material Analysis
Describes the use of alloys on the space shuttle, and how to analyze alloys using X-ray fluorescence.
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Pbs Learning Media: Why Do We Have Seasons?
Explore what causes seasons on Earth in this interactive adapted from NASA materials that features four cities at different latitudes. Use this resource to view how Earth's axial tilt causes seasons from different perspectives and to...
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Nasa Space Place: Dark Matter
Offers an explanation of dark matter and dark energy, material that scientists cannot directly observe.
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Nasa: Educator Features and Articles
K-12 educational articles, lesson plans, and other teaching materials on current NASA projects that meet national education standards. NASA generates awareness of students' interest in space, science, mathematics, geography, and...
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Nasa: Educator Features and Articles
K-12 educational articles, lesson plans, and other teaching materials on current NASA projects that meet national education standards. NASA generates awareness of students' interest in space, science, mathematics, geography, and...
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Nasa: Earth and Space Science Explorers Poster
This poster of NASA Earth and Space Science Explorers is great for classrooms.
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Nasa: Earth and Space Science Explorers Poster
This poster of NASA Earth and Space Science Explorers is great for classrooms.
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Nasa: Testing a New Spacecraft Material
This is a site from NASA that provides an activity where "You have invented a new material to use for the fuel tanks on the spacecraft. But before you send your new material into the harsh environment of space, you must test it on Earth...
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Nasa: Space Shuttle Glider
Assemble a basic scale model of the space shuttle as a hands-on activity. The activity features math-related concepts such as finding the scale of the paper model and the glide ratio of its flight.
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Nasa: Optics: Light, Color, and Their Uses
Download this Educators Guide to light, color, and their uses. Choose from different activities using lenses, prisms, hidden messages, periscopes, and kaleidoscopes
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Nasa: Rockets Educator Guide: Rocket Races
This lesson allows students to create their own rockets using foam trays and drinking straws that are powered by a balloon. Students will race their rockets on a track and determine why some rockets moved faster than others.
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Nasa: Investigating the Climate System: Clouds
This detailed lesson plan provides six different activities to enhance student knowledge about clouds. Also find links to educator guides about other space topics. Includes PDF (requires Adobe Reader).
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Nasa: Rockets Educator Guide: Applying Newton's Laws
Learn how Newton's Laws apply to rocketry. Discover how rockets work, including the engines and propellants.
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Nasa: Rockets Educator Guide: Pop Can "Hero Engine"
This lesson has learners make water propelled engines using pop drink cans. Students will test the effectiveness of the engines and determine anything that affects the action.
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Nasa: Rockets Educator Guide: 3, 2, 1, Puff!
This lesson plan gives directions for students to construct small, paper rockets that can be launched inside. The students will determine how stable the rocket is and launch them by blowing air through a straw.
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Nasa: Rockets Educator Guide: Newton Car
This lesson gives students direction on how to experiment using gravity and force. Students will make a wooden car and use different forces to make the car propel.
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Nasa: Rockets Educator Guide: Pop! Rocket Launcher
This lesson allows students to construct a rocket launcher that can be used for several different types of rockets. This rocket launcher is propelled by students stomping on a two liter bottle to provide force.