NASA at Home and City - Space developments related to life on earth

NASA Kid's Club is another great resource from NASA for educators. It has educational games, pictures, animations, activities and much more. Many of the resources are based on well known children's characters like Elmo and Buzz Lightyear and can be applied to many different subject areas. 

It is one more great resource for teachers from NASA.






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Space Shuttle Atlantis at the Launch Pad - STS-135

Credit: NASA/Terry Zaperach

Space shuttle Atlantis stands on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where it is set to liftoff on STS-135, the final shuttle mission from NASA .

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NASA at Home and City is a great site from NASA that shows examples of how technologies developed for space exploration are used and applied on Earth.

The site is graphic based, easy to use, and very informative. It's a great resource to share with students to show them how developments for one thing can apply to another.

In the example below, items used in a home bathroom are featured and their link to the space program defined.

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Today is the 50th Anniversary of 1st Human Spaceflight and the 150th Anniversary of the start of the US Civil War.

Google's Doodle is about the 50th Anniversary of the 1st Human Spaceflight.

Here are some resources about this historic event, along with other resources about manned spaceflight:

NASA's Page on Yuri Gagarin - news article from the event, archived video, and summary of his flight.

Russian Archives Online - biography of Yuri Gagarin and history of his historic mission. 

First Orbit - site tracks Gagarin's mission and includes transcripts of his communications with mission control. Includes a "video" of the mission as seen from the International Space Station, along with actual mission audio and news transcripts. 

Today, 150 years ago, the Civil War began at Fort Sumter. Here are some resources about the US Civil War:

Civil War Traveler - this site has information about all of the historic sites from the Civil War that you can visit, with historic information and travel help. Great for learning about the Civil War and for planning a trip to historic places. 

Internet Modern History Sourcebook from Fordham University - links, articles and historical documents

History Channel - interactive timeline, videos, links and more. 

Social Studies for Kids - links, articles, and more - written kid-friendly

Using "Today in History" is a great way to talk about different topics and events with your students in any classroom. 

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Image: NASA/JPL

Scientists renders images of space can be pretty impressive, and
sometimes hard to
distinguish from the real
thing when based on
hard science. But
sometimes renderings based on the absence of
science are far more
interesting.The above illustrations
were made by an artist
at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory in 1975 and
reflect then-current
ideas about our neighboring planet. Mars
orbits the sun at a
greater distance than
Earth and is much colder.
It has a thin atmosphere
with a lot of carbon dioxide and is very dry ,
not a good place for life as on earth. These images may have
been influenced by
scientists who thought
Martian life might have
been silicon-based,
rather than carbon- based as on Earth. The
stumpy life-forms are all
fairly simple, and look a
bit like 1970s-era home
furnishings.

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NASA has always had great educational resources. The new Rocketry site is another example.

The site is meant to help get students excited about rockets and science in general. There are a huge number of resources, from information about careers in rocketry, to how to build a rocket, and more. There are links to information about NASA missions, rockets and vehicles, and related topics. There are lesson plans, images, multimedia, games and simulations. There are even links to web casts that NASA produces for students and teachers.

This is not just for science teachers. Math, History, and even English can use lesson about rockets in their classrooms.

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"We failed to make orbit," Omar Baez, NASA's launch director, said at a news conference. "All indications are that the satellite and the rocket are in the southern Pacific Ocean somewhere."

424 million dollars into the drink, and the best we get is it's in the ocean "somewhere"?

Thankfully, no one knows how big $424,000,000 is anymore--other than it's a lot of money. And since no one trusts science anyway, a little more data on global climate would just get ignored.

But for almost a half billion dollars, seems fair to ask just where the sucker landed. Heck, a $99 GPS can tell you that.





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NASA astronauts Steve
Bowen and Alvin Drew
(partially obscured at center)

Image Credit: NASA

International Space Station with the Discovery Space Shuttle which STS-133 conducted a
mission's spacewalk on
Monday, Feb. 28.It prolongs as for the six-hour, 34-minute
spacewalk, Bowen and
Drew,done their assined work in schedule .


The Astronauts had installed the J612 power extension cable, moved a failed ammonia pump module to the External Storage Platform 2 on the Quest Airlock for return to Earth at a later scheduled date,also they installed a camera wedge on the right hand truss segment,installed extensions to the mobiletransporter rail.

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NASA is one of my favorite resources as a science teacher. They have tons of resources, websites, and more for educators to use in their classrooms.

Solar System Exploration is another great resource from NASA. The site has a variety of resources about our solar system including news, information about each planet, NASA missions about our solar system, multimedia resources, information on spacecraft and technology and the people who explore the solar system.

This is a great resource for anyone who teaches science or teaches about our solar system.

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“Spaced Out Sports” is a national student design challenge geared toward grades 5-8.  The purpose is for students to apply Newton’s Laws of Motion by designing or redesigning a game for International Space Station (ISS) astronauts to play in space.  As students design a new sport, they will learn about Newton’s Laws of Motion and the effect of gravity on an object.   They will learn to predict the difference between a game or activity played on Earth and in the microgravity environment of the ISS.  


These kinds of contests are great for students. They learn and apply new things while having fun and have the chance to win some prizes. 


NASA is a great resource for all educators, no matter what subject they teach. 

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NASA's Glenn Research Center has a huge amount of resources for teachers to use in class. The Aerodynamics section is truly amazing. 


They have Science Fundamentals (Newton's Laws, Equilibrium, Torques, Phases of Matter), Math Fundamentals (Area, volume, vectors, trigonometry...), Airplane parts, Aerodynamics, Model Rockets, and much more. 


Many of the topics are set up in a lesson type format. Students can just click "next" to proceed through the section. There are even interactive demos and simulations available. And all of it is for free.


They also have the Beginner's Guide to Aeronautics (BGA) which was created as a Web-based "textbook." The creation of the BGA is a research project to explore the use of the personal computer and the Internet to present educational materials to students, teachers, and lifelong learners in a more interactive way than a printed, bound textbook.

The material is good for Middle and High School students, but teachers can use parts of it for any level of class. 


I use it as a great primer on Newton's Laws, and also use it for our Rocket's lesson at the end of the year. The nice thing is that when you apply all of these topics to aerospace topics, the students are more engaged than they would be by the topic itself. 

Some more NASA Education Sites:

NASA's Main Education Site

Kennedy Space Center Education Site

NASA Grade 9-12 Educator Resources

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NASA eClips is another great site by NASA for educators. The site contains short video clips that can be used to engage students and excite them about different topics, explain a topic, or generate a discussion.

The videos are sorted by grade level (K-5, 6-8, 9-12) and have educator resources available. There is also a Teacher-to-Teacher blog and a teacher toolbox to help teachers use the video clips in class.

The videos are well done and relevant to many different subject areas. Give them a try.

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