Made possible in part by STScI/NASA IDEAS Grant Program HST-ED-90285.01-A
Authored by: Challenger Learning Center of Northwest Indiana (Lisa Austgen, Rebecca Manis),
Challenger Learning Center at Prairie Aviation Museum (Janet Moore, Stacey Shrewsbury),
Illinois State University (Carl J. Wenning), Tarleton State University (Shaukat Goderya),
and Glenn Elementary School of Normal, Illinois (Cathy Bissoondial)
Copyright (c) 2007 Challenger Learning Center at Prairie Aviation
Museum
and
Challenger Learning Center of Northwest Indiana.
RENDEZVOUS WITH A COMET POWERPOINT
Challenger Center for Space Science Education Comet Booklet
(Last updated 7/16/2007)
Welcome to the Rendezvous with a Comet Teacher's Guide. Here you will find curriculum and instructional materials for implementing a 4-6 week unit associated with the Challenger Learning Center mission by the same name. This unit provides for 3-4 weeks of pre-mission activities, and for several days of post-mission activities. Whole chapters of the Teacher's Guide may be downloaded as PDF's by clicking chapter titles; sections of each chapter may be downloaded individually by clicking section headings.
Chapter 1: |
Introduction (contains all of the following individual sections in a single 8-page file) |
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Chapter 2: |
Design a Space Alien |
Sample Time Line | |
Chapter 3: |
Rendezvous with a Comet |
Sample Time Line | |
Job Application | |
Chapter 4: |
Whole Group Activities |
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Vocabulary | |
Chapter 5: |
Team Training |
COM/DATA | |
ISO | |
LS | |
DATA: | |
MED: | |
NAV | |
PROBE | |
REMOTE | |
PRESS | |
Chapter 6: |
Classroom Connections |
LANGUAGE ARTS | |
MATH | |
SCIENCE | |
SOCIAL STUDIES | |
TECHNOLOGY | |
Appendix: |
Scoring Rubrics: |
Support for program number HST-ED-90285.01-A was provided by NASA through a grant from the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Incorporated, under NASA contract NAS5-26555.