From the Earth to the Moon -- Issue 29 -- July 18-24, 2009

This week's standards:
Students understand science and technology. (Science: Science and Technology) Students understand the abilities of technological design. (Science: Science and Technology)

Activities:
1. Draw a large moon on a piece of paper. Paste newspaper words and pictures that tell about space on your moon.

2. Cut out newspaper pictures of different types of transportation. Paste your pictures in a line showing how people use different transportation depending on how far they want to go. Start with transportation that goes short distances, like a bicycle. End with transportation that goes long distances, like airplanes.

3. Pretend you are in charge of selecting the first people to live in a moon colony. Find five people in the newspaper you would ask to work in the colony. Write a sentence explaining why you chose each one.

4. Which of the Apollo missions (a) first landed on the moon, (b) had a scary experience, and (c) had the first humans orbit the moon?

5. Make a list of five reasons why we should continue to invest in the space program. Now write a letter supporting space exploration to a representative in Congress.

(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)