Challenger Center Missions and Related Mathematics Activities for Preservice Teachers
Tennessee Space Grant Consortium Workshops, Fall 2007 - Spring 2008
Tennessee Space Grant Consortium Workshops, Fall 2008 - Spring 2009
Mathematics and Science Activities for Elementary Grades Preservice Teachers
Tennessee Space Grant Consortium Workshops, Fall 2009 - Spring 2010
Funded by NASA through a grant to the Tennessee Space Grant Consortium
Address for this page: http://oneweb.utc.edu/~deborah-mcallister/tsgc0708.html
Challenger Center for Space Science Education - http://challenger.org/
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
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 - http://www.state.tn.us/education/ci/curriculum.shtml
Benchmarks for Science Literacy - http://www.project2061.org/tools/benchol/bolintro.htm
National Science Education Standards - http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/nses/
Fall 2006 - Spring 2007 Workshops - http://oneweb.utc.edu/~deborah-mcallister/tsgc0607.html
Deborah McAllister - http://oneweb.utc.edu/~deborah-mcallister/
Added for 2008-2009
Workshop 1
Mission Simulations - http://www.challenger.org/clc/simulations.cfm
Artpack – Transforming a Classroom into a Space Habitat – http://www.challenger.org/teachers/tools/artpacks.cfm
Eratosthenes Prime Number Sieve with JavaScript - http://www.hbmeyer.de/eratosiv.htm
NLVM Sieve of Eratosthenes – http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_158_g_2_t_1.html?open=instructions
Sieve of Eratosthenes - http://www.vex.net/~trebla/numbertheory/eratosthenes.html
A Maths Dictionary for Kids 2008 by Jenny Eather - http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/
Math.com Glossary - http://www.math.com/school/glossary/glossindex.html
Math Glossary (interactive) - http://www.cut-the-knot.org/glossary/atop.shtml
Mathematics Glossary (interactive) - http://www.ronblond.com/MathGlossary/
Math Glossary - http://math.about.com/library/bla.htm
eGlossary (Grades 6-12) - http://www.glencoe.com/apps/eGlossary612/grade.php
Mathwords: Terms and Formulas from Beginning Algebra to Calculus - http://www.mathwords.com/
Glossary Entries - http://www.numbernut.com/glossary/index.shtml
Transformational Geometry - http://www.howe-two.com/nctm/
Alphabet Geometry: Flips, Slide, Turn - http://www.misterteacher.com/abc.html
Mathematics in Art and Architecture - http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/maa/tilings.pdf
Tessellate (Shodor) - http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/tessellate/
What are Tessellations? - http://www.coolmath.com/tesspag1.htm
Tessellations - http://www.tessellations.org/
Free Online Graph Paper / Grid Paper PDFs – http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/
One Stop Resource Shop – Numeracy ... Graphing - http://www.emteconline.co.uk/rnumeracy/rgraph/rgraph.htm
Eduplace Four-Quadrant Grid - http://www.eduplace.com/math/mhm/4/11/te_4_11_coord_ws1.pdf
Graph Paper – http://daphne.palomar.edu/mmumford/graphs.htm
Workshop 2
NASA, International Space Station - http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html
The Three Little Piggy-back Satellites - http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/st5/flingman.shtml
Polydron Ltd - http://www.polydron.co.uk/ or http://www.polydron.com/
Didax, Geofix (will hold bubble solution) - http://www.didax.com/geofix/
Didax, Geofix Models Gallery - http://www.didax.com/geofix/models/
Math and Origami (links) - http://oneweb.utc.edu/~deborah-mcallister/camta04origami.html
Ellison - http://www.ellison.com/corporate/
Nets for Geometric Solids - http://www.lifeisastoryproblem.net/explore/index_net.html
Nets of Polyhedra - http://mathematics.hellam.net/nets.html
Maths Net Interactive Geometry: Platonic Solids - http://www.mathsnet.net/geometry/solid/nets.html
Maths Net Interactive Geometry: Solids - http://www.mathsnet.net/geometry/solid/index.html
Paper Models of Polyhedra - http://www.korthalsaltes.com/
Net Hangman - http://www.compasslearningodyssey.com/sample_act/math3_4/MA3CA05a-package_preloader.swf - There are two parts – hangman and packaging (click on “ready”).
