Space Exploration Activity

Description

Space exploration is an amazing topic and your students will have SO much fun learning about NASA’s most influential missions plus some of the new missions such as the James Webb Space Telescope and the Artemis mission. With this interactive lesson and activity, students will learn all about so of the most important missions in space.

 

In addition, you will help reduce student cognitive load because this lesson breaks information into chucks, formatively assessing students along the way.

 

It’s also fun!

 

A PRINT AND DIGITAL VERSION IS INCLUDED!

 

 

This Space Exploration Lesson and Activity Covers:

• types of spacecraft: telescopes, rovers, probes, satellites, landers
• International Space Station
• Pioneer Probes
• Voyager Probes
• Cassini-Huygens mission
• WMAP
• NASA’s Great Observatories
• Hubble Space Telescope
• Compton Gamma Ray Observatory
• Chandra X-ray Observatory
• Spitzer Space Telescope
• Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
• James Webb Space Telescope
• Apollo
• Artemis
• Viking mission
• Spirit and Opportunity
• Perseverance Rover
• why space exploration is important
• and more!

 

 

This Space Exploration Activity and Interactive Activities Include:

• KWL
• exploring outside resources
• drag-and-drop
• type in the text box
• vocabulary matching
• and more!

 

There are 56 slides in all and an answer key is included! Be sure to add this to your space activity ideas!

 

This lesson pairs well with NC Standard: ESS.6.1.4

 

 

When you purchase this product, you will be given access to a link that will allow you to open the file that is compatible with Google Slides™. You will then be able to share this with your students. If you’d like, there is a PPT version as well!

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