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Chandra 101: Overview for Teachers and Students
No full textThis product provides basic information about topics pertaining to the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. The site offers information and links for those who wish to investigate further. Educational levels: High school, Undergraduate lower division, High school, Undergraduate lower division
Dancing Lights: Exploring Aurora through Art and Writing
No full textThis set of five activities and supporting teacher material allows students to explore the beauty, science and mythology of the aurora through art and writing. This standards-based, flexible “plug and play” program is based on research in bringing science into the literacy and art classroom. It can be used as a complete sequence of lessons of can be used as guidelines for teachers to develop their own activities. In addition to the program, we have designed a contest where students submit art and writing entries to the regional coordinator. A program facilitator’s guide, available on CD-Rom, provides a vehicle for national distribution to science centers, other NASA E/PO groups, and individual schools, districts or personnel. Details on how to effectively distribute the program and create a contest locally are included. Educational levels: Intermediate elementary, Informal education
GLAST Launch Fact Sheet
Get PDFThis four-page color brochure describes the science of NASA’s GLAST mission, as well as providing tables that summarize the instrumental parameters and the mission participants. Note: In 2008, the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) was renamed Fermi, for the physicist Enrico Fermi. Educational levels: General public
Space Math: Hinode Math
Get PDFThis booklet is a collection of 15 problems that incorporate data from the Hinode solar observatory. These problems cover topics in sunspot structure, spectroscopy, solar rotation, magnetic fields, density and temperature of hot gases, and solar flares. The math skills covered include finding the scale of an image to determine actual physical sizes in images, time calculations, volumes of cylinders, graph analysis, and scientific notation. Educational levels: Intermediate elementary, Middle school, High school
From Stargazers to Starships
No full textThis Web resource on astronomy, physics and space flight contains approximately 100 main files, written by a retired scientist, familiar with the field and its history. It is based on algebra and trigonometry (no calculus). The main collection contains four parts, each large enough for an independent course, on (1) Basic astronomy (2) Newtonian mechanics (3) Sun and related physics (4) Spacecraft and space flight. Also included are translations to Spanish, French, and (in progress) Italian, a mathematics course, teacher guidance, linked lesson plans, a timeline and glossary (both linked to the text), Q&A, approximately 100 problems to solve, and more. The goal has been to provide teachers and students with space-related material fitting the regular science curriculum (plus extensions). History serves as the framework, and the site includes related stories of discovery, tidbits, poems and experiments, also connections to technology, culture, and society. Educational levels: Middle school, High school
GLOBE Earth System Science Poster and Activity Guide
No full textThis poster includes activities using NASA satellite imagery from 2007 to guide students in understanding global patterns and connections related to the following topics: insolation, surface temperature, cloud fraction, rainfall, aerosols, and biosphere. The associated learning activities help students identifying connections between these components and identify global patterns. Educational levels: Middle school, High school
Space Thrills! Poster
No full textThis poster uses reading and writing activities to promote science learning. Students start with the lesson Meet Our Solar System and ponder the edge of our understandings in Solar System Mysteries. Teacher tips and resources and student activities are included. It is intended to arouse children-s curiosity about objects in the sky and space exploration and encourage basic awareness of and interest in our Solar System. It is aligned with NCTE standards for English Language Arts and National Science Education Standards. Educational levels: Primary elementary, Intermediate elementary
Elementary GLOBE: To Spread or Not To Spread
Get PDFA learning activity for the "Do You Know That Clouds Have Names?" book in the Elementary GLOBE series. Students will explore the difference between the three types of contrails, make observations of contrails outside, and record their observations. Fifteen minutes later they will make follow-up observations to see how the contrails they observed have changed. The purpose of the activity is to help students identify contrails and learn to distinguish between the three types of contrails and to understand that contrails are human-made and some contrails become clouds in the sky. Students will be able to (1) identify the three types of contrails; (2) understand that contrails are created by jet airplanes; and (3) understand that some contrails become clouds. Educational levels: Primary elementary, Intermediate elementary
Elementary GLOBE: Cloudscape
Get PDFA learning activity for the "Do You Know That Clouds Have Names?" book in the Elementary GLOBE series. Using information from the book and their observations, students construct a sky scene with trees and buildings as reference points on the ground and cloud types ordered by altitude in the sky. Students will describe clouds using their own vocabulary and will then correlate their descriptions with the standard classifications of cloud types used by the GLOBE Program. The purpose of the activity is to help students identify some of the characteristics of clouds and to enable students to observe clouds, describe them in a common vocabulary, and compare their descriptions with the official cloud names. Students will be able to identify cloud types using standard cloud classification names. They will know that the names used for the clouds are based on three factors: their shapes, the altitude at which they occur, and whether they are producing precipitation. Educational levels: Primary elementary, Intermediate elementary
Elementary GLOBE: Getting to Know Soil
Get PDFA learning activity for the Scoop on Soils book in the Elementary GLOBE Series. Each student will make predictions about the properties of various soil samples. Then they will examine several types of soils and record their observations. Next, they will learn about soil profiles and horizons by both examining a soil sample in a jar and by creating a soil profile flip chart. The purpose of the activity is to provide the opportunity for students to ask questions and make observations about soil and introduce students to the properties of soil and to the concept of soil profiles and horizons. After completing this activity, students will know about soil's different properties and about soil profiles. Students will know that soils have different properties including texture, color, and size. They will know that soil forms layers based on these properties. Educational levels: Primary elementary, Intermediate elementary