Through a gardening activity, students will use their knowledge of growth to determine the effect of gravity on plant growth.
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See what happens when Astronaut Kjell Lindgren puts marshmallows into a vacuum in this lesson of ISS Science.
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Use their knowledge of air, through a vacuum activity, to determine what will happen to objects when pressure is increased and decreased.
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Astronaut Jack 2fish Fischer stopped by for the latest episode of the Smithsonian’'s ISS Science and tried out a hands-on experiment involving boiling water.
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Explore how pressure changes impact water.
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Students will build their own model of the atmosphere to gain understanding of the layers and what can fly in each layer.
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Students will annotate a historical image based on research they conduct.
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Investigate why and how spacecraft must dissipate energy when landing back on Earth, or on Mars, or anywhere else for that matter.
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Astronaut Randy Bresnik talks about the landing. Also see how the energy from a landing is dissipated in a hands-on classroom activity.
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Why did NASA shoot lasers at the moon in the 1960s?
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