Food on the Fly
- NGSS: 5-PS1-3.Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.
- NGSS: 5-PS1-2.Measure and graph quantities to provide evidence that regardless of the type of change that occurs when heating, cooling, or mixing substances, the total weight of matter is conserved. Chemistry - chemical reactions
- NGSS: MS-PS1-2. Analyze and interpret data on the properties of substances before and after the substances interact to determine if a chemical reaction has occurred.
- NGSS: MS-PS1-4. Develop a model that predicts and describes changes in particle motion, temperature, and state of a pure substance when thermal energy is added or removed.
How Big is BIG?: The Scale of the Solar System
- NGSS: MS-ESS1-3 Earth's Place in the Universe: Analyze and interpret data to determine scale properties of objects in the solar system.
Inspiration Space: Art, Photography and the Universe
National Core Arts Standards
The Arts as Communication: Artistically literate citizens use a variety of artistic media, symbols, and metaphors to independently create and perform work that expresses and communicates their own ideas, and are able to respond by analyzing and interpreting the artistic communications of others.
- Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
- 6th VA: CR1.1.6a: Combine concepts collaboratively to generate innovative ideas for creating art.
- 4th VA: CR1.2.4a: Collaboratively set goals and create artwork that is meaningful and has purpose to the makers.
- Anchor Standard #4. Select, analyze and interpret artistic work for presentation.
- 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.
- 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.
International Collaboration: Building the New Frontier
Social Studies
- D2.Civ.3.6-8. Examine the origins, purposes, and impact of constitutions, law treaties, and international agreements.
- D2.Geo.1.3-5. Construct maps and other graphic representations of both familiar and unfamiliar places.
- D2.Geo.4.6-8. Explain how cultural patterns and economic decisions influence environments and the daily lives of people in both nearby and distant places.
- D2.His.1.3-5. Create and use a chronological sequence of related events to compare developments that happened at the same time.
- D4.7.3-5. Explain different strategies and approaches students and others could take in working alone and together to address local, regional, and global problems, and predict possible results of their actions.
Breaking World Records in Space and Aviation
Social Studies
- D2.Eco.7.6-8. Analyze the role of innovation and entrepreneurship in a market economy.
- D2.Geo.3.6-8. Use paper based and electronic mapping and graphing techniques to represent and analyze spatial patterns of different environmental and cultural characteristics.
The Great American Eclipse, Part 2
NGSS:
- MS-ESS1-1 Earth's Place in the Universe: Develop and use a model of the Earth-sun-moon system to describe the cyclic patterns of lunar phases, eclipses of the sun and moon, and seasons.
- 5-ESS1-1 Earth's Place in the Universe: Support an argument that the apparent brightness of the sun and stars is due to their relative distances from the Earth.
- 5-ESS1-2 Earth's Place in the Universe: Represent data in graphical displays to reveal patterns of daily changes in length and direction of shadows, day and night, and the seasonal appearance of some stars in the night sky.