Ohio State - http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~fiedorow/math655/Euler.html
The Geometry Junkyard – Seventeen Proofs of Euler's Formula: V-E+F=2 - http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/euler/
Euler's Formula, Proof 10: Pick's Theorem – http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/euler/pick.html
Higher Dimensions - http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~fiedorow/math655/HyperEuler.html
MathWorld, V+F-E=2 - http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PolyhedralFormula.html
Rice University - http://math.rice.edu/~pcmi/sphere/gos6.html
NCTM Illuminations, Powerful Patterns - http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?ID=L144
Platonic Solids - http://www.mathsisfun.com/platonic_solids.html
NLVM, Platonic Solids - http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_128_g_3_t_3.html
Platonic Solids - http://www.mathacademy.com/pr/prime/articles/platsol/index.asp
3Quarks, GIF Animations, Platonic Solids - http://www.3quarks.com/GIF-Animations/PlatonicSolids/
Enchanted Learning, Platonic Solids - http://www.enchantedlearning.com/math/geometry/solids/
Platonic - http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/platonic.html
Platonic Solids and Plato's Theory of Everything - http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath096.htm
Platonic Solids - http://math.youngzones.org/PlatonicSolids.html
The Platonic Solids, Java Applet – http://www.walter-fendt.de/m14e/platonsolids.htm
Pictures of Platonic Solids - http://www.korthalsaltes.com/platonic_solids_pictures.html
Workshop 3
Multimedia Math Glossary - http://www.hbschool.com/glossary/math2/index.html
Talk About Math – http://www.talkaboutmath.org/
Polydron Ltd – http://www.polydron.com/ (Numeracy Triangles tab, User Manuals tab)
Numeracy (or Quantitative Literacy) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeracy
Kaleidocycles (equilateral triangle) - http://www.mathematische-basteleien.de/kaleidocycles.htm
Stardust: NASA’s Comet Sample Return Mission - http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html
Amazing Space: Comets - http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/resources/explorations/comets/lesson/lab.html
Funschool: Comets - http://funschool.kaboose.com/formula-fusion/games/game_comets.html
Comets (Nine Planets) – http://www.nineplanets.org/comets.html
Comets: Zoom Astronomy - http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/comet/
Comets (Windows to the Universe) - http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/comets/comets.html
Games: Challenger Learning Center of Oklahoma City - http://www.challengerok.org/id14.html
Lower Hudson Valley Challenger Center - http://www.lhvcc.com/coollink.html
Women in Aviation Resource Center - http://www.women-in-aviation.com/Education/Just_For_Kids/
Challenger Center: Online Resources - http://www.challenger.org/students/info/index.cfm
Challenger Center: Games and Activities - http://www.challenger.org/students/fun/index.cfm
Added for 2009-2010
Workshop 1
NASA Moon - http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/moon_worldbook.html
The Moon (GSFC) - http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/moonpage.html
Google Moon - http://www.google.com/moon/
Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite - http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/impact/event_index.html
The Moon (Nine Planets) - http://nineplanets.org/luna.html
The Moon (false color from Galileo) - http://obs.nineplanets.org/psc/lunam.html
World Space Week - http://www.worldspaceweek.org/index.html
StarDate Online - Moon Phase Calculator - http://stardate.org/nightsky/moon/
Earth and Moon Viewer - http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/
Lego Education - http://www.legoeducation.us/store/
Simple Machines - http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/simmach.html
Museum of Science and Industry (search for simple machines) - http://www.msichicago.org/online-science/simple-machines/simple-machines-launch/
Integer Bars - http://www.arcytech.org/java/integers/integers.html
Math Cats Math Toolbox - http://www.mathcats.com/mathtoolbox/index.html
Welcome to Math Playground - Math Bars - http://www.mathplayground.com/mathbars.html
Cuisenaire Rods - A Few Uses (in developing language skills) - http://www.developingteachers.com/newsletterplans/cuisenaire_rods.htm
Rod Towers (K-2 lesson plan) - http://www.mathsolutions.com/documents/978-0-941355-79-7_L.pdf
Fractions with Cuisenaire Rods - http://www.learner.org/courses/learningmath/number/session8/part_b/try.html
Lab a Dab a Do! (scroll to Cuisenaire Rods) - http://www.labadabado.com/
NEIRTEC Mathematics Resources - http://www.neirtec.org/math/
Workshop 2
Zometool - http://www.zometool.com/
Zometool - Lesson Plans - http://www.zometool.com/Resources/Lesson_Plans
Zome System - Beginning Bubbles - http://www.mindspark.biz/pdfs/lessonplans/beginning_bubbles.pdf
Simple Machines for Kids - http://www.appliancepartspros.com/simple-machines-for-kids.aspx
NASA Education Materials - http://search.nasa.gov/search/edFilterSearch.jsp?empty=true
