WOMENs IN STEM
Leaders in building the early foundation of modern programming, unveiling the structure of DNA, and leading to the discovery of new genes. They also broke the sound barrier — and gender barriers along the way.
Inspiring more young women to pursue careers in science starts with simply sharing their stories.
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s MARY ANNING MARIE CURIE AMELIA EARHART JANE GOODALL MARGARET HAMILTON MAE JEMISON AGNES POCKELS SALLY RIDE NANCY GRACE ROMAN MARIE THARP
www.littlebinsforlittlehands.com www.littlebinsforlittlehands.com SCIENCE SUPPLIES FLOUR DAWN DISH SOAP SALT COTTON SWABS WATER s PENNIES ROUND COOKIE CUTTER EYEDROPPER DINOSAUR FIGURES OR PIPETTE BLACK CONSTRUCTION PAPER RED AND YELLOW TISSUE PAPER GRAY WASHABLE PAINT WHITE PAINT WHITE CHALK TOOTHPICK STRAW MINI (OR STAR) CARD STOCK MARSHMALLOWS TAPE TOOTHPICKS SCISSORS WHITE PAINT PRINTABLE 2 STYROFOAM CUPS MARKERS OR CRAYONS FOOD COLORING PAPER BAG PAPER PLATE GLUE STICK PHOTO OF YOURSELF RED AND BLUE BEADS KEY RING (OR ANY TWO COLORS) HELMET PRINTABLE STRING FULL FAT MILK
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Try to find all the words listed in the list below. Remember, the words can be up, down, diagonal, and backwards! ANNING JEMISON CURIE POCKELS EARHART RIDE GOODALL ROMAN HAMILTON THARP
www.littlebinsforlittlehands.com TOP SECRET SCIENTIST Make your own Secret Decoder Ring!
STEP 1: Print out the two page templates SUPPLIES: and the coded message page. STEP 2: Cut out each circle. Circle templates STEP 3: Place the middle circle on top Coded message of the larger circle so the letters and Scissors Paper fastener images line up. STEP 4: Place the smaller circle on top and use scissors or a nail to punch a hole through all the circles. STEP 5: Push the paper fastener through the circles and fasten.
Secret codes are similar to science investigations. They contain both direct and indirect evidence to help you draw conclusions and solve the code!
When you analyze the data from an investigation, you need to look at all the evidence. Sometimes the evidence is very clear and direct or observable and measurable. This is called direct evidence.
Evidence that is not as clear and measurable is called indirect evidence. This type of evidence you have to infer from what your data tells you or what you can see but can not actually measure.
Both types of evidence are used to draw conclusions and determine whether you have answered your question or proved your hypothesis or solved your code.
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MARY ANNING
Mary Anning was an English British fossil collector, dealer and paleontologist. She was not a trained scientist, but taught herself to read and write then read all about anatomy – her parents were too poor to send her to school.
The cliffs near where she lived in Dorset, England were rich with fossils Mary was never from the Jurassic period. Anning taken seriously as spent months uncovering the body of a scientist. It was her first fossil, a marine reptile that very unusual for swam in the time of dinosaurs. It was women at this later named Ichthyosaurus, which time to become means ‘fish lizard.’ She found the first ‘proper’ plesiosaur and a pterosaur as well. scientists. Today, Over the course of her life she made Mary is many incredible discoveries. This remembered as made her famous among some of the one of the most important scientists of the day. greatest fossil They would visit her for advice and to hunters to have discuss scientific ideas about fossils. ever lived. www.littlebinsforlittlehands.comwww.littlebinsforlittlehands.com MARY ANNING Fossils with salt dough SUPPLIES
Make your own salt dough fossils and explore 2 C all-purpose favorite dinosaur activities through fun play! bleached flour 1 C of salt STEP 1: Combine all the dry ingredients in a bowl 1 C of warm water and form a well in the center. Round cookie cutter STEP 2: Add the warm water to the dry ingredients Dinosaur Figures and mix together until it forms a dough. STEP 3: Roll the dough to ¼ inch thick or so and cut out round shapes with a circle cookie cutter. STEP 4: Take your favorite dinosaurs and press the feet into the salt dough to make dinosaur fossils. STEP 5: Place on a tray and leave for 24 to 48 hours to air dry. STEP 6: When the salt dough fossils are hard use them to create your own dino dig. Can you match each dinosaur fossil to the right dinosaur?
