Coming to the
March 3, 2007 -
September 16, 2007
Created to
ignite your desire for discovery, sparking your imagination and inspiring new
generations of explorers to dream of the possibilities that lie ahead, Space: A
Journey to our Future gives visitors an opportunity to experience past
explorations and future destiny in space.
The exhibit is
currently at North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.
Click here
to visit the exhibit's web site
The
following links are offered as educational resources to
help prepare for or extend the experience.
From NASA
Moon Resources for Teachers
Find links to lesson plans and classroom
activities about the moon.
Mars for
Educators Find links to lesson plans and classroom activities
about Mars.
From the Texas
Space Grant Consortium
Everything you wanted to know about …
Mars
... our
Moon
From the National Academy of Engineering's Engineer Girl
website
Mars Visions
Explore Mars through the visions of artists, scientists, engineers, and
astronauts who have turned their creative energies into wonderful paintings,
stories, music, architecture, intelligent machines, human space flight, and much
more
Challenger Learning Center Missions
The year is 2015. For the first time since 1972, a crew of
astronauts is returning to the Moon. This time, they plan to stay.
Their mission is to establish a permanent base on the Moon to
observe and explore, as well as test the feasibility of off-Earth
settlements. Navigating their way into lunar orbit, students must
construct and launch a probe, and analyze a variety of data gathered
from the lunar surface to select a site for establishing the
permanent Moon base.
Students begin a new era in human planetary explorations during
their mission to Return to the Moon.
Voyage
to Mars™
In Earth
years, it is 2076. A now routine Voyage to Mars has brought the latest
human crew into Martian orbit.
Control
of the incoming flight has been transferred from Houston's Mission Control
to Mars Control at Chryse Station. The crew arriving from Earth on the
Mars Transport Vehicle has been specially trained to replace the existing
crew of astronauts, which has manned Mars Control for the past two years.
After
arriving on the Martian surface, the team will collect and analyze a
number of planetary samples and data. This information is vital to
scientists and explorers for a better understanding of the Red Planet.
IMAX Theater at the
Indiana State Museum
Now Playing - Walt Disney Picture's Roving Mars
(Teachers Guide)
Coming Soon - Magnificent Desolation: Walking
on the Moon 3D
(Teacher's Guide)
Space Explorers, Inc
Mars Explorer
simulates driving
a Mars Exploration Rover on the surface of Mars. Students embark on this
simulation individually as they analyze individual rocks scattered throughout
the surface of Mars. In this simulation, students examine Martian data to
compare various landing sites. Once they have chosen their landing site, they
launch their rover. The students watch an animation of the rover from the time
it sits on the launch pad until it lands on Mars and opens up for deployment.
In
Marslink®,
students simulate mission control as they place the Mars Odyssey spacecraft in
orbit around the planet Mars. Students work together on 12 computers to launch a
simulated rocket over the Internet. Many of the actions are authentic and
scripted, but each mission must overcome anomalies that are not part of the
script. Through all the tasks the students perform, they learn about the
positions that must work together to get a spacecraft to Mars.
Moonlink®
simulates the Lunar Prospector mission that was sent to research the Moon. As in
the Marslink® program, students work together on 12 computers to launch their
spacecraft to the Moon. Students perform tasks that mimic the actions of
scientists and engineers in mission control. This mission also utilizes a script
for most of the actions that students are to perform, but again, like Marslink,
there are unscripted moments throughout the simulation that mission control must
resolve. the impact results.
The Mission
Mathematics II This
series was developed by NASA and National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in
an unprecedented effort to link the science of aeronautics with the Standards
that NCTM has developed for all aspects of mathematics education. Following the
publication of the original Mission Mathematics series in 1997, this revision
focuses on aligning the activities with NCTM's Principles and Standards for
School Mathematics (2000) in the context of aerospace activities. The
activities in each book focus on actively engaging students in NCTM's Process
Standards, translating the work of engineers and scientists at NASA into
language and experiences appropriate for young learners, and providing teachers
with mathematics activities that complement many of the available NASA resources
for students and educators.
Mission Mathematics II: Prekindergarten–Grade 2 (with CD-ROM)
Mission Mathematics II: Grades 3–5 (with CD-ROM)
Mission Mathematics II: Grades 6–8
Mission Mathematics II: Grades 9–12
Lunar Research Station Design
Challenge.
In order to prepare for exploration on the Moon and Mars, NASA utilizes sites on
Earth to simulate living and working on extra-terrestrial surfaces. Students,
primarily in grades 5 – 8, will be challenged to design and build a full- or
scale-model of an Earth-based research station that will support living
adaptively and working efficiently on the Moon.
Check Back - we
will continue to add links to resources and Lesson Plans
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