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Rockets Educator Guide
11.10.09 - The guide contains information about NASA's newest rockets, with both new activities and updated ones from the original Rockets Educator Guide published in 2003.
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Exploration: Then and Now -- Survival! Lesson
11.03.09 - Students answer the question: What are the most essential items for the survival of settlers and explorers in new worlds? The lesson includes a survival-on-the-moon activity.
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Ares I Can Model
10.26.09 - Build a model using canned foods to demonstrate NASA's Ares I rocket.
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Getting Dirty on Mars
10.20.09 - In this lab activity, students compare Earth soil to simulated Martian soil. Students collect and examine soil samples, just as NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission collects samples on the Red Planet.
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Pinwheel Activity Demos Jupiter's Great Red Spot
10.15.09 - To celebrate the Galileo mission's 20th anniversary, we've pulled a favorite fun activity from the archives: The Great Red Spot Pinwheel.
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1492: Using Data to Explain a Journey →
10.14.09 - MY NASA DATA provides this lesson plan to help students understand how Christopher Columbus made journeys across the Atlantic Ocean by examining wind patterns and data.
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Putting It Together
10.02.09 - In this game, players build the entire space station using all of the real modules. When completed, players are congratulated with a scene of Buzz Lightyear floating on board the station.
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On the Moon Educator Guide
09.22.09 - NASA and PBS's "Design Squad®" offer student teams six hands-on engineering challenges that can be used during class time or in after-school programs.
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Newton Car
09.22.09 - Students investigate the relationship between mass, acceleration and force as described in Newton's second law of motion.
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NASA -- Careers
09.15.09 - NASA is more than astronauts.