This is a lesson about the technology as it relates to heat transfer (conduction and convection)on the International Space Station. Learners will investigate how to build a space suit that keeps astronauts cool. This is technology activity 1 of 2... (View More) found in the ISS L.A.B.S. Educator Resource Guide. (View Less)

This is a lesson about how to plan a mission to explore another world in the Solar System. Learners will discuss the path of a spacecraft traveling between planets, examining the journey from the Earth to Mars as an example. In Activity 1, students... (View More) determine the pros and cons for different ways we can explore another world, either by observing from the Earth or by sending a spacecraft to fly by, orbit, or land on the world. In Activity 2, the students plan a complete mission to explore another world in the Solar System. By the end of the lesson, the students come to understand that what scientists want to learn about an object determines how they plan the mission, but real-life constraints such as cost and time determine what actually can be accomplished. (View Less)

This is a poster about the Deep Space Network. Learners can read about the network of dishes that recieve signals from space, space related careers, complete an activity about a mathematical model of how the Deep Space Network antennas work and how... (View More) the antennas concentrate electromagnetic radio waves in a single direction. (View Less)