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EDUCATOR’S RESOURCE GUIDE Grades 3-5 Dear Teacher: Take your students on an awe-inspiring trip around our world: a magnificent blue planet, dotted with gossamer clouds and gleaming in sunlight, whose beauty transforms and evolves with each passing day. EARTH OBSERVATION ENGINEERING DESIGN A FROM THE ISS MARVEL SPACE STATION We invite you and your students Students will identify the Students will understand Students will use teamwork to look through the eyes of regions, landmarks, and the uniqueness and to design, engineer, and astronauts on the International activities presented by each importance of the ISS from build their own Space astronaut photograph taken a science, engineering, and Station. Space Station (ISS), witnessing

Objectives from the ISS. cultural point of view. breathtaking views of Earth and Introduce students to an Begin by going over all the Lead students in a taking a hopeful look into the overhead perspective different modules of the ISS discussion on what rooms, future of humanity and beyond in of Earth from the ISS with students and discuss or modules, a house has; approximately 250 miles why each part is important for example, a kitchen, a A Beautiful Planet. Book a field above the planet’s surface. to the Space Station’s sleeping area, a bathroom, trip to your local IMAX® theatre Discuss how parts of the success. Discuss why the and a living room. The ISS planet may look different ISS and the astronauts who has the same rooms that to give your students a closer from space than they do live on it are important. a house might have in look at the wonders of our world. from the ground. Once addition to a laboratory for students complete the experiments. Use the items The engaging classroom activities activity, lead a discussion below to demonstrate how in this guide, inspired by the based on each image. to connect bottles with PVC connectors in order to build film, will enhance your students’ their own Space Station. Teacher Prep Teacher understanding of the Earth, the You Will Need: PVC pipe importance of the ISS, and the connectors (T-connectors, elbow connectors, and work that’s being done to conserve straight connectors); our planet and its resources. two-liter bottles; stiff cardboard; foil; sharp Visit imax.com/abp for additional scissors; glue; tape; colored activities and fun facts. permanent markers. Visit http://www.windows Engage students by visiting Try adding a robotic arm to Enjoy the show! onearth.org to see more the following website and service your Space Station. beautiful images of the watching videos about the Learn more about the To book a field trip, contact your local IMAX earth from space. ISS: http://www. robotic arm of the ISS at: theatre today. Visit www.imax.com/subscribe SpaceStationExplorers.org http://bit.ly/Canadarm2 These videos will highlight to sign up for the latest news and updates all the modules of the ISS on IMAX educational programs and events. and give students a more For locations near you, visit IMAX.com. visual understanding of the Extension Activity Space Station as a whole.

Lessons address NGSS standards: Engineering Design; Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions; From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes; Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics; Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity; Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits; Earth’s Systems; and Organization for Matter and Energy Flow in Organisms. For additional educational support, more extension activities about the ISS and further information on A Beautiful Planet, visit imax.com/abp

Special acknowledgment and thanks to the Center for Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) and NASA for their contributions. WHAT ON EARTH IS THAT? EARTH OBSERVATION FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

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‌he International Space Station (ISS) has Below are five images of different Ta module, or ‌room, called the cupola. The locations on Earth. Pay close cupola is a dome-shaped room with seven attention to the details in each windows where astronauts control the image to determine its location. Space Station’s robotic arm, communicate with other crew members, and observe spacewalks. It is also a favorite hangout for YOUR TASK astronauts who take hundreds of photos of the Earth each day! These photos help us Select the correct description to understand and appreciate our home planet. become an Eagle-Eye Astronaut!

a. Cotton fields in the southern d. Glaciers atop a. Nighttime view of Florida d. Coastal fires on islands United States Mt. Everest in the b. Nighttime close-up of off mainland China b. Puffy, cumulus clouds over Himalayan Mountains a city near a Russian e. Highway lights at night in 1 the eastern coast of Africa e. An iceberg floating in mountain range Chile, near Patagonia 2 c. Air pollution over Beijing, China the Arctic Ocean c. Nighttime view of Italy

a. Snow swirling on massive ice d. Close up of clouds over a. An island in Antarctica d. A very shallow reef off the floes near Barrow, Alaska mountains above a city b. An island in the Bahamas coast of South America b. A rare tropical snowstorm e. Transportation routes off the U.S. coast e. An underwater mountain 3 c. Northern lights (Aurora) over between Russia and the c. The Great Barrier Reef in the middle of the 4 the North Pole in winter United States in winter in Australia Pacific Ocean

