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Living and Working in Space Teaching Poster
Introduces students to the environmental conditions, the challenges that must be overcome to live and work there, and advances in spacesuit technology. Students consider various reasons for going to space and compare conditions in space with those on Earth.
Grades 5-8
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Milestones of Flight Teaching Poster
Introduces students to seven of the most historic aircraft and spacecraft in the Museum's collections and asks students to consider the technological advances of these craft as well as their impact on society.
Grades 4-6
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Embracing The Impossible: Popular Response to the Aerial Age Teaching Poster
Students review primary source materials to understand how people felt about the new technology of flying in the early 1900s. Then, they choose an invention today and document the popular response to it.
10 pages
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Explore
The Universe Teaching Packet The packet includes background
information and an activity that challenges students to think
about the structure of the universe by considering size, distance
and age. The open-ended nature of this activity makes it appropriate
for a wide range of grade levels.
Grades 4-12
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Exploring
the Planets Teaching Poster Students can examine drawings
of four probes to observe how specific design features enable
the probe to carry out its mission in a particular environment.
Students then select a planet and design a probe to explore
it.
Grades 3-6
Exploring the Planets
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Reflections
on Earth: Exploring Earth from Space Teaching Poster
In this introduction to remote sensing,
students use satellite images to investigate changes over
time and then use scale to calculate distance and area. Easy-to-photocopy
classroom lessons on the back.
2'x3' color poster • Grades 6–12
Teaching Poster in PDF Format
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Reflections
on Earth: Biodiversity and Remote Sensing Teacher Guide With lessons for interpreting satellite images and field
studies, students learn to measure and monitor forest biodiversity
on a local, regional, and global scale.
45 pages • Grades 6–10
Teacher Guide in PDF Format
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How
Things Fly Teaching Poster Classroom and gallery
activities in this guide prepare students for a visit to the
How Things Fly gallery, an interactive exhibition on the physics
of flight. Topics include air pressure, gravity, and buoyancy.
Grades 4–8
How Things Fly Teaching
Poster in PDF Format (973 KB) |
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African
American Pioneers in Aviation Teacher Guide Lessons
that guide students to use primary source documents to explore
the challenges and successes of African American pioneers
who established a place in aviation and the space industry
for subsequent generations.
45 pages • Grades 5–9
airandspace.si.edu/blackwings
Teacher Guide in PDF Format
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African
Americans in Aviation: The 1940's -- A Decade of Change Teacher
Poster Classroom activity introduces students to
African American aviators who flew during the 1940's. Students
study primary source materials--photographs, government documents,
a letter, a newspaper story and the colorful reprint of a
1940's poster that is the front--to answer research questions.
10 pages • Grades 5–12
Teacher Guide in
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From
Airmail to Airlines Teacher Guide Lively classroom
activities for students that explore changes in air transportation
from 1920 to the present. Designed as a companion to transportation
units in the curriculum and can be used alone or with hands-on
activities during a Museum visit.
40 pages • Grades 3–5
Teacher
Guide in PDF Format (973 KB) |
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And
a Star to Steer Her By Field Trip Guide Introduces
students to the tools and techniques used to navigate by the
stars. Provides classroom activities and background information.
24 pages • Grades 5–9
Field Trip Guide in PDF Format
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Sky
Quest Teaching Poster What can we see in the night
sky with our naked eyes? What can we see with a telescope?
Activities for the classroom will prepare students for the
Planetarium show, Sky Quest.
Grades K–3
Sky Quest Teaching Poster in
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Cosmic
Voyage Teachers Guide Activities in this guide provide
students with concrete experiences to help them understand
measurement, scale and how scientists work. The activities
work well alone or as a supplement to the Imax film
Cosmic Voyage. The film is also available on video and DVD
from Warner Home Video. See your local video store for ordering
information.
53 pages • Grades 4–12
Cosmic Voyage Teachers Guide
in PDF format (1.09 MB) |
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Destiny
in Space Teachers Guide This guide examines our
future prospects for space exploration. Activities, information,
and resources cover a range of topics some of which are: muscle
response to weightlessness, robotic guides, suiting up for
space, communication and gardening in space. The film is now
available on video and DVD from Warner Home Video. See your
local video store for ordering information.
66 pages • Grades 4–12
Destiny in Space Teachers Guide
in PDF format (1.12 MB) |
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Destiny
in Space Teaching Poster
This poster helps students
find answers to the questions: How might robots help in space
exploration? What tools help us explore the universe? Will
we visit other planets? How do you work in a space shuttle?
How can we live in space? What can we learn from space exploration?
Grades 4–12
Destiny in Space Teaching
Poster in PDF format (153 kb) |
