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Nasa: Exploration: Then and Now: Follow the Water Lesson
The objective of this lesson is for students to learn the location of water and the importance of water to life. Students will learn about osmosis, soil samples, salinity, and more.
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Nasa: X1 Paper Glider Kit
This lesson allows students to build their own paper gliders and change characteristics of the glider to make it fly easier.
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Nasa: Drag, Lesson 4
This video [12:28] shows how Newton's law of motion relates to the drag of an airplane. Watch as an instructor shows how the molecules colliding with the airplane create drag.
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Nasa: The Brain in Space
This educators guide shows students how the body's brain, spinal cord and network of nerves control the activities of animals and humans.
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Nasa: Moon Munchies Educator Guide
This educator guide provides teachers with an outline for the entire Moon Munchies unit. Students will be able to design and build a lunar plant growth chamber using the Engineering Design Process.
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Nasa: Cool Suits Activity
"Which color, black or white, reflect energy?" "Which color absorbs energy better?" Through this activity, students will find the answers to these questions, and they will then be able to relate their findings to the construction of...
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Nasa: 3, 2, 1, Liftoff! Educator Guide
These activities introduce students to the International Space Station and how rockets were vital to its construction. The provided lessons correlate to all subject areas.
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Nasa: Food for Spaceflight Activity
This educator's guide provides teachers with activities to teach students about food during spaceflights. Students will learn about types of food astronauts take on space missions and why these foods are the most suitable for space.
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Nasa: Using Scrapbooks in Science Educator Guide
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
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
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
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
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
This set of activities teaches students 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...