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Topic:
Grade Level: K-4
Body:
Earth
Mission:
Human Spaceflight (Earth)
Science Education Standards: National Science Education Standards
Science as Inquiry:
- Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
- Understandings about scientific inquiry
- Position and motion of objects
- Objects in the sky
Science and Technology:
- Understanding about science and technology
- Abilities to distinguish between natural objects and objects made by humans
History and Nature of Science
- Science as a human endeavour
Short Description: Students identify the International Space Station (ISS) and different types of rockets as objects in the sky built by humans.
Source: NASA