List of Lessons

• 1. SPACE SHUTTLE: Name four parts of shuttle and each part's function.
  
  
• 2. TRACKING IT ALL DOWN: Students construct the Tracking Data Relay Satellite System to help them understand how it works.
  
  
• 3. VOYAGER ACTIVITY: Students build a model of the spacecraft, Voyager, and study the planets it has explored.
  
  
• 4. GALILEO: Students construct the spacecraft, Voyager, and find out what we have learned about Jupiter.
  
  
• 5. NSCAT AND TOPEX (OCEAN OBSERVATION SYSTEMS): Understand how these spacecraft contribute to improved understanding of world climate.
  
  
• 6. PERSONAL HYGIENE STATION: Students build the personal hygiene station that is on the shuttle.
  
  
• 7. FEASTING IN SPACE: Students plan a menu for a 5-day mission. They will total the amount of calories to see that they are getting the amount required in space.
  
  
• 8. FLUIDS AND GRAVITY: Helps students understand that fluids are acted upon by gravity.
  
  
• 9/10. BROKEN PENCIL AND GHOST CRYSTALS: Both help students understand light refraction.
  
  
• 11. YOU ARE NOW LEAVING THE O-ZONE: Activity that helps students understand the importance of gases in the atmosphere.
  
  
• 12. CREWS' CLOTHING ACTIVITY, CLEANING ACTIVITY: Students understand how astronauts live in space.
  
  
• 13. SPACE ACTIVITIES TO DO WITH STUDENTS:
       A. Do a time capsule.
       B. Build a lunar rover.
       C. Do a shuttle and rocket launch.
  
  
• 14. SPACE Z'S: Students build a model of the sleeping system on the real shuttle to help them understand how astronauts sleep.