NASA Educator Guide: Rockets (Latest Release: 2020): Educator’s Guide with Activities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

* Paperback Version - 133 Pages - FULL COLOR *NASA Educator Guide: Rockets (Latest Release: 2020)Educator’s Guide with Activities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and MathematicsTeacher / Home Schooler take note! This is the latest release of the excellent NASA Educator's Guide on Rockets.The original Rockets Teacher Guide was published by NASA’s Education Division in the early-1990s.It has found widespread use in both formal and informal educational settings because of the exciting nature of the topic and because of its dynamic classroom activities that match and support both national and state education standards for science, mathematics, and technology.This revision of the guide updates educators on NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), an advanced rocket enabling human exploration beyond low-Earth orbit. SLS will be the most powerful rocket ever built. When completed, it will enable astronauts to begin their journey to explore destinations far into the solar system. The activities in this guide have not been changed.The Rockets Educator Guide provides you and your students many opportunities. Together, you will examine early rockets and meet thinkers and dreamers. You will learn about rocket science and mathematics and what rocket scientists do. You will see pictures of events and technologies spanning many years of space exploration - Sputnik, Apollo, and the space shuttle to name a few. You will see the future of space transportation.You will learn why rockets are the only vehicles that can “go where no one has gone before.”Will your students be a part of this future in space? Will they be the scientists, technicians, engineers, and mathematicians that make dreams of exploring space possible? Yes! This guide will help you prepare them for the wonders that are coming.Chapters within the guide present the history of rocketry, NASA’s Space Launch System, rocketry principles, and practical rocketry. These topics lay the foundation for what follows - a wealth of dynamic rocket science classroom activities that work. The activities focus on Sir Isaac Newton’s laws of motion and how they apply to rockets. They incorporate cooperative learning, problem solving, critical thinking, and hands-on involvement. They support national and state standards for science, mathematics, and technology across many grade levels.All of the activities are designed with the classroom in mind. They include clear descriptions, background information for the teacher and student, detailed procedures and tips, lists of readily available materials, assessments, questions for discussion, and extensions. The activities are designed to foster excitement and a passion for learning.The guide is versatile. It has been created as a two-to-six-week classroom unit, depending upon the grade level of the students but individual activities can be extracted and used as stand-alone classroom experiences. You will find activity objectives and principles clearly stated along with the vocabulary terms necessary for understanding the principles involved.There's much more to explore in this comprehensive Educators Guide for Rockets!Scroll up and click on the Add To Cart button and see for yourself! Read more