HOW ARE FOSSILS FORMED? Most fossils are formed when a plant or animal dies in a watery environ- ment and then is rapidly buried in mud and silt. The soft parts of the plants and animals break down leaving the hard bones or shells behind. Over time, small particles called sediment build up over the top and harden into rock. These clues of the remains of these animals and plants are preserved for scientists to find thousands of years later. These type of fossils are called body fossils.
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MARY ANNING
Try to find all the words listed in the list below. Remember, the words can be up, down, diagonal, and backwards! ICHTHYOSAURUS OCEAN SCIENTIST ENGLAND WOMAN CLIFFS PREHISTORIC FOSSILS DINOSAURS JURASSIC
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Use your decoder ring to reveal a quote by Mary Anning. ** Turn your coder so the letter A lines up with 9.
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Agnes Pockels was a pioneer in chemistry. Her work was fundamental in establishing the concept known as surface science, which describes the properties of liquid and solid surfaces.
As a child, Pockels was interested in As legend has it, Pockels discovered the science, and influence of impurities on the surface would have liked tension of fluids doing the dishes in her to study physics. own kitchen. She was unwed and the In those days, caretaker of her ailing parents, so she however, women had no access to spent much time cooking and cleaning universities. It was with various oils, soaps, and other only through her household products. Despite her lack of younger brother, formal training, Pockels was able to Friedrich Carl measure the surface tension of water by Alwin Pockels, devising an apparatus known as the that she gained access to scientific Pockels trough, a key instrument in the literature. new discipline of surface science.
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Learn from things found in your purse or pocket? Pennies How many drops of water can fit on a penny? Eyedropper or pipette STEP 1: Use an eyedropper or pipette to pick up and Water carefully drip one drop of water at a time onto the penny. STEP 2: Count how many drops you can fit onto one penny until the water overflows. STEP 3: Record your results. Try the same experiment with other coins.
WHAT IS HAPPENING? You might think that you can’t fit many drops of water on the surface of a penny. Pennies are just so small!
Surface tension and cohesion is the reason you can get so many drops of water on a penny. Cohesion is the “stickiness” of like molecules to one another. Water molecules love to stick together! Surface tension is the result of all the water molecules sticking together.
Once the water has reached the edge of the penny, a dome shape begins to form. This is due to the surface tension forming a shape that has the least amount of surface area possible (like bubbles)!
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AGNES POCKELS Magic Milk SUPPLIES
This magic milk science experiment is the perfect Full Fat Milk kitchen science experiment to help understand the Food Coloring science behind ‘surface tension’. Dawn Dish Soap Cotton Swabs STEP 1: Start by pouring your milk into a baking dish or another flat bottom surface. Just enough to cover the bottom. STEP 2: Next you want to fill the top of the milk with drops of color! STEP 3: Now pour a bit of your dish soap into a bowl, touch your cotton swab tip to the dish soap to coat it. Bring it over to your milk dish and gently touch the surface of the milk with the soapy cotton swab! What happens?
WHAT IS HAPPENING?
Milk is made up of minerals, proteins, and fats. Proteins and fats are sus- ceptible to changes. When the dish soap is added to the milk, those mole- cules run around and try to attach to the fat molecules in the milk. You wouldn’t see this without the food coloring! The food coloring looks like fireworks because it’s getting bumped around! The soap heads for the fats creating the cool bursting of color. When there is no more movement, all the fat molecules have been found. Are there any more hiding?
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AGNES POCKELS
Use your decoder ring to reveal a quote by Pockels. ** Turn your coder so the letter A lines up with 11.
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Try to find all the words listed in the list below. Remember, the words can be up, down, diagonal, and backwards! SURFACE SCIENCE TENSION PHYSICS WATER TROUGH DISHES FLUID WOMAN EDUCATION
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Sally Kristen Ride was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978 and became the first American woman in space in 1983.
Sally Ride never intended to be a hero. In fact, she was a shy girl who never raised her hand in class, loved to play tennis and read Scientific American religiously.