BONUS An astronaut on the Space Station photographed Hurricane Olaf as the orbiting laboratory passed over the Pacific Ocean, as part of a study on severe storms. Hurricanes north of the equator spin, a. They do not rotate in a counterclockwise direction. b. Clockwise direction Which way do hurricanes rotate c. Counterclockwise south of the equator? direction THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION AN ENGINEERING MARVEL

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YOUR MISSION ‌he ISS is an engineering marvel! It was constructed in space by 16 Read the passage on the right about Tdifferent countries over 10 years. The ISS weighs 460 tons – that’s the International more than 320 ______! It is approximately the size of a Space Station (ISS). U.S. football field, or more than 1.5 ______fields. A crew Even though there of six people live and work on the ISS, which travels at a speed of 5 miles are missing words, can you guess which per second (8 km per second). At that speed, it takes ______word belongs in each ______to make one complete path, or ______, blank? Use the Word around the Earth! This is why astronauts on the ISS see about 15 sunrises List to complete the selection. Each word and sunsets every 24 hours. will only be used once. The ISS is made up of many rooms, or ______. Some are used for storage and contain life-support systems, and others are where WORD LIST the crew works and ______. In 2005, Congress designated the crane U.S. part of the ISS as the nation’s newest national laboratory. It is here Space Station that astronauts work on life and ______science experiments modules that may benefit people living on Earth. The Cupola module is a favorite spot solar arrays soccer for astronauts. It is a 7-window observation area where astronauts can view Earth ______from 250 miles (402 km) straight up! telescope sleeps More than one acre of ______provide power to orbit this orbiting laboratory, making it the third-brightest object in the night sky. plant The ISS is so bright, that it can be seen without a ______spacewalk at night. It looks like a fast-moving airplane, but it is many times higher and 90 minutes travels much, much faster than an airplane. automobiles Another important feature of the ______is the Canadarm2. It is a huge, remote-controlled robotic arm that works like a ______. It can be used to help astronauts perform tasks outside of the Station during a ______.

For a tour of the ISS visit: http://www.SpaceStationExplorers.org ANSWERS (in order): automobiles, soccer, 90 minutes, orbit, modules, sleeps, plant, Earth, solar arrays, telescope, Space Station, crane, spacewalk. ANSWERS (in order): automobiles, soccer, A R DE NAME G DESIGN A

‌he International Space Station (ISS) travels in a SPACE STATION Tpath, or orbit, above Earth. It makes one complete orbit every 90 minutes traveling at 5 miles per second, or 17,500 mph (28,163kph)! Astronauts live and work there conducting science experiments and learning about life in space. Astronauts are transported to the ISS via rocket.

“DESTINY” US “ZVEZDA” RUSSIAN YOUR MISSION NATIONAL LAB SERVICE MODULE An engineer designs tools and machines to solve problems. CUPOLA Imagine you are an engineer. How could you design a Space Station like the one the astronauts are living and working in? RUSSIAN TRUSS DOCKING SEGMENTS COMPARTMENT

“KIBO” YOUR TASK JAPANESE “COLUMBUS” EXPERIMENT EUROPEAN Work as a team to MODULE MODULE BRAINSTORM SOLAR ARRAYS 1 brainstorm a design “CANADARM2” ROBOTIC ARM for your Space Station. What does a Space Station need to keep humans alive? What is it like to live in space? Would you float DEBRIEF instead of walk? How would you sleep? How would 6 Discuss with your team: you exercise? How will you provide electricity for • Did your team use all the materials provided? living and working? Why or why not? • Which materials were most important in your Examine the materials your teacher has 2 LIST Space Station design? made available. Make a list of the materials • How did working as a team help in the design process? you will use to create your Space Station and draw a sketch of your team’s design before you build it. • Were there any disadvantages to designing and building as a team? • What did you learn from seeing what the other Cut out a window in the DESIGN teams developed? 3 side of each one of the bottles and design the inside of • What advice would you give to a team that was each room, or module. about to complete this same task? • Imagine NASA will start Connect your Space Station’s flying student ASSEMBLE 4 modules using glue and PVC joints. astronauts to You can use tape to hold the joints the Space Station together while the glue dries. for two-week expeditions. What changes Test your team’s Space Station to make 5 TEST would you make sure it is strong and will not break where to the ISS? the modules connect. List the strengths and weaknesses of your design and note any ways you could make it more functional and livable.