Using the Lunar Toolkit to Meet State Mathematics Standards

National Space Grant Foundation

Aerospace Education Services Project (AESP) Implementation Mini-grant

UTC Pre-service Teacher Workshop, July 6-10, 2009

TETC Presentation, 12/03/09

Address for this page: http://web2.utc.edu/~fbp972/nsgf09.html

Online Toolkit Sources for Activities

Field Trip to the Moon - http://www.amnh.org/education/school_groups/offering.php?id=85

• Educators’ Guide - http://www.amnh.org/education/resources/rfl/pdf/ftm_edguide.pdf

o       Navigation Investigation – Task Card 2 - What supplies will you take to the Moon, and how will you pack them in the cargo bay?

o       Geology Investigation – Task Card 1 - What metals and minerals are best suited for the construction of the lunar station?

o       Geology Investigation – Task Card 2 - Which area of the chosen landing site is best for mining?

·        Companion Guide - http://www.amnh.org/education/resources/rfl/pdf/ftmcompguide.pdf

• Investigate Craters

Apollo Moon School Workshop – The Museum of Flight - http://www.museumofflight.org/professional-development-workshops

• Educational Links - http://www.museumofflight.org/education-links

  • PlaneMath/Applying Flying (nine online activities) - http://www.planemath.com/

Challenger Learning Centers/Professional Development - http://www.challenger.org/clc/development.cfm

• Teachers/Lesson Database - http://www.challenger.org/teachers/lessons/index.cfm

• Return to the Moon (program) - http://www.challenger.org/teachers/lessons/index_2.cfm

  • Apollo 11 Cryptograph - http://www.challenger.org/lessons/92.pdf

  • Build an Astronaut Base - http://www.challenger.org/lessons/233.zip

  • Lunar Telephone – from Let’s Learn Vocabulary Unit

  • M&M Moon Mining - http://www.challenger.org/lessons/107.pdf

• Reaction Time: Quick as a Wink - http://www.challenger.org/lessons/89.pdf

• Saturn V Coordinates - http://www.challenger.org/lessons/98.pdf

• Shuttle Coordinates - http://www.challenger.org/lessons/100.pdf

• Solar System Distance - http://www.challenger.org/lessons/85.pdf

Current Opportunities - http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/current-opps-index.html

• Fit Explorer Challenge/Train Like and Astronaut! - http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/fitexplorer/train/index.html

  • Each activity has a handout (in notebook), data page, and teacher guide (view online for lesson questions).

  • Base Station Walk-Back

  • Crew Strength Training

  • Do a Spacewalk!

  • Jump for the Moon

  • Mission: Control

Education Highlights - http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/centers/johnson/k-12/index.html

• Materials Finder link/K-4 Lesson Plans for Physical Science

  • Making Time Fly – http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/205707main_Making_Time_Fly.pdf

  • Sled Kite - http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/205712main_Sled_Kite.pdf

  • Right Flight - http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/205710main_Right_Flight.pdf

  • Air Engines - http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/205700main_Air_Engines.pdf

  • Reflection of Light With Two Plane Mirrors - Double Mirrors Placed at a Number of Angles - http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/350539main_Optics_Reflection_Light_Number_Angles.pdf

  • Reflection of Light With Two Plane Mirrors - Double Mirrors Placed at a 90-Degree Angle - http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/350537main_Optics_Reflection_Light_90_Degree.pdf

  • Light and Color – Color Spinners - http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/350506main_Optics_Color_Spinners.pdf

  • Reflection of Light With a Plane (Flat) Mirror - Trace a Star - http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/350541main_Optics_Reflection_Light_Plane_Mirror.pdf

  • Light and Color – Hidden Messages - http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/350520main_Optics_Hidden_Messages.pdf

• Materials Finder link/K-4 Lesson Plans for Space Science

  • Videos – http://education.jsc.nasa.gov/explorers/index2.html

  • Distance to the Moon – http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/180561main_ETM.Distance.Moon.pdf

  • What’s Hidden Inside? – http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/146856main_Hidden_Inside_Educator.pdf

  • Student - http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/146857main_Hidden_Inside_Student.pdf

  • Get a Leg Up – http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/146854main_Get_A_Leg_Up_Educator.pdf

  • Student - http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/146855main_Get_A_Leg_Up_Student.pdf

  • Diameter of the Moon – http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/180562main_ETM.Diameter.Moon.pdf

Everything You Wanted to Know About the Moon (Texas Space Grant Consortium) - http://www.tsgc.utexas.edu/everything/moon/

• Astronauts – http://www.tsgc.utexas.edu/everything/moon/people.html

• Games (online) – http://www.tsgc.utexas.edu/everything/moon/games/

  • Lunar Cryptograms – http://www.tsgc.utexas.edu/everything/moon/games/cryptogram/

EXPLORE! Fun with Science (Lunar and Planetary Institute) - http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/explore/

• Links – Education, The Moon, Connect to the Moon, Classroom Teachers/K-4, Family Space Days

  • Passport to the Moon (homework) - http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/space_days/activities/moon/documents/Moon_Passport_to_Moon.pdf