Ride was considered the youngest American astronaut to have traveled to space by the Sally Ride’s age of 32. She went through a rigorous other interest training program and served as the was tennis and ground-based capsule communicator for the she was a STS-2 and STS-3, second and third space nationally ranked shuttle flights. She also helped develop the tennis player. space shuttle’s robot arm, “Canadarm”.
In 2001, Ride co-founded Sally Ride Science and became its president and CEO. The company creates entertaining science programs for upper elementary and middle school students as well as publications. The company particularly focuses on girls.
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MAKE A SPACE SHUTTLE! SUPPLIES
STEP 1: Print out the shuttle template. Shuttle template Scissors STEP 2: Cut out the shuttle. Glue Stick STEP 3: Paint white dots with a toothpick to make Red and yellow ‘stars’ on your black paper. tissue paper STEP 4: Glue down your shuttle. White paint Toothpick STEP 5: Cut strips of red and yellow tissue paper. Black paper STEP 6: Glue strips to rocket boosters.
THE SPACE SHUTTLE The Space Shuttle was a spacecraft which was used by NASA. Space Shuttles were used to carry astronauts and cargo into space. Cargo such as satellites, parts of a space station or scientific instruments were taken up into space by the space shuttle. It was a new kind of spacecraft because it could be used again and again.
The shuttle was launched out of Earth's gravity and into space by 3 rocket engines on the back of the orbiter along with help from 2 long white solid rocket boosters. Fuel for the shuttle was stored in the large, usually orange, external fuel tank. Before the shuttle reached orbit, the boosters were released and fell into the Atlantic Ocean where they were towed back to shore for reuse.
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SALLY RIDE
Use your decoder ring to reveal a quote by Sally Ride. ** Turn your coder so the letter A lines up with 21.
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Try to find all the words listed in the list below. Remember, the words can be up, down, diagonal, and backwards! SPACE NASA ASTRONAUT SCIENCE CHALLENGER CANADARM WOMAN SHUTTLE TENNIS PROFESSOR
www.littlebinsforlittlehands.com NANCY GRACE ROMAN
Nancy Grace Roman was an American astronomer. She created the first astronomical program at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
When she was young her mother used to take her outside at night so that she could learn about the constellations, and
During Roman’s she was entranced with astronomy from lifetime, it was not then on. The National Aeronautics and common for women Space Administration (NASA) was estab- to become scientists. lished in 1958, and the next year Roman Roman was almost constantly spearheaded their astronomy program. discouraged during The astronomers generally agreed that her studies and they wanted to be able to look at space beyond. She was from above Earth’s atmosphere. As a given fewer opportunities and result, Roman and the astronomers and much less pay than engineers she managed spent the next men doing the same few years designing a device to get work. However, she was confident in her those images. That device would turn ability and succeeded into the Hubble Space Telescope. in her field. www.littlebinsforlittlehands.com NANCY GRACE ROMAN
Marshmallow Dipper SUPPLIES
Make a fun star constellation using marshmallows Big dipper printable and toothpicks! The Big Dipper! Mini (or star) marshmallows STEP 1: Print the constellation template. Toothpicks STEP 2: Cut out the constellation. Scissors STEP 3: Splatter paint ‘stars’ onto the black paper. Glue Stick STEP 4: Glue the constellation to the paper. White paint STEP 5: Place a marshmallow onto each circle in the Black paper constellation. STEP 6: Connect the stars with toothpicks. Break them apart if you need smaller ones.
THE BIG DIPPER Kids who love to stargaze are probably familiar with the most identifiable star configuration in the night sky -- the Big Dipper. It’s easy to find and instantly recognizable thanks to its long “handle” and large “bowl.” Over the centuries, the Big Dipper has developed a rich mythology.
The Big Dipper is part of a constellation known as Ursa Major, which is Latin for “Great Bear,” and which is the third largest constellation. The seven stars that make up the Big Dipper are the brightest stars in Ursa Major.
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NANCY GRACE ROMAN
Use your decoder ring to reveal a quote by Nancy Grace Roman. ** Turn your coder so the letter A lines up with 21.
