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Curated OER

Paper Airplane Throw

For Teachers K - 5th
Students practice their throwing overhand skill with an emphasis on the cue of "stepping with the opposite foot." The teacher could use activities of focusing on stepping with the opposite foot prior to this one for help of mastering the...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Effect of Moisture on Soil Temperature

For Teachers K - 12th
Students analyze the relationship between soil moisture and its effect on soil temperature.
Lesson Plan
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Rock'n Robin

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students wall line dance given specific steps given to them by the teacher.
Lesson Plan
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Environmental Education

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders examine how their choices affect the environment. They identify different types of pollution and its source. They ask questions to end the lesson.
Lesson Plan
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Amazing -- Saturn Is So Far Away!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students work together to create a scale model of the distances between the planets. They write a paragraph to describe Saturn and their make-believe trip to the planet. They identify other characteristics of Saturn as well.
Lesson Plan
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Spell Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students work on their spelling skills by spelling a word to get unfrozen if tagged.
Lesson Plan
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Life Without Flight

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students keep a journal for an intire week recording their observations of the ways aircraft affect society, The students discuss their findings and categorize them into areas such as military, commercial, research, and so on.
Article
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Astronauts in Hard Hats: Challenges of Working in Space

For Students 9th - 10th
This media-rich series of interviews from the NOVA: "Stationed in the Stars" Web site explores the unique challenges faced by astronauts doing construction work in outer space.
eBook
Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Earth and Sky: Would You Step Out Into Space?

For Students 1st - 2nd
Imagines what it is like to travel to space and what you can see through the window of a spacecraft. Book includes audio narration in 14 additional languages with text in English.
Interactive
Other

University of Southern California: Spacewalk

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive game is available for free download. Players are meant to be together in the same vicinity. In the game, players explore the International Space Station and leave it to take a walk in space.
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Astronaut Gene Cernan Speaks About Working in Space

For Students 9th - 10th
In this audio resource from NOVA: "To the Moon," astronaut Gene Cernan recounts his harrowing experience during America's first attempt to do work in outer space.
PPT
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Education: Walk on the Moon

For Students 9th - 10th
This online lesson helps students explore primary sources, including photographs and audio and video recordings, in order to learn about the Apollo crew and spacecraft, the history of the space race, and the incredible technological...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Walk, Run, Jump!

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this activity, students participate in a series of timed relay races using their skeletal muscles. The compare the movement of skeletal muscle and relate how engineers help astronauts exercise skeletal muscles in space.
Website
Other

We Choose the Moon

For Students 9th - 10th
Feel like you were right there when Apollo 11 was launched as you listen to the actual Mission Control audio from that date. The mission is further brought to life by photos and video of the event as well as a virtual animation. Go...
Website
Kidport

Kidport: The Moon Landing

For Students 3rd - 5th
Travel back in history and see the first men on the moon. See photos of the crew, the launch, the landing and more.
Graphic
Other

Everytrail: Trail Map of San Andreas Fault Trail Exploration

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this map on the San Andreas Fault by following lines of posts that mark the various fault breaks in the Los Trancos Open Space Preserve. The trail takes hikers to see some of the effects of earthquakes in this otherwise tranquil...
Graphic
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Science Kids: Science Images: Buzz Aldrin on the Moon

For Students 9th - 10th
A NASA photo of American astronaut Buzz Aldrin as he walks on the moon in his spacesuit.