Made possible in part by STScI/NASA IDEAS Grant Program HST-ED-90285.01-A
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 7/10/2007)
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 | |
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| REMOTE | |
| PRESS | |
Chapter 6: |
Classroom Connections |
| LANGUAGE ARTS | |
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| MATH | |
| SCIENCE | |
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| 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.