Students create friendship bracelets and quilt squares. For this plant lesson student dye their own string and cotton material with plant pigments. Students use the naturally dyed materials to create the friendship bracelets and quilt...

Students discuss being a friend and sing songs about friendship.  In this friendship lesson, students listen to When Turtle Grew Feathers.  Students  answer questions about the friends in the story. Students discuss the...

Students explore placing a satellite into orbit, then about forces needed to keep an object in orbit. They examine how satellites orbit in elliptical paths and about properties of ellipses. They learn Kepler's 3rd Law of Planetary Motion

Students investigate the process of constructing a bridge. They study the meaning of structural force and draw pictures of examples. Students identify the types of building materials have been used in history to construct bridges and how...

Online exhibit that celebrates the flight of Friendship 7 manned by astronaut, John Glenn.

The story of America's first astronaut to orbit the earth during the Mercury Space program. After launching the program click on continue or on the numbers to learn about the story of the Mercury program and the first American to orbit...

This site from NASA provides a detailed description of the events immediately preceding the first American in orbit mission of the Mercury spacecraft Friendship 7.

This site from NASA provides a detailed description of events following the successful 3 Earth orbit mission of the Friendship 7 Mercury spacecraft.

This Scholastic website offers information about space exploration. Use this site to learn about specific missions like the Friendship, Apollo 11, and STS 7. Also Dr. Mae Jemison is featured and interviewed.

The official transcription of John Glenn's in-flight communication with Mission Control during his orbit around the earth in 1962.

Information on Mercury 6, the first American manned orbital space mission.

This site has the history of space travel. Includes President Kennedy's speeches on the Apollo program that can be downloaded. Many graphics, and a very complete history of space travel with links to more detailed information.

This resource offers a chronology of John Glenn from his birth in 1921 to the present, including important events from his early spaceflights, his political career, and his return to space on board the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1998.

Use this site to learn about John Glenn's accomplishments as a U.S. Marine, astronaut, and senator. This article includes links to further related information on Glenn as well as brief excerpts from the "My Hero Guestbook" in which...

An open-source encyclopedic site containing the biography of astronaut John Glenn discusses his many accomplishments and contributions to the space program.