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Nasa: Using Scrapbooks in Science Educator Guide

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Teachers can use this guide to encourage students to make science scrapbooks. Includes many examples and an activity guide.
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Nasa: Engineering Design Challenges: Thermal Protection Systems Educator Guide

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This classroom activity teaches students to work in groups to design and build a thermal protection system simulating one on a space vehicle. Provides background information, lesson plans, and assessment questions.
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Nasa Environmental Control and Life Support Systems Water Filtration Challenge

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This educator guide provides students with a challenge to design, build, and test a water filtration system, simulating what is used in a spacecraft. Includes background information, lesson plans, and extension activities.
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Nasa: Lunar Nautics: Design Mission to Live & Work on Moon Educator Guide

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This guide provides students the opportunity to simulate working at an aerospace company. Activities include designing a lunar lander and robot, building spacecraft, and much more.
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Nasa: Getting Dirty on Mars

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This educator's guide provides students with the opportunity to simulate collecting, testing, and examining soil samples from Mars. Includes background information, lesson plans, and content standards.
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Nasa: Mars and Earth: Science Learning Activities for Afterschool

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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: Planetary Geology

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This unit teaches students about the forces that shape planets and help them to evolve. Lessons provide background information and assessments.
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Nasa: Engineering Design Challenges: Spacecraft Structures Educator Guide

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This detailed educator's guide provides a lesson in designing the structure of a spacecraft. The design challenge contains pre-lab activities and instructions for how to test the models.
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Nasa: Space Math I

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This educator's guide provides students with the opportunity to solve mathematical problems related to space science. Includes space background information, lesson plans, and answer keys.
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Nasa: Our Solar System Lithograph Set

For Students 9th - 10th
View a lithograph set that includes pictures and brief descriptions of planets, sun, asteroids, comets, meteors, and meteorites. While viewing the lithograph learn important dates and interesting facts about our solar system.
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Nasa: Rockets Educator Guide: How Rockets Work

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this article, learn how rockets work. Discover Newton's Law of Motion and learn how it supports rocketry.
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Nasa: Rockets Educator Guide: A Pictorial History

For Students 3rd - 8th
View pictures, descriptions, and dates of rockets throughout history. Learn about rockets and how they have evolved throughout time.
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Nasa: Living With a Star

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This NASA educator's guide provides teachers with activities, resources, and materials to educate students about the Sun.
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Nasa: Bibliography on Martian Exploration

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from NASA provides a selected Annotated Bibliography on Martian Exploration presents classical Mars reading material from Percival Lowell and Alfred Russel Wallace from the turn of the last century, Werner von Braun and Willy...
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Nasa: The Space Place: Lisa Space Mission Gives Humans a Sixth Sense

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explains NASA's plan to engineer a space probe that could measure the gravitational waves that Einstein predicted exist in space. Learn more about this space probe named LISA. There is also a crossword to check your...
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Nasa: The Space Place: Lisa Space Mission Gives Humans a Sixth Sense

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource explains NASA's plan to engineer a space probe that could measure the gravitational waves that Einstein predicted exist in space. Learn more about this space probe named LISA. There is also a crossword to check your...
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Nasa: Vector Addition by the Numerical Method

For Students 9th - 10th
A lab experiment involving readily available materials. Students analyze three forces acting upon one point to determine the resultant force. Questions and accompanying answers are provided.
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Nasa Star Child: The Solar System

For Students 3rd - 5th
Discover information about parts of the Solar System, along with definitions just by clicking on highlighted vocabulary terms. Be sure to try the "Solar System Activities" to review the material from these pages.
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Nasa Earth Observatory: Land Cover Classification

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the important resources our land offers us: food, water, oxygen, building materials, and more. Discover how scientists have been mapping land for years trying to prevent disasters and to collect environmental information.
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Nasa: The Air We Breathe Picture Book

For Students K - 1st
This colorful picture book is designed to introduce students to Earth's atmosphere, and to help them understand its importance to life on Earth.
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Nasa: Is There Water on Mars?

For Students 9th - 10th
This educator guide allows teachers and students to explore whether or not there is water on Mars. Download this PDF file and use activities to help explore Mars.
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Nasa: Nearside of the Moon: Apollo Landing Sites

For Students 9th - 10th
This photo of the moon shows the landing sites for Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17.
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Nasa: Classroom Activity: Our Very Own Star: The Sun

For Students K - 1st Standards
This PDF storybook for children tells the story of the sun. The easy-to-understand text and graphics make it a useful classroom tool for younger students.
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Live From Earth & Mars [Nasa]: Danger in the Air

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Live from Earth & Mars [NASA] is a lesson plan using both interactive and written materials. Can be used as a unit or individually.

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