Browse Archive
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How Do We Stay in Space Once We Arrive?
03.05.08 - This video segment is one of seven from the Liftoff to Learning: Space Basics DVD. This clip focuses on how the space shuttle stays in orbit as an application of Newton's Laws of Motion.
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International Polar Year-Related Lesson Plans →
02.20.08 - Use IPY-related lesson plans that incorporate NASA data.
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Extra-Credit Problems in Space Science
02.06.08 - This educator guide contains a collection of mathematics and reading activities that explore the sun-Earth system.
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Smart Skies Web Site →
01.30.08 - FlyBy Math has distance-rate-time investigations. Line Up With Math asks students to use proportional reasoning and distance-rate-time relationships to avoid air traffic conflicts.
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Laws of the Universe Activities →
01.23.08 - Use this Web site to teach light, motion, gravity and related subjects.
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Launch Vehicle Family Album
01.16.08 - This "family photo album" of NASA launch vehicles contains samples of historic rockets, modern rockets and concept designs.
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Settlement Lesson
01.16.08 - From the Exploration: Then and Now series, this lesson asks students to compare the settlement of the Jamestown colony to the Apollo moon landings.
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Our Solar System Lithograph Set
01.09.08 - This set includes 20 NASA pictures of the sun, the planets, moons, comets and asteroids.
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Optics: Light, Color and Their Uses Educator Guide
12.20.07 - Students can make spectroscopes, periscopes and more with the activities and lesson plans in this guide.
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Packing Up for the Moon Educator Guide
11.30.07 - In this unit, middle school students participate in the engineering design process, in which they build and evaluate a lunar plant growth chamber of their own design.