Space Adventurers Teach Students About Jobs in Space—And Let Them Take a Virtual Trip to Mars at Imagine Their Own Out-Of-This-World Career

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Space Adventurers Teach students about jobs in space—and let them Take a virtual trip to Mars at imagine their own out-of-this-world career. scholastic.com /explorespace. Objective Directions Students will read nonfiction ➊ Project (or print and distribute) image it near the ISS. Ask: Why do you think text about space careers and of an astronaut-controlled robotic arm the crew didn’t go outside to capture the found at . answer questions using go.nasa.gov/2Zovt1M craft? (Spacewalks are dangerous and it’s safer to use the robotic arm.) evidence from the text. ➋ Ask: Can you guess where this picture was taken? (From the International ➎ Tell students they’re going to read Time Space Station [ISS] in orbit.) Ask how a passage to learn about careers in they think the spacecraft got into orbit. 40 minutes space. Distribute the passage and Explain that the parts or modules of activity sheet to the class. the ISS were sent up on rockets and Materials assembled in space. ➏ After students have finished, review answers as a class. Then Super Space Careers ➌ Initiate a class discussion about provide time for students to make reading passage who might be inside the ISS operating their own ISS ID cards. They should the equipment (a team of astronauts). What’s Your Space Job? draw themselves on the front, label activity sheet ➍ Point out the robotic arm. Explain the ID with their job, and describe that the cargo craft was sent into space their skills and tasks on the back of to bring supplies. The robotic arm was the card. Then, check out our other used to capture the cargo craft and keep space-inspired lessons online!

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Super Space Careers

Do you think it would be awesome to work to conduct in outer space someday? By the time you’re experiments while grown up, there will be missions to space they’re in space. But stations, the moon, and Mars. Read on to they spend most of Rocket their time on Earth, learn about the real-life skills you might engineer need for a job in space! training or helping other astronauts from the ground. ROCKET ENGINEERS design Problems they solve: During training, rockets and other spacecraft. they must learn how to survive and work Science they use: Rocket engineers in space. They use special equipment create rockets that can escape Earth’s called simulators that make it feel like gravity (that’s the force that pulls objects they’re in space. down). Rockets work using a process Skills: Engineering and called propulsion to fly into outer space. operating spacecraft; If you’ve ever let go of a balloon you’ve calculus and algebra; blown up, you’ve seen propulsion at physical fitness; work. Air escaping from the end of the collaboration. balloon moves it forward in the opposite ROBOTICS direction. A rocket basically does the ENGINEERS design, same thing to fly into space. test, and build robots. Problems they solve: Rocket engineers Science they use: have to design spacecraft that doesn’t These engineers create Robotics carry extra weight or air resistance and is engineers robots (machines safe and effective. that do dangerous or hard jobs) Working with advanced Skills: and computer software to perform computers; coding; writing reports; important tasks in outer space. geometry and physics; teamwork. Problems they solve: Robotics ASTRONAUTS travel into space engineers make it easier for astronauts to complete missions. to explore parts of space that aren’t safe Science they use: Astronauts use for humans. They also solve other space science and engineering skills challenges, like creating a robotic arm to help an astronaut lift heavy equipment. Astronaut Skills: Working with computer design programs; coding; algebra and calculus; critical thinking; problem-solving. Photo: Astronaut, Михаил Руденко/iStock; robotics engineer, zoranm/iStock; rocket engineer, LightFieldStudios/iStock engineer, rocket zoranm/iStock; Photo: Astronaut, Михаил Руденко/iStock; robotics engineer, Sponsored Educational Materials ACTIVITY

Name ______

What’sResearch Your Space Guide Job? Read “SuperRead Space “Get Careers,” Ready for then Your use Dream information Job in Space!” from the textand toanswer fill in the the following chart below. questions. Be sure to use

Define these jobs Problems they solve

Rocket Engineer

Robotics Engineer

Astronaut

Write answers to these questions on the back of this page. 1. Which job interests you the most? Why? 2. What skills will you need? 3. What could you do to start practicing those skills? ©2019 The LEGO Group. of the LEGO Group. and/or copyrights the LEGO logo and Minifigure are trademarks LEGO, Sponsored Educational Materials

LESSON FOR GRADES 2–5

➌ Out-of-This-World Informational Texts Students take a virtual trip Introduce your students to the future of space travel as to Mars at scholastic.com they analyze reading passages and space vocabulary. /explorespace.

Objective Part A Part B Students use text features and Exploring the Inside of a Spaceship Building Vocabulary on Mars visual information to learn about ➊ Hook students by asking how they would ➊ Ask students to imagine they have a spaceship’s interior, and infer survive if they were able to travel to space. landed on Mars. What do they think they’ll the meaning of space-related Where would they sleep? How would they see? How will they feel? What would they vocabulary words. stay clean in space? need to survive? Explain that they will be investigating facts about Mars and learning Standards (CCSS) ➋ Explain that students will read an new vocabulary. Grs 2–4: RI.7: Use diagrams to informational article about the interior of a explain text spaceship. ➋ Distribute the Exploring Mars reading passage for students’ grade level. Read ➌ Distribute the Take a Tour of a Spaceship Grs 2–5: RI.1: Use text details the article as a class, stopping to infer the reading passage for students’ grade level to answer questions meaning of the space vocabulary words. RI.5: Use text features and/or and preview its structure. ➌ Discuss what structure ➍ Grades 2–3: L.4: Determine the meaning of students learned  unknown words Review the text features that help about life on Mars from students understand informational reading the article. Ask: Time texts, including headings, bold words, Would you want to visit and captions. Mars? Why or why not? Part A: 40 minutes  Have students act out different text Part B: 40 minutes ➍ Guide students in features as a class (e.g., jumping and creating a vocabulary Materials waving to represent the prominence of graphic organizer for a a heading). selection of the bold words in the passage. Take a Tour of a Spaceship Include the definition, an example, a non- reading passage Grades 4–5:  Describe in words a device with example, and a drawing (Frayer model  Passage A: Gr. 2–3 many parts, like a washing machine organizer). If you have time, challenge  Passage B: Gr. 4–5 or a hairdryer. Ask students if they students to find creative ways to act out What’s in a Spaceship activity understand what you’re describing. the words. sheet (Gr. 2–3) Show a picture and ask again. ➎ Ask questions using the space-related Emphasize that visuals and diagrams Use Diagrams to Explore Space vocabulary words (e.g., When would you use can be important for comprehension. a sensor?). activity sheet (Gr. 4–5) ➎ Distribute the activity sheet for students’ ➏ Have students select two space Exploring Mars reading passage grade level. vocabulary words from the list and write  Passage A: Gr. 2–3 ➏ Have students read the article and a sentence using both. You can challenge  Passage B: Gr. 4–5 complete the activity sheet to guide their students to include a certain mood in their analysis of the text. space sentence: exciting, silly, scary, etc.