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Try to find all the words listed in the list below. Remember, the words can be up, down, diagonal, and backwards! SPACE CONSTELLATIONS EARTH HUBBLE ATMOSPHERE NASA MOTHER WOMAN ADVOCATE ASTRONOMER
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Marie Tharp was an American geologist and oceanographic cartographer who, in partnership with Bruce Heezen, created the first scientific map of the Atlantic Ocean floor.
Marie said she never would have We know that maps can change the way gotten the chance we think about the world. But what about to study geology the way we think about what’s if it hadn’t been underneath? In 1953, a young geologist for Pearl Harbor. Girls were needed named Marie Tharp made a map that to fill the jobs left proved the controversial theory of plate open because the tectonics. But Tharp’s discovery of the guys were off 10,000-mile-long Mid-Atlantic Ridge—a fighting. A year find that showed that the sea floor was after the war started, the spreading—was initially dismissed as “girl geology talk.” I had a blank canvas to fill with department at the extraordinary possibilities ... It was a University of once-in-a-lifetime—a once-in-the-histo- Michigan opened ry-of-the-world—opportunity for anyone, its doors to women. but especially for a woman in the 1940s.”
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PLATE TECTONICS SUPPLIES
Let’s learn about ‘plate tectonics’ and magma with 2 Styrofoam cups this fun and simple experiment! Red food coloring Bowl of water STEP 1: Add red food coloring to a bowl of water. STEP 2: Cut 2 styrofoam cups into 12 pieces. These represent the 12 major plates which are like the skin of the earth. STEP 3: Place the 12 pieces into the bowl of water. STEP 4: Push the plates around and watch the activity of the other plates, of the ‘magma’. Think about what might make a mountain range form, or a volcano erupt, or an earthquake happen. Discuss while you play!
WHAT’S HAPPENING As the plates move, they interact at their boundaries in different ways. At one type of boundary the plates slide alongside each other. At another type, the plates crash into each other. In this case the edge of one plate may slide under another plate and be destroyed. Or the two edges of the plates may rise up and form mountains. At the third type of boundary the plates move apart from each other. When they do, the melted rock beneath the plates rises up. This melted rock, or magma, cools as it rises and forms new crust.
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MARIE THARP
Use your decoder ring to reveal a quote by Tharp. ** Turn your coder so the letter A lines up with 19.
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Try to find all the words listed in the list below. Remember, the words can be up, down, diagonal, and backwards! GEOLOGIST PLATE OCEAN TECTONICS CARTOGRAPHER ROCKS MAP DRIFT WOMAN MAGMA
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Marie Curie was a Polish and French physicist, chemist and feminist. She did research on radioactivity. She was also the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. She was the first woman professor at the University of Paris.
In 1895, she married Pierre Curie. Together they discovered
Curie image - Ron Leishman Digital Toonage two new elements, or the smallest pieces of chemical substances: polonium (which she named after her home country) and radium. Curie soon started using her work to save lives. Her discoveries of radium and polonium In 1921, Marie were important because the elements founded the were radioactive, which meant that Curie Institute in when their atoms broke down, Paris, which they gave off invisible rays that operates as a major cancer could pass through solid research facility matter and conduct electricity. to this day. www.littlebinsforlittlehands.com MARIE CURIE MAKE YOUR OWN X-RAY SUPPLIES STEP 1: Paint the bottom of your hand and arm up Black Construction to the elbow with washable gray paint. paper Gray washable paint STEP 2: Press your hand/arm down onto black White chalk construction paper to make a print. STEP 3: Let print dry. STEP 4: Draw the bones of the hand and arms with white chalk on top of the gray arm print. The effect will look like an x-ray.
THE FIRST MOBILE X-RAY MACHINE!
During World War I in Paris, Marie Curie made a decision. Rather than flee the turmoil, she decided to join in the fight! She decided to redirect her scientific skills toward the war effort; not to make weap- ons, but to save lives.
At the start of the war, X-ray machines were still found only in city hospitals, far from the battlefields where wounded troops were being treated. Curie’s solution was to invent the first “radiological car” – a vehicle containing an X-ray machine and photographic darkroom equipment – which could be driven right up to the battlefield where army surgeons could use X-rays to guide their surgeries.
