Teaching Themes
Space: Everything You Need
Students will learn about space with these leveled activities and lessons for different skills and grade ranges.
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Articles Satellites and Space ProbesGrades: 6–8, 9–12 How do satellites stay up in space? What is the furthest a spaceship could go? Astronomer Cathy Imhoff answers students'questions about satellites... |
Articles Interplanetary ProbesGrades: 6–8, 9–12 The exploration of other bodies in the solar system began within a few years of the first satellites. Both U.S. and Soviet space engineers set... |
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Articles Manned Space MissionsGrades: 6–8, 9–12 The most challenging and exciting aspect of space exploration has been manned spaceflight. Soon after the first satellites were launched, both... |
Space ExplorationGrades: 6–8, 9–12 Offers details about the past, present, and future of space exploration. |
Space Exploration and TravelGrades: 3–5, 6–8, 9–12 Discusses space travel over the years. Talks about the future of space exploration. Describes the physical and emotional stresses that astronauts... |
Articles Orbital Space ExplorationGrades: 6–8, 9–12 The practical uses of satellites in orbit around the Earth are described in many separate articles and in more general entries such as... |
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Articles The Space EnvironmentGrades: 6–8, 9–12 One of the first discoveries made by early Earth satellites was that an unexpectedly high number of charged particles were trapped in the Earth's... |
Articles Find Where the Wind Goes BooktalkGrades: 6–8 From a Chicago inner-city school, to outer space as the first black woman astronaut, Mae has always reached for the stars. Let her tell you how... |
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Exploring SaturnGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Features an interactive reproducible that offers research links for learning about Saturn as well as questions for students to answer based on... |
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Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Gains WeightGrades: 3–5 Phoebe and her classmates find out that gravity pulls everything down. Your kids test whether gravity makes heavier things fall faster than... |
Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Out of This WorldGrades: 3–5 If the asteroid Ms. Frizzle’s class followed crashed to Earth, it would create a huge crater. Your kids can explore the "craters" that objects... |
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Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Sees StarsGrades: 3–5 Dorothy Ann has a nifty new telescope, but she still enjoys looking at the stars with eye power alone. Your kids report star counts and explore... |
Lesson Plans, Extension Activities, Writing Activities Using a Graphic Organizer to Research a QuestionGrades: 1–2, 3–5 Offers a lesson plan in which students learn about the solar system and sharpen their research skills. Involves researching a question and... |
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Lesson Plans, Book Resources Astro Bunnies Lesson PlanGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 A perfect bedtime story about little bunnies that zoom off for an outer-space adventure, but always return at bedtime. |
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New Planets in Earth's BackyardGrades: 6–8 A NASA telescope makes the biggest planet discovery ever |
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