Presented by Dana Kickler & Amanda Quick
Campus Instructional Technologists
Northside Independent School District
International Space Station Educators Conference
February 8, 2003

 

These projects will help you to have an organized location for some great resources about the International Space Station.
Online-based projects
Lesson Ideas
Subject Sampler - Finding the Who, What, Why, Where, When, and How about the ISS.
Gravity
Subject Sampler - Includes a virtual tour, the components, and tracking of the ISS. Original project located at:
http://www.pavenet.org/ftp/users/all_share/Cohort4/portfolios/JMotes/
Subject%20Sampler%20Template.html
History of Space Travel
Web Quest - NASA is out of money to support the ISS and your job is to find a way to keep it going. Original project located at:
http://www.pavenet.org/FTP/Users/all_share/Cohort4/5319Project/ISS/
International Space Station
 

Other Resources

Image Resources

NASA Image Exchange (NIX)
http://nix.nasa.gov/

Great Images in NASA (GRIN)
http://grin.hq.nasa.gov

JSC Imagery Sevices - over 9,000 press release images
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/

NASA Human Spaceflight
Video and Image Gallery
http://spaceflight.sc.wip.
psiweb.com/gallery/
or
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/
gallery

Marshall Image Exchange
http://mix.msfc.nasa.gov/

Planetary Photojournal
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/

Space Shuttle Missions
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/
shuttle/photos/

Space Image Libraries
http://www.okstate.edu/aesp/
image.html

 

 

Information Resources

For Kids

StarChild - This NASA site has information on both level 1 and level 2 reading levels.
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/StarChild.html

NASA Kids
http://nasakids.com/
ISS page - http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov/c.aspx/rockets/station/

SpaceKids
http://www.spacekids.com/spacenews/
ISS_overview_000419.html

DiscoverySchool - site for students about the ISS
http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/spacestation/

For Teachers

Central Operation of Resources for Educators - This is a resource for multimedia materials for the classroom and the "Resources" link gives a thorough description of each ot the major NASA sites. http://core.nasa.gov/

NASA Explores - Search for space-related lessons
http://nasaexplores.com/cgi-bin/index.pl

DiscoverySchool Space Lessons - Scroll down to Astonomy/Space Science for lessons. These lessons are geared toward grades 6-8 but can be easily adapted for 3-5.
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/6-8.html

NASA Education Program: Electronic Field Trips - A listing of ways to participate in electronic field trips to NASA for those who cannot physically visit a site.
http://education.nasa.gov/fieldtrip.html

See Learning in a Whole New Light - Nominate a teacher for the NASA's Educators Astronaut Program,
learn about the current astronauts, becoming an astronaut, living in space, or join the Earth Crew and
become part of the Educators Program.
http://edspace.nasa.gov/home.html

Kennedy Space Center - Excellent multimedia gallery and "Educator Resources". http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/

NASA Space Research - Office of Biological and Physical Research: go to "Fun and Learning" - "Educational Resources" for curriculum materials, go to "Research and Projects" - "Research on Station" to learn about all the current experiments on the station.
http://spaceresearch.nasa.gov/

Johnson Space Center - Go to the Education link on the right for curriculum materials.
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/

Marshall Space Flight Center
Check out their Liftoff to Learning page where you can track satellites, spacecraft, and the ISS.
http://www.msfc.nasa.gov/

Challenger Center for Space Science Education - ISS page - download ISS curriculum materials
http://www.challenger.org/tr/tr_body_act_station.htm

NASA Spacelink; Resource for Education
http://spacelink.nasa.gov/.index.html

NASA Human Spaceflight - http://spaceflight.nasa.gov

NOVA's "Stationed in the Stars"
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/station/

PBS's Space Station site
http://www.pbs.org/spacestation/

DiscoverySchool's site on ISS
http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/
spacestation/index.html

Space.com

Virtual Astonaut
http://virtualastronaut.jsc.nasa.gov/

Spaceflight Now
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/

Boeing's ISS site - lots of info on structure and assembly
http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/spacestation/flash.html

Glenn Research Center's Science Educator's Resources - list of sites for human exploration, space, earth, and aerospace science.
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/OEP/NASASciResources.htm

Software Resources

Inspiration
http://www.inspiration.com/home.cfm

Timeliner
http://www.tomsnyder.com/products/
productdetail.asp?PS=TIMV50

 

 

 

Credits

"Human Space Flight Web Gallery." NASA Human Space Flight. . NASA. 03 Feb. 2003 <http://spaceflight.sc.wip.psiweb.com/gallery/images/station/index.html>.