Space Thrills Poster (K-4) - http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/Space_Thrills_Poster.html
Station Spacewalk Game - http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/3d_resources/station_spacewalk_game.html
NASA - International Space Station - http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html
Global Climate Change - NASA's Eyes on the Earth - http://climate.nasa.gov/esw/
Ares I Can Model - http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/Ares_I_Can_Model.html
NCTM Illuminations - Cubes - http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=6
NLVM - Space Blocks (K-2) - http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_195_g_1_t_3.html?open=activities&from=category_g_1_t_3.html
Workshop 3
Welcome to Polydron - http://www.polydron.co.uk/
Polydron User Guides - http://shop.polydron.co.uk/cgi-bin/open.cgi?userid=19105109&page=/userguides¤cy=pounds
Illuminations: Building a Box - http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?id=L570
Illuminations: Fishing for the Best Prism - http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=5756
Math Cats - Geometric Construction Sets - http://www.mathcats.com/grownupcats/geometrykits.html
Geometry Page - http://www.superliminal.com/geometry/geometry.htm
Polydron Fun (Grades 3-10) - http://www.shawnee.edu/acad/ms/ENABLdocs/Summer08pdfs/Polydrons%20Lesson%20Plan.pdf
Surface Area with Polydrons (Grades 3-10) - http://www.shawnee.edu/acad/ms/ENABLdocs/MayFollowuppdfs/Surface%20Area%20with%20Polydrons.pdf
Polydron - nrich - http://nrich.maths.org/4
Face Painting - nrich - http://nrich.maths.org/523
Investigating Patterns - Polyhedra Pasttimes - http://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/jbpolyhedra.htm
Geometry Junkyard: Polyhedra and Polytopes - http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/polytope.html
Geometry Junkyard: Three-dimensional Geometry - http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/3d.html
The Six Faces of Garbage - http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/nttidb/lessons/id/grbgeid.html
Using Manipulatives in the Teaching of K-12 Geometry - http://www.york.cuny.edu/~malk/geometricstructures/manipulatives.html
Polyhedral Links - http://www.orchidpalms.com/polyhedra/links.html
Euler’s Formula - http://s89940423.onlinehome.us/images/a/a0/Euler.pdf
Investigating Nets and Polyhedra - http://images.rbs.org/activities_plans/media/plans/101_investigating_nets.pdf
Tanacube - http://tanacube.com/
Tregarth Primary School - http://www.woollythoughts.com/schools/tregarth.html
Let’s Slide, Flip and Turn - http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=5756
Creating Two-dimensional nets of Three-dimensional Shapes Using Geometer's Sketchpad - http://www.k-12prep.math.ttu.edu/journal/technology/maida01/article.pdf
Modeling Nature - http://www.vanderbilt.edu/modeldata/polyhedra/curri_polyhedra_intro.htm
The Second Platonic Solid - http://www.arm.catholic.edu.au/educational-resources/curriculum/mathematics-folder/bev-dunbar-resources/space-is-a-verb/3D%20Platonic%20Solids%20Cube%20Tasks.pdf
Nets
Didax, Geofix - http://www.didax.com/geofix/
Didax, Geofix Models Gallery - http://www.didax.com/geofix/models/
Nets for Geometric Solids - http://www.lifeisastoryproblem.net/explore/index_net.html
Know Your Nets - http://www.wrightgroup.com/download/cp/g7_geometry.pdf
Paper Models of Polyhedra - http://www.korthalsaltes.com/
MathsNet Interactive Geometry: Platonic Solids - http://www.mathsnet.net/geometry/solid/nets.html
MathsNet Interactive Geometry: Solids - http://www.mathsnet.net/geometry/solid/index.html
Annenberg: Nets - http://www.learner.org/channel/courses/learningmath/geometry/session9/part_b/index.html
Solid Shapes and Their Nets - http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/solid/
Nets of Polyhedra - http://mathematics.hellam.net/nets.html
The Geometry Junkyard: Unfolded Polyhedra - http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/unfold.html
Net Hangman - http://www.compasslearningodyssey.com/sample_act/math3_4/MA3CA05a-package_preloader.swf - There are two parts - hangman and packaging (click on ready).
Welcome to Ellison - http://www.ellison.com/
Paper Manipulatives
Large Hexagon for Pattern Block Set Clipart - http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/40600/40681/pb_hex_40681.htm - (print p. 2)
Hexagon from Kaleidocycles - http://www.mathematische-basteleien.de/kaleidocycles.htm
Hand Made Manipulative Instructions - http://mason.gmu.edu/~mmankus/Handson/manipulatives.htm
Misc.
Soccer Ball Math - http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:QxH3TFq-0GIJ:transitions.kennesaw.edu/modules/soccerballmath/soccer.doc+polydron&cd=396&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari
Math Games: Supermagnetic Polyhedra - http://www.maa.org/editorial/mathgames/mathgames_03_29_04.html
NASA
Butterflies in Space - http://www.bioedonline.org/space/STS_Mission_129.cfm or http://www.k8science.org/space/STS_Mission_129.cfm
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