These radiological cars were nicknamed “Little Curie”.
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MARIE CURIE
Use your decoder ring to reveal a quote by Marie Curie. ** Turn your coder so the letter A lines up with 11.
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Try to find all the words listed in the list below. Remember, the words can be up, down, diagonal, and backwards! POLAND RADIATION MATH MOBILE PHYSICS NOBEL WOMAN RADIUM XRAY CHEMISTRY
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Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
After graduating from high school, Amelia wasn't sure what she wanted to do. She first went to the Ogontz School in Pennsylvania, but dropped out to become a nurse's aide tending wounded soldiers from World War I. Then she studied to become a mechanic, but soon was back in school studying for a career in medicine. Eventually she decided to go into medical When she was research. That is, until she took her first just seven years plane flight. old Amelia made a homemade On December 28, 1920 Amelia and her roller coaster. father visited an air show in California. After crashing Amelia went on her first plane flight that dramatically she day. She later said that "I knew I had to told her sister that it "was just fly" as soon as the plane was just a few like flying". hundred feet off the ground.
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MAKE YOUR OWN GLIDER SUPPLIES Straw STEP 1: Print out paper strip template. Card Stock STEP 2: Use the template to cut out three strips Paper strip template Tape of card stock. Scissors STEP 3: Tape the ends of one strip to make a circle. STEP 4: Tape the other two strips together and then make a larger circle out of them, and tape. STEP 5: Now tape the circles to each end of the straw. STEP 6: Fly your unusual glider!
THE SCIENCE
Can we really call this a plane? It may look weird, but you will discover it flies surprisingly well. The two sizes of hoops help to keep the straw balanced as it flies. The big hoop creates “drag” (or air resistance) which helps keep the straw level while the smaller hoop in at the front keeps your super hooper from turning off course.
Some have asked why the plane does not turn over since the hoops are heavier than the straw. Since objects of different weight generally fall at the same speed, the hoop will keep its “upright” position.
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AMELIA EARHART
Use your decoder ring to reveal a quote by Amelia Earhart. ** Turn your coder so the letter A lines up with 3.
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Try to find all the words listed in the list below. Remember, the words can be up, down, diagonal, and backwards! AIRPLANE OCEAN FLY SOLO PILOT CANARY WOMAN FRIENDSHIP ATLANTIC FIRST
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Jane Goodall is a British primatologist and anthropologist. Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her over 55-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees.
Goodall is best known for her study of chim- panzee social and family life. She began Goodall image - Ron Leishman Digital Toonage studying the Kasakela chimpanzee community in Tanzania in 1960.
Instead of numbering the chimpanzees she observed, she gave them names such as Fifi and David Greybeard, and observed them to have unique and individual personalities, an unconventional idea at the time. She found that, “It isn’t only human beings who have personality, who are capable of rational As a child, as an thought [and] emotions like joy and sorrow”. alternative to a teddy She also observed behaviors such as hugs, bear her father gave kisses, pats on the back, and even tickling, Goodall a stuffed what we consider 'human' actions. chimpanzee named Jubilee, and she has Goodall established the Jane Goodall Institute said her fondness for (JGI), which supports the Gombe research, this figure started her and she is a global leader in the effort to early love of animals. protect chimpanzees and their habitats. www.littlebinsforlittlehands.com JANE GOODALL CHIMPANZEE PUPPET PROJECT
SUPPLIES Printable STEP 1: Print our chimpanzee face. Markers or crayons STEP 2: Color the face. Paper bag STEP 3: Cut out face. Scissors STEP 4: Glue to top of folded paper bag. Glue stick
JANE GOODALL
Use your decoder ring to reveal a quote by Jane Goodall. ** Turn your coder so the letter A lines up with 21.
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Try to find all the words listed in the list below. Remember, the words can be up, down, diagonal, and backwards! CHIMPANZEE ENVIRONMENT NOTEBOOK CLIMATE BINOCULARS DEFORESTATION PROTECT GOMBE EXTINCTION HABITAT
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American computer scientist Margaret Hamilton was one of the first computer software programmers; she created the term software engineer to describe her work.
