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Astronaut Diet
Middle schoolers discover foods that astronauts eat in space and eat an actual astronaut meal. In this astronaut diet lesson, students discover how food is freeze-dried and packaged for use in space. Middle schoolers compare an...
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An Astronaut's Journal: Snacks and Beverages
In this snack and beverage worksheet, students place a check beside all the words that can complete the 10 sentences logically.
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Lunch in Outer Space!
Students 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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An Astronaut's Journal: Snacks and Beverages
In this completing sentences worksheet, students fill in the blank in ten sentences by checking all the words that can complete the sentence logically.
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Mission Meals
Students calculate the basal metabolic needs of astronauts. In this food preservation lesson, students take on the role of a NASA nutritionist to create a diet for an astronaut. Students create a meal plan for a week to maintain enough...
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Worksheet 7. Food Categories
In this nutrition worksheet, students analyze 2 typical menus for astronauts. They then complete the food chart at the bottom of the page using the components of the astronaut menus.
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Reading: Living in Space
In this living in space reading worksheet, students read a passage about life on the International Space Station written by a former astronaut. Students then answer 6 multiple choice questions.
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People and Space
Students explore space travel. In this space science activity, students define "dehydration" and explain why dehydrated foods are necessary for space survival. Students prepare and eat a meal that includes a variety of dehydrated foods.
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Ripening of Fruits and Vegetables
How long do fresh foods last in space at the International Space Station? Which foods perish quicker than others? How can astronauts preserve their foods to make them last longer in space? Young scientists test the rates at which some...
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Mission Meals
Students engage in a investigation of the types of meals that astronauts eat in space while examining the types of nutritional elements needed for optimum physical tasks in space. They are given different foods and then document the...
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Space Food
What do astronauts eat in outer space? Kids can read an informational passage to learn about space food. The passage includes prompts that have learners identify the main idea and key details, then write a paragraph summarizing the text....
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Digestive System
Students analyze how the digestive system works by taking the food we eat and breaking it down for our bodies to use for various reasons. They list the major components of the digestive system and draw a diagram. They explain how...
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Classifying Space Food
Students write a written summary of what they have learned about the astronaut nutritional diet in comparison with their own diet habits.
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Are U Still Nuts?
In this unit conversion worksheet, students solve 3 problems using conversion factors to find the given measurements in the new unit of measurement.
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Living In Space
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a short text about living in space. Students then answer 6 multiple choice questions about the story.