EXTENSION SPACE FICTION Challenge students to use what they learned to write a story featuring at least two space vocabulary words, two parts of a spaceship, and two space careers! Sponsored Educational Materials READING PASSAGE

Take a Tour of a Spaceship What’s it like to live inside a rocket that is zooming high above the Earth? Read on to find out!

ockets once took astronauts to the moon. Now the U.S. is preparing to go back to the moon, and even R to Mars. While traveling through space, the astronauts will need to work, eat, and sleep in tight quarters. The high-tech spacecraft that blasts them into space is specially built to keep them safe as they complete their mission and return home. Astronauts Inside a spacecraft, you might see: working in an Orion test FOLDAWAY SEATS There are four seats in module. the spaceship: the commander and pilot sit in the front row facing a control panel. space, they can sleep straight up or upside Two more astronauts sit directly behind down—because they are floating in almost them. They are strapped in on their backs no gravity (called microgravity). for blastoff, and the seats fold away once PERSONAL HYGIENE KIT It includes a they’re in orbit so they have more room. hairbrush (even though your hair will CONTROL PANEL How do astronauts drive stick straight up in microgravity) and a the spaceship? By computer, mostly. toothbrush. Toothpaste is so thick that With the help of touch-screen monitors, it sticks to a toothbrush in space, but they direct the ship, monitor its electrical water comes out of a hose in bubbles that systems, and communicate with Earth. astronauts catch with their mouths! DOCKING HATCH Astronauts wiggle into SPACE TOILET The toilet is a small the spaceship through an opening at the camping-style unit with a privacy curtain. top, the same hatch they use to let robot At its side is a hose with a funnel at the end landers out to explore the moon or Mars. for collecting urine. Both have suction to The hatch also helps the ship dock onto a move the waste away. larger space station. TRASH CANS Astronauts have chores in HAND CONTROLLERS The crew uses these space, and that includes taking out the to pilot the ship once they’re in space. garbage. They use a lot of wet wipes to SLEEPING BAGS Astronauts sleep inside clean both themselves and the spaceship. sleeping bags, which they attach to the VIDEO CAMERA It lets astronauts chat with wall to keep themselves from floating people back on Earth, including their into each other while they snooze! In family and friends! ©2019 The LEGO Group. of the LEGO Group. copyrights and/or trademarks are and the Minifigure LEGO, the LEGO logo NASA Photo: Sponsored Educational Materials ACTIVITY

Name ______Use Diagrams to Explore Space Readers use text and visuals to understand something new. Look at the diagram and write captions to describe the highlighted items. Refer to the text passage if you need help.

Exploring Mars What’s it really like on the red planet? With the help of cutting-edge robots, we’ll find out soon!

s there life on Mars? Could people actually live there one day? These are questions that America’s space I program, called NASA, wants to answer. It’s been 50 years since an astronaut walked on the moon. Now NASA is eager to get back there, and to send robots all the way to Mars to explore. In 2020, Mars and Earth will be orbiting close to one another, like they do every couple of years, and several countries are The Mars 2020 planning to send rovers to find out more rover has a powerful about the Red Planet, named for the rusty robotic arm. red dust on its surface. (Sometimes the dust blows into the planet’s atmosphere, The rover’s assortment of instruments making the sky look pink!) It’s a big trip: includes a drill at the end of its robotic The U.S. rover, called Mars 2020, will arm to dig for soil samples that astronauts launch in July 2020, but won’t land on will collect and bring back to Earth; an Mars until February 2021! advanced camera system; sensors to test temperature, wind speed, and direction; What A Rover Looks Like and a high-tech X ray tool to analyze the Mars 2020 is about the size of a car at chemical makeup of rocks at a fine scale. 10 feet long, nine feet wide, and seven feet tall. This rover is tough, which is What’s Next? important. (An older spacecraft got its While NASA is getting ready to launch probe stuck while trying to burrow into Mars 2020, it is also testing and preparing Martian soil for samples.) It has six rugged its newest spacecraft, called Orion, to wheels, each with its own motor, to take take humans to the moon and to Mars. it over Mars’s rough, dry surface, which is But that won’t happen until sometime in covered with craters and old volcanoes. It the 2030s. First, we need to learn much also has the most powerful robotic arm more about this mysterious planet. If its ever built for a rover. This adaptable arm hostile environment can support people, can withstand the extreme temperature maybe one day when you’re older you’ll changes and heavy dust on Mars. be able to visit Mars! ©2019 The LEGO Group. of the LEGO Group. copyrights and/or trademarks are and the Minifigure LEGO, the LEGO logo NASA/JPL-Caltech Photo: