Earth Activities
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Earth Lessons:
3-2-1 Liftoff! #01 Station Information
Grade Level: K-4
Body: Earth
Mission: Human Spaceflight (Earth)
Short Description: Students share and evaluate their knowledge of the International Space Station (ISS).
3-2-1 Liftoff! #02 Destination: Station
Grade Level: K-4
Body: Earth
Mission: Human Spaceflight (Earth)
Short Description: Students identify the International Space Station (ISS) and different types of rockets as objects in the sky built by humans.
3-2-1 Liftoff! #03 Countdown Begins
Grade Level: K-4
Body: Earth
Mission: Human Spaceflight (Earth)
Short Description: Students associate a countdown with a rocket launch and practice counting from 10 to 1.
3-2-1 Liftoff! #04 Simple Rocket Science
Grade Level: K-4
Body: Earth
Mission: Human Spaceflight (Earth)
Short Description: Students perform a simple science experiment to show how a rocket works and to demonstrate Newton's Third Law of Motion.
3-2-1 Liftoff! #05 More Rocket Science
Grade Level: K-4
Body: Earth
Mission: Human Spaceflight (Earth)
Short Description: Students gather data and create a simple graph to show the results of a science experiment.
3-2-1 Liftoff! #10 Rocket Alphabet
Grade Level: K-4
Body: Earth
Mission: Human Spaceflight (Earth)
Short Description: Students practice uppercase letter recognition and sequencing uppercase letters in the correct order.
3-2-1 Liftoff! #20 Fact and Fiction
Grade Level: K-4
Body: Earth
Mission: Human Spaceflight (Earth)
Short Description: Using the concepts of fact and fiction, students review what they learned about the International Space Station (ISS), the space shuttle, and rockets.
Alka-Seltzer Rockets
Topic: Modeling Solar System Objects
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Asteroids, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Comets, Kuiper Belt & Oort Cloud, Earth's Moon
Short Description: Using baking soda and vinegar, propel an object across the floor to introduce the idea of how things move through space.
Analyzing Elemental Abundances
Grade Level: 9-12
Body: Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Asteroids, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Comets, Kuiper Belt & Oort Cloud
Mission: Genesis (Our Solar System)
Short Description: Participants will practice and understand the use of ratios in describing the abundances of isotopes.
Auroral Magnetism from the Ground
Topic: Magnetism
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Earth
Mission: Earth Science (Earth)
Short Description: Students analyze graphs to determine the range of magnetic changes at Canadian observatories.