  • Oreo Moon Phases - http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/space_days/activities/moon/documents/Moon_Oreo_Phases.pdf

Google Moon (online resource) - http://www.google.com/moon/

Kids Main Page (NASA Students K-4) - http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/index.html

• Addition Blast Off (online activity; other activities present) - http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/games/levelthree/KC_Blast_Off.html

LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) - http://lcross.arc.nasa.gov/education.htm

• Charting a Course to the Moon, then links to other online resources (in Part II)

• On the Moon Educator Guide - http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/308966main_On_the_Moon.pdf

  • Launch It

  • Touchdown

• Newton’s Laws of Motion (three laws, online) - http://teachertech.rice.edu/Participants/louviere/Newton/index.html

  • Hot Wheels Lab - http://teachertech.rice.edu/Participants/louviere/Newton/hotwheels.html

LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) - http://lro.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery-multimedia.html

• Images and Multimedia, including Galileo’s drawings (Historical Moon)

• Current News, Mission Details links

Lunar and Planetary Science (the Moon) (online facts and links) - http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/moonpage.html

Lunar Exploration Theme Videos - http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/home/why_moon.html

• Why the Moon? Poster (back cover of notebook) - http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/163561main_why_moon2.pdf

• Six brief videos

Lunar Photo of the Day (online) - http://lpod.wikispaces.com/

Moon and Mars (online) - http://www1.nasa.gov/topics/moonmars/index.html

• Apollo 10: 40 Years later (video and information about Apollo missions, see mission patches) - http://www1.nasa.gov/externalflash/apollo40/

Multimedia Search Engine (NASA Image eXchange – NIX) (online) - http://nix.nasa.gov/

NASA History Division: The Apollo Program (online) - http://history.nasa.gov/apollo.html

StarChild (search for moon) - http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/StarChild.html

• Moon Count – online activity - http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level1/javascript/moon_count.html

Traditions of the Sun: Ancient Astronomy (online video, longitude and latitude information) - http://www.traditionsofthesun.org/

General Resources

• National Space Grant Foundation - http://www.spacegrant.org/
• Aerospace Education Services Project (AESP) - http://aesp.psu.edu/
• Tennessee Space Grant Consortium - http://tsgc.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/

• Challenger Center for Space Science Education - http://challenger.org/

• UTC Challenger Center - http://www.utc.edu/Outreach/ChallengerCenter/
• UTC Clarence T. Jones Observatory - http://www.utc.edu/Academic/JonesObservatory/

• Comets - http://www.nineplanets.org/comets.html

• Halley’s Comet - http://www.nineplanets.org/halley.html

• Halley's Comet - http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/comets/halley.html

• Shoemaker-Levy - http://www.nineplanets.org/sl9.html

• - http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9/

• - http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9/top20.html

• Adventure Science Center, Sudekum Planetarium, Nashville, TN – http://www.sudekumplanetarium.com/

• The Renaissance Center, Dickson, TN – http://www.rcenter.org/ (see CyberSphere)

• Basil Seeds Continue the Journey - http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/plantgrowth/home/index.html

• Principles and Standards for School Mathematics - http://standards.nctm.org/

• Tennessee Curriculum Standards for 2009-2010 - http://www.state.tn.us/education/curriculum.shtml

• NCTM Illuminations - http://illuminations.nctm.org/
• Project Interactivate - http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/
• National Library of Virtual Manipulatives - http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html
• ETA Cuisenaire - http://www.etacuisenaire.com/

• Benchmarks for Science Literacy - http://www.project2061.org/tools/benchol/bolintro.htm

• National Science Education Standards - http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/nses/

• NASA - http://www.nasa.gov/ or [skip intro] - http://www.nasa.gov/home/index.html?skipIntro=1
• NASA Education Program - http://education.nasa.gov/home/index.html
• Math-Literature Book List - http://web2.utc.edu/~fbp972/alpha_ie_s01_spr_to_HH.xls
• Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students - http://www.nsta.org/ostbc
• TSGC Summer 2006 Workshop - http://web2.utc.edu/~fbp972/tsgc06.htm

• TSGC Fall 2006 - Spring 2007 Workshops - http://web2.utc.edu/~fbp972/tsgc0607.html

• TSGC Fall 2007 - Spring 2010 Workshops - http://web2.utc.edu/~fbp972/tsgc0708.html

• Deborah McAllister - http://web2.utc.edu/~fbp972/

Workshop Documents

• Lunar Toolkit - Correlation to Tennessee Mathematics Standards - http://web2.utc.edu/~fbp972/LunarTNstandards.pdf
• Lunar Toolkit Materials List - http://web2.utc.edu/~fbp972/LunarMaterialsList.pdf
• Lunar Toolkit Book Correlation - http://web2.utc.edu/~fbp972/LunarBookCorrelation.pdf
• Lunar Toolkit Book List - http://web2.utc.edu/~fbp972/LunarBooklist.xls
• Toolkits (2009, Lunar Exploration; 2010, Solar System Exploration) - http://cshare.psu.edu/sites/aesp/Public/default.aspx

Created 03/12/2009, last modified 04/24/2012.

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