Students work collaboratively to research and record information about different spinoffs of space exploration. Using the information they find, students then write a script to be produced into a podcast or vodcast.
This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the 6th grade Science content.
This resource accompanies our Rethink 6th Grade Science course. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning.
In this lesson, students identify the events that led to the decision to send a man to the moon, examine some of the work necessary to make the Apollo project possible, evaluate arguments for preserving historic sites relating to the space program, and discuss comparable debates about preserving places in their own community that are associated with recent history.
Students learn about the locations and geology of the six Apollo landing sites.
This online interactive exhibition by the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum examines the story of America's effort to master the challenges of an unprecedented journey across thousands of miles of space is told in this online exhibition: Apollo to the Moon. The story is told through primary and secondary sources in the context of the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Students research suitable criteria for defining the presence of life. They then analyze soil samples in tests similar to the experiments on the Mars Viking Lander.
Students will create a beautiful piece of art while learning to recognize the geology on planetary surfaces. In this project-based activity, students use the elements of art - shape, line, color, texture, value - to make sense of images of planets, asteroids, comets, and moons, honing observation skills and inspiring questions.
Students experience the fundamentals of the engineering design process, with a hands-on, critical-thinking, authentic approach. Using collaboration and problem-solving skills, they develop a mission to search for life in the Solar System that meets constraints (budget, mass, power) and criteria (significant science return).
This game board is a supplemental resource to be used with the lesson "Astrobiobound!" In this fun, interactive card simulation, students experience the fundamentals of the engineering design process, with a hands-on, critical-thinking, authentic approach. Using collaboration and problem-solving skills, they develop a mission to search for life in the Solar System that meets constraints (budget, mass, power) and criteria (significant science return).
This handout provides the game cards and is a supplemental resource to be used with the lesson "Astrobiobound!" In this fun, interactive card simulation, students experience the fundamentals of the engineering design process, with a hands-on, critical-thinking, authentic approach. Using collaboration and problem-solving skills, they develop a mission to search for life in the Solar System that meets constraints (budget, mass, power) and criteria (significant science return).
This presentation is a supplemental resource to be used with the lesson "Astrobiobound!" In this fun, interactive card simulation, students experience the fundamentals of the engineering design process, with a hands-on, critical-thinking, authentic approach. Using collaboration and problem-solving skills, they develop a mission to search for life in the Solar System that meets constraints (budget, mass, power) and criteria (significant science return).
Students assess the goals, benefits, success, and limitations of technology (instruments) on a space mission.
Students are introduced to planetary research in order to increase their ability to recognize the planets and their surface features.
This activity is designed to introduce students to geologic processes on Earth and how to identify geologic features in images. It will also introduce students to how scientists use Earth to gain a better understanding of other planetary bodies in the solar system.
This animated video shows how NASA's Cassini spacecraft at Saturn uses radio science to "peer" beneath the surface of the hazy moon Titan and study its mysterious lakes.
This article provides instructions for students to build a radio telescope and offers several possibilities for using them to study space.
Students use everyday items to build a solar eclipse viewer. They use it to examine the sun's corona and storms from the sun, such as solar flares and Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs).
In this activity, students learn about how life on Earth is possible and what would be needed to live in other locations in the solar system.