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Life: Here? There? Elsewhere? The Search for Life on Venus and Mars (PowerPoint)
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Venus, Mars
Short Description: Students investigate the phenomena of life through activities that introduce them to the multidisciplinary sciences of planetology and exobiology. Simulating Venusian and Martian conditions, they explore various means of detecting life in the atmosphere and soils of Earth. They use their findings to propose a spacecraft design for life detection on Venus and Mars.
Lunar Nautics: Designing a Mission to Live and Work on the Moon (Educator Guide)
Grade Level: 5-8
Short Description: The Lunar Nautics Educator Guide has 40 activities. Students assume roles of workers at Lunar Nautics Space Systems, Inc., a fictional aerospace company specializing in mission management, lunar habitat and exploration design, and scientific research.
This guide features lessons that address the basics of Newton's Laws of Motion, rocket design, microgravity, and the Moon. Students will design, test and analyze a model lunar lander, a robot and a soda bottle rocket. Other activities include building edible models of spacecraft and a solar oven to cook hot dogs. Students can also build a microgravity sled as part of an underwater activity.
Lunar Nautics: Designing a Mission to Live and Work on the Moon (Student Handbook)
Grade Level: 5-8
Short Description: The Student Employment Handbook supplements the Lunar Nautics Educator Guide. The handbook contains the student sheets that accompany the lessons and activities in the educator guide.
The Lunar Nautics Educator Guide has 40 activities. Students assume roles of workers at Lunar Nautics Space Systems, Inc., a fictional aerospace company specializing in mission management, lunar habitat and exploration design, and scientific research.
The guide features lessons that address the basics of Newton's Laws of Motion, rocket design, microgravity, and the Moon. Students will design, test and analyze a model lunar lander, a robot and a soda bottle rocket. Other activities include building edible models of spacecraft and a solar oven to cook hot dogs. Students can also build a microgravity sled as part of an underwater activity.
Magnetic Globe
Topic: Magnetism
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Earth
Short Description: Students use a magnet inside a small globe and clamped staples to model the magnetic field lines of the Earth.
Magnetic Math
Topic: Magnetism
Grade Level: K-4, 5-8, 9-12
Body: Earth
Mission: Earth Science (Earth)
Short Description: This book contains hands-on exercises and math problems which allow students to explore magnetism and magnetic fields. The activities include drawing and geometric construction, and introduce students in the use of simple algebra to quantitatively examine magnetic forces, energy and magnetic field lines and their mathematical structure.
Magnetic Sensor Measurements with a Graphing Calculator
Topic: Magnetism
Grade Level: 9-12
Body: Earth
Mission: Earth Science (Earth)
Short Description: This activity uses magnetic field sensors with the "Texas Instrument" Graphing Calculator and CBL to measure and plot magnetic fields. This allows the student to prove that magnetic fields decrease as the negative cube of the distance.
Magnetism and Electromagnetism (Background Material)
Topic: Magnetism
Grade Level: 9-12
Body: Earth
Mission: Earth Science (Earth)
Short Description: This teacher's guide is designed to support a multi-year investigation of Earth's magnetic field using the magnetometer network and resources of NASA's THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) satellite mission education program. The education program's web site can be found at http://ds9.ssl.berkeley.edu/themis/. One particular THEMIS education program, the Geomagnetic Event Observation Network by Students (GEONS), aims to bring magnetometer data to high school classrooms. These guides support that effort.
Magnetism and Electromagnetism (Main Portal)
Topic: Magnetism
Grade Level: 9-12
Body: Earth
Mission: Earth Science (Earth)
Short Description: In this review of basic magnetism, students map field lines around bar magnets to visualize the magnetic dipole field, and create their own electromagnet using copper wire, a battery and a pencil to learn that electric currents create magnetic fields.
Magnetism and Electromagnetism (Teacher Guide)
Topic: Magnetism
Grade Level: 9-12
Body: Earth
Mission: Earth Science (Earth)
Short Description: In this review of basic magnetism, students map field lines around bar magnets to visualize the magnetic dipole field, and create their own electromagnet using copper wire, a battery and a pencil to learn that electric currents create magnetic fields.
Make a Comet Model and Eat It
Topic: Modeling Solar System Objects
Grade Level: K-4, 5-8
Body: Comets
Mission: Deep Impact (Comets)
Short Description: Participants create an edible model using what we think we know about comets. One sample is given to another research team to determine its structure and composition.
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