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Space Projects
Take your students on a journey through space with projects that explore planets, stars, and galaxies. This collection includes building models of the solar system, studying constellations, and simulating space missions. By integrating these space projects into your teaching, you can inspire wonder and a deeper understanding of the cosmos.
Exploring the Solar System Project - Middle School Space
Science, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Space, Grade 6, 7, 8, Activities, Projects
Blast off on an exciting expedition through our cosmic neighborhood with this immersive 6-part solar system project! Students will embark on a journey of discovery to expand their knowledge of the planets that orbit our sun. The adventure begins by surveying key characteristics of the planets. Students will compare and contrast attributes like composition, size, moons, and more using interactive charts. These activities will build a foundation of knowledge about our stellar surroundings. Each student will then adopt an alien identity from one of the planets. Their mission is to gather intelligence about their new home world to create an engaging planetary fact file. This top-secret document will contain maps of unique features, details about survival in extreme conditions, and the planet's orbital path. Students will encrypt their findings in informative infographics. The quest continues as student aliens form contacts with beings from other worlds. In their teams, they will decipher similarities and differences between their planets using techniques like Venn diagrams. Patterns between planetary traits will become clearer. The students will then band together to design hidden settlements tailored to their adopted planet's environment. Infrastructure, culture, geography, and survival needs will dictate the layout of these extraterrestrial cities. Teams will create coded maps, diagrams, and written records to conceal their covert communities. Immersing themselves in alien personas, students will log journal entries chronicling daily life on their assigned planets. By pretending to inhabit these cosmic spheres, perspectives will be broadened. Finally, the project concludes by welcoming visitors to an intergalactic Planets Fair. Student aliens will showcase their classified findings by hosting creative exhibits about the celestial bodies we call neighbors. This galactic get-together celebrates exploration of the wonders in our solar system and beyond!
Author Teach With Fergy
Tags Space, Solar System, Astronomy, Planets, Sun, Space Project
Galileo Galilei Research Organizer & Essay Assignment
Social Studies, ELA, Biographies, History, History: World, History: Ancient, Science, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Space, Grade 7, 8, 9, 10, Activities, Projects, Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets
Without Galileo Galilei, the fields of astronomy, physics, and general science might not exist. This resource provides your students with the opportunity to independently learn about and summarize the life of the "father of modern science" with this engaging research planner and essay assignment. This carefully scaffolded and easy-to-assign-AND-assess resource has been designed to guide student learning from Galileo Galilei fact-collection to the careful development of a five-paragraph research essay. Teaching this resource could not be easier! Start by handing out the background research and note-taking worksheet (you could also ONLY hand this out if you want a shorter lesson!). Once students have found their facts and sources, provide them with the essay outline activity, which guides them step-by-step through the requirements of a short research essay. From there, drafting their essay, using the provided peer review checklist, and submitting their final draft will be no problem at all. And then you can assess their work with the provided Common Core rubric! Use this entire resource as a complete research lesson or just part of it as a short research activity or sub plan! This TeachSimple download includes: - A Galileo Galilei essay writing assignment with directions, requirements, research essay writing tips, a peer review checklist, and Common Core-tied grading rubric - An editable rubric, provided as a link, that lets you make adjustments to the grade values and guidelines. This link is provided as as Google Sheet specifically built for integration into Google Classroom, although you can also modify it for use in other Learning Management Systems (LMSs) - A Galileo Galilei biography and note-taking worksheet that will guide your students through information gathering. This straightforward two-page handout includes instructions for background research, a fun drawing section, and an area to cite quality sources and organize conducted research - A research essay outlining worksheet, so students build on their Galileo Galilei notes in a clear and simple manner as they build their work towards a draft and final paper - All 6-pages of this lesson are provided in full-color and B&W versions Although this resource can be fitted for any secondary Language Arts classroom, it has been carefully designed to work best in grades 8 through 11. The included rubric is subtly but specifically tied to Common Core ELA Standards for Language (3) and Writing (2 and 7). This resource is provided as a print-ready, bookmarked, and adjustable PDF file. The rubric is also included as an editable Google Sheet. This resource contains 6 pages and 1 Google Sheet.
Author The Language of Educational Art, LLC
Tags Essay, Rubric, Research, Notetaking, Outlining
Astronomy: A student’s book: history & facts about telescopes project
Social Studies, ELA, Biographies, Writing, Science, Inventors, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Space, Grade 4, 5, 6, 7, Activities, Projects, Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets
Astronomy: A student’s book: history & facts about telescopes project This Astronomy: A student’s book: history & facts about telescopes project is a booklet on the history/facts about telescopes and the lives of seven different inventors! Students are to research the information necessary to complete this Astronomy: A student’s book: history & facts about telescopes. Students are sure to increase their knowledge concerning tools of astronomy as well as the parts of the telescope. Additionally, there are opportunities for students to practice their essay writing skills with specific topics. There are 2 Quizzes included in this booklet as well as the Answer keys for easy checking. This Astronomy: A student’s book: history & facts about telescopes project includes the following TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1 Just what is a telescope? 2 Terminology 3 Parts of a telescope (Refracting telescope-fill in 3 a Answer key: Parts of a Refracting telescope 3 b: Research/Respond: What are the parts of a Reflecting Telescope? 4 Essay #1: How do telescopes work 5 Different types of telescopes 6 Essay #2 7 Essay #3: What is Optics 8 What is an observatory? 9 What is a planetarium? 10 What is the difference between a telescope and a periscope? 11 Leonardo da Vinci 12 Galileo Galilei 13 Hans Lippershey 14 Zacharias Janssen 15 Isaac Newton 16 Lyman Spitzer 16 a Edwin Hubble: His discoveries/ Hubble Telescope 17 Word Jumble/ Science Vocabulary 18 Answer key: Word Jumble 19 Word Search 20 Quiz #1:Fill in Facts about telescopes 21 Answer key: Quiz: Facts about telescopes 22 Mystery Quote Challenge 23 Answer key: Mystery Quote Challenge 24 Quiz #2: James Webb Telescope 25 Answer key: Quiz #2: James Webb Telescope This Astronomy: A student’s book: history & facts about telescopes project contains 32 pages and it is ready to print and use!
Author THE LANTERN OF KNOWLEDGE
Tags Astronomy, Telescopes, Da Vinci, Galileo, Hans Lippershey
Mission to Space Rocket Straws Project
Science, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Space, Grade 4, 5, 6, Activities, Projects
This resource is a Mission to Space Rocket Straws Project. Student groups will choose a planet to travel to. The project spends a few days covering the research of their planet. After they have completed their planets they will create rockets from straws and soap bottles. They will attempt to land on their planets with straw rockets in a relay type fashion.
Author Hey Teacher Shoppe
Tags General Science, Planets, Astronomy, Mission To Space, Project, Straw Rockets Lesson Plan