International Space Station

Background Information

The Life in Space web site from Discovery.com is filled with timelines and virtual tours providing you with a plethora of information. The student version, Space-Age Living: Building the International Space Station, is more suitable for most children. The Human Space Flight Gallery includes video clips and images of the International Space Station. At spaceKids.com, students will view a color-coded, cliable diagram of the ISS. Each color represents a country. By clicking a color, students learn various facts about what that country contributed to the ISS.
http://www.discovery.com/stories/science/iss/news.html
http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/spacestation/
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/index.html
http://www.spacekids.com/iss/index.html

Lesson Ideas

Students who are working to improve their persuasive writing can create a flyer using Publisher (pdf format) after researching with the sites listed above. They may want to write about:

Why the space station should be funded (image 1 and image 2),
Why students should study science in school (Careers at NASA), or
Why a certain experiment should be taken onto the ISS and how it would work (A Mission for Science).

Using the Subject Samplers or the WebQuest provided on the main page are also excellent resources for having students learn the various components of the ISS.

Students could use Inspiration to create an informative diagram of the different components of the ISS. They should have a category for Missions where they can list the dates and names of the major missions (they can even include what made those missions special), a category for Astronauts where they can list the astronauts who have lived aboard the ISS, a category for Countries where they could list the different countries that are contributing to the ISS (and what they are contributing), and a category for Science where they can list the major areas of science experiments that are taking place on the ISS (and list some current experiments). The resources for this lesson would be the sites listed on the main page.


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

Background Information The Life in Space web site from Discovery.com is filled with timelines and virtual tours providing you with a plethora of information. The student version, Space-Age Living: Building the International Space Station, is more suitable for most children. The Human Space Flight Gallery includes video clips and images of the International Space Station. At spaceKids.com, students will view a color-coded, cliable diagram of the ISS. Each color represents a country. By clicking a color, students learn various facts about what that country contributed to the ISS. http://www.discovery.com/stories/science/iss/news.html http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/spacestation/ http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/index.html http://www.spacekids.com/iss/index.html
Lesson Ideas Students who are working to improve their persuasive writing can create a flyer using Publisher (pdf format) after researching with the sites listed above. They may want to write about: Why the space station should be funded (image 1 and image 2), Why students should study science in school (Careers at NASA), or Why a certain experiment should be taken onto the ISS and how it would work (A Mission for Science). Using the Subject Samplers or the WebQuest provided on the main page are also excellent resources for having students learn the various components of the ISS. Students could use Inspiration to create an informative diagram of the different components of the ISS. They should have a category for Missions where they can list the dates and names of the major missions (they can even include what made those missions special), a category for Astronauts where they can list the astronauts who have lived aboard the ISS, a category for Countries where they could list the different countries that are contributing to the ISS (and what they are contributing), and a category for Science where they can list the major areas of science experiments that are taking place on the ISS (and list some current experiments). The resources for this lesson would be the sites listed on the main page.