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Overcoming Obstacles

Who Are You?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Personal involvement in any class is essential! That's the takeaway from the first activity in the Getting Started module. Class members participate in games to learn each other's names and details. The goal is to create an atmosphere...
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Curated OER

Living in Space

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore space science by viewing a video in class. In this astronaut lesson, students identify the living habits of astronauts by researching the NASA website and observing a space science video in class. Students participate in...
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NASA

Space Shuttle Glider

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Your charges will enjoy putting together this model of the space shuttle and completing the three challenge activities described in the lesson plan. The worksheets embedded in the plan that pupils use to cut out their gliders are...
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Curated OER

Children's Literature Across the Curriculum Ideas-Challenger: America's Space Tragedy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students read Challenger: America's Space Tragedy by MichaelD. Cole. They complete a variety of cross-curricular activities surrounding the study of the Challenger space shuttle tragedy. Included are reading, art, math, science, writing,...
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Curated OER

Negative Space People

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learning about negative space can help kids see things in a whole new way. They use negative space and bright, primary colors to create an image of people in action. Each of the four squares will contain a single negative-space person...
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University of Colorado

Spacecraft Speed

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Space shuttles traveled around Earth at a speed of 17,500 miles per hour, way faster than trains, planes, or automobiles travel! In the 13th installment of 22, groups graph different speeds to show how quickly spacecraft move through...
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PHET

Radiation Hazards in Space

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scientists race from Earth to Mars and back, trying to complete mission objectives while avoiding radiation in this game for 2-4 players. To identify the winner, players must graph their mission points and radiation points at the...
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Curated OER

Reading and Writing about the Solar System

For Teachers K - 2nd
A superb interdisciplinary approach highlights this lesson which incorporates space science knowledge and narrative skills. After reading The Magic School Bus, two excellent poems, and watching a video, all about our solar system, young...
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Printables
Purple Martin Press

Pen Pal Template: Hello!

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Corresponding with pen pals just got easier with this simple writing template. Including sentence frames and space for drawing pictures, this is a fun resource that introduces young learners to writing personal letters.
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Curated OER

2003: A Space Tragedy

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars examine the facts and logistics connected to the space shuttle Columbia tragedy and present at a teach-in on the incident. February 3, 2003)
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Interactive
Curated OER

Personal Management: merit badge

For Students 5th - 12th
In this personal management learning exercise, students fill out short answer questions using their workbook about personal management in order to get a merit badge. Students complete 10 questions total.
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EngageNY

First-Person Computer Games

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
How do graphic designers project three-dimensional images onto two-dimensional spaces? Scholars connect their learning of matrix transformations to graphic design. They understand how to apply matrix transformations to make...
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Curated OER

Space Jam Dilemma/Dance

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Do the "Space Jam" Dance! A dance that is made up of basketball skills movements, such as: dribbling, defending with hands up, pivoting, shooting, and slam dunks. The dance step descriptions are very well written out with cues for...
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Novelinks

The Devil’s Arithmetic: Personal Narrative Assignment

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
How can an unfamiliar place help you learn something about yourself? Use a narrative writing prompt as you culminate your unit on Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic. Kids consider the ways that, like the main character from the novel,...
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Printables
Curated OER

Conversation Visual Prompts

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
Help learners understand the importance and proper placement of non-verbal communication using these visual prompts. This set includes graphics to remind students to listen (ear), keep personal space (ruler), use the right facial...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Science: Space Quiz

For Students 4th - 5th
In this science:  space quiz worksheet, students answer twenty questions, not interactively, about outer space, then scroll down to find the answers.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Grammatical Person: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Person

For Students 4th - 6th
In this grammatical person: first, second, and third person worksheet, learners determine the speaker/participants relationship. Students use a chart to identify grammatical person in seventeen sentences.
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Curated OER

Creative Dance - Element of Space

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders perform and demonstrate locomotor and non-locomotor movements, while using various dance pathways and levels, incorporating the element of space.
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Messenger Education

Dangers of Radiation Exposure

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Gamma radiation, which is harmful, is useful in treating cancers. In the second lesson in a series of four, young scientists take surveys and calculate their yearly exposure to ionizing radiation. Then they read about how harmful their...
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Writing
Brigham Young University

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle: Biopoem

For Teachers 7th - 8th Standards
Conclude your novel study of The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi with this biopoem activity. Get an in-depth look into the personal interests of the poem's subject including feelings, needs, fears, and more!  
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Curated OER

Outerspace: Frontier for Personal Health and Hygiene

For Teachers K - 5th
Students view photos of astronauts sleeping, eating, bathing, and using the toilet, and discuss hygiene problems in a zero-gravity environment. They contrast hygiene habits in space to those on Earth, and create storybooks illustrating...
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Curated OER

Space Shuttle Simulator

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discuss the space shuttle and its parts. They vote on a class symbol to be placed on their models of the space shuttle. Students build a model of the space shuttle. They discuss the different media that they will use and...
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Curated OER

Building a Permanent Human Presence in Space

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars tudy space and what it takes to be an explorer.  In this space explorer lesson students examine the characteristics of explorers and create an exploration log. 
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Curated OER

Doctor Mae C. Jemison - First African American Woman in Space

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders trace and analyze the life of Doctor Mae C. Jemison and the circumstances that enabled Dr. Jemison to achieve her goal of becoming an astronaut. They explore the role of NASA in the development of America's Space Shuttle...

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