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NASA Kids' Club has educational games, engaging multimedia and visuals, and educational activities to cover K-4 students' developmental and learning abilities as addressed in national education standards in math, science and technology. The skills levels provide a natural progression through the site that allows users to find games that are best suited to their varying abilities. Developmentally appropriate content is based on national education standards and benchmarks per grade level. Content is written within the K-4 reading levels as determined by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score, a tool available in Microsoft Word.
To visit the Kids' Club interactive website, click here.
This educational web site is designed for classroom use by teachers and students in Kindergarten through grade 4. It is also designed for homeschool use, and for use by those who are interested learning more about rotorcraft. The web site is actually an on-line, interactive book about one girl's visit with her mother to the rotorcraft research center at which her mother works (using a take your daughter to work scenario). While shadowing her mother at work, Robin Whirlybird learns about the kind of work being done at a NASA Rotorcraft facility. She also learns about the structure and function of different types of rotorcraft and about the science of flight as it pertains to rotorcraft.
This educator guide includes the activities:
*What is a Model?
*How to Rotorcraft Fly?
*How do Rotors Make Lift?
*Rotorcraft Flight
*Rotor Blade Shape and Flight
*Long and Short Rotor Blades
*Rotor Blade Weight and Flight
*The Rotorcraft Challenge
*Correlation to Educational Standards
NASA educator guide for pre-K through 2nd grade focuses on activities about the International Space Station and the role rockets play in its construction.
To download the complete educator's guide, click here.
The activities in this guide help students learn the basic principles of flight. The guide is divided into three chapters:
--Air.
--Flight.
--We Can Fly, You and I.
The end of each chapter has a list of simple interdisciplinary activities for all elementary subjects.
To download the complete Educator's Guide, click here.
You can now download the final version of the Saturn Educator Guide. You will need Adobe's Acrobat Reader to view the file(s). The text in this publication is based on the Cassini Teacher Guide field test version, previously available from this website and from the Space Science Institute. The field test version has been heavily revised and improved for your use.
Or, obtain the entire Saturn Educator Guide in published form (3-hole punched with divider tabs) along with a CD-ROM that includes the guide, a gallery of color images, and a bonus copy of the interactive educational program "Ways of Seeing" for only $15.00 from NASA CORE: http://www.core.nasa.gov. Select "search catalog" and type in Saturn, click on Saturn Educator Guide for details
While the lessons are focused on science standards for grades 5 though 8, they may be tailored to higher and lower grade levels.
The lessons are supplemented by Enrichments, which can be used to enliven teaching with relevant references to art, language, and mythology.
Space food research meets the challenge of providing food that tastes good and travels well in space. The activities in this NASA educator guide for grades K-8 emphasize hands-on and cooperative involvement of students as they explore the unique problems of keeping astronauts happy and healthy in space.
The activities in this guide promote problem solving, communication skills and teamwork. Earth and space science subjects include lunar geology and regolith, distance to the moon, Apollo landing sites and life support systems.
To download the complete educator's guide, click here.
These are educational resources that may be used to support Space Day, which is the first Friday of every May. In 2009, Space Day is on Friday, May 1st.
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