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Christa McAuliffe’s Lost Lessons

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Christa McAuliffe in flight suit during zero gravity training flight

Audience

Educators

Grade Levels

Grades K-4, Grades 5-8, Informal Education

Subject

Physical Science, Matter and Its Properties

Type

Lesson Plans / Activities, Videos

NASA and the Challenger Center present Christa’s Lost Lessons. Christa McAuliffe was chosen to be the first teacher in space. Due to the tragic space shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986, she did not film the science lessons in space as planned. Educators-turned-astronauts, Joe Acaba and Ricky Arnold, spent the 2017-18 school year aboard the International Space Station for A Year of Education on Station. As a tribute to McAuliffe and her legacy, Acaba and Arnold completed her mission. The demonstrations were filmed aboard the International Space Station and corresponding lessons were developed for classrooms.

Watch the video demonstrations and teach the science lessons of the first educator chosen for the Teacher In Space program.

Newton’s Laws Classroom Lesson 

Newton’s Laws

Liquids in Microgravity Classroom Lesson

Liquids in Microgravity

Effervescence Classroom Lesson

Effervescence

Chromatography Classroom Lessons

Chromatography

Leaf Chromatography

Walking Rainbow

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Honoring a Teacher: Christa McAuliffe’s Lost Lessons