Margaret Hamilton worked as a programmer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1959. Using computers in the meteorology On November 22, department, she developed a program 2016, she was that predicted the weather. In another awarded the project, called SAGE, she wrote software Presidential Medal of that searched for enemy aircraft. Freedom by U.S. Hamilton was put in charge of the President Barack onboard flight software for Apollo space Obama for her work mission. This software made sure the leading the lunar module (the spacecraft that landed development of on the Moon) and the command module on-board flight (the craft that carried the astronauts to software for NASA's and from Earth) worked successfully. Apollo Moon missions. www.littlebinsforlittlehands.com MARGARET HAMILTON
Code a Keychain SUPPLIES
Use computer language, ‘binary code’ to create Binary printable a beaded keychain using the word ‘KEYS’. Red and blue beads (or any two colors) STEP 1: Print the binary code info sheet. String STEP 2: Place the beads onto the sheet in the pattern Scissors shown on the paper. Key ring STEP 3: String the beads for each letter onto a string. Make the strings about 8-10 inches long. STEP 4: Wrap the string around the key ring and then thread it back through the beads. STEP 5: Repeat for each letter so you have 4 sets of beads around the ring. STEP 6: Gather all of the string ends together and tie into one big knot. WHAT IS BINARY CODE? Binary code is how computers talk and represent information. Letters, numbers, and pictures…. basically everything you see on the computer is made up of different combinations of 0’s and 1’s.
Imagine trying to use words to describe every scene in a film, every note in a song, or every street in your town. Now imagine trying to do it using only the numbers 1 and 0. Every time you use the Internet to watch a movie, listen to music, or check directions, that’s exactly what your device is doing, using the language of binary code.
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RED BEAD BLUE BEAD
Place the appropriate bead in each circle to spell ‘keys’.
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MARGARET HAMILTON
Use your decoder ring to reveal a quote by Margaret Hamilton. ** Turn your coder so the letter A lines up with 1.
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Try to find all the words listed in the list below. Remember, the words can be up, down, diagonal, and backwards! APOLLO TECHNOLOGY MEDAL SOFTWARE BINARY PROGRAMMER CODING ENGINEER METEOROLOGY NASA
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Mae Jemison is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first black woman to travel into space aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
In college, Mae studied the physical and social sciences, and learned to speak Russian and the African language Swahili. She earned a degree in chemical engineering and African studies. After college, she studied medicine for four years, and became a medical doctor.
In 1987, Mae was accepted into NASA's Jemison has had astronaut program. She trained in Texas, many careers. learning about space exploration. She She has been a worked for NASA, and waited for a shuttle physician, assignment. engineer, business woman, When the space shuttle Endeavour professor and launched into orbit in 1992, Mae became was even an the first African-American woman to orbit actress on Star the earth. Trek!
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YOU AS AN ASTRONAUT SUPPLIES Helmet printable STEP 1: Print out helmet artwork. Color with markers. Scissors STEP 2: Cut out the center of the helmet. Markers Glue stick STEP 3: Cut out the center of the paper plate. Paper plate STEP 4: Using the glue stick, attach the helmet to the Photo of yourself front of the paper plate. STEP 5: Print out a photo of yourself and cut to fit inside the plate. STEP 6: Glue your photo to the bottom of the plate.
THE SCIENCE OF SPACE HELMETS
A spacesuit is more than clothes astronauts wear in space. The suit is really a small spacecraft. It protects the astronaut from the dangers of being outside in space and protects them from getting too hot or too cold.
The helmet is a large plastic, pressurized bubble that has a neck ring and a ventilation distribution pad. It also has a purge valve, which is used with a secondary oxygen pack. In the helmet, there is a straw to a drink bag in case the astronaut gets thirsty, a visor which shields rays from the bright sun, and a camera which records extra vehicular activities. It also has four small "head lamps" which shine extra light where needed.
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MAE JEMISON
Use your decoder ring to reveal a quote by Mae Jemison. ** Turn your coder so the letter A lines up with 6.
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Try to find all the words listed in the list below. Remember, the words can be up, down, diagonal, and backwards! SHUTTLE JEMISON WOMAN ASTRONAUT FIRST PHYSICIAN ENGINEER PROFESSOR NASA SPACE
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