Rockets! Trunk Teacher’s Guide & NASA Education Resources ROCKETS! TRUNK Teacher’s Information and Guide Wyoming NASA Space Grant Consortium Mailing Address: Shipping Address: Dept. 3905 Dept. 3905 1000 E University Ave. 16th and Gibbon Laramie, WY 82071 Laramie, WY 82071 307-766-2862 http://wyomingspacegrant.uwyo.edu
[email protected] Wyoming NASA Space Grant Consortium Rockets! Trunk Teacher’s Information and Guide Wyoming NASA Space Grant Consortium Mailing Address: Shipping Address: Dept. 3905 Dept. 3905 1000 E University Ave. 16th and Gibbon Laramie, WY 82071 Laramie, WY 82071 307-766-2862 http://wyomingspacegrant.uwyo.edu
[email protected] Credits The activities in this kit are taken from the Teach Engineering website at www.teachengineering.org and the NASA Rocket Educator Guide (2008) found on the NASA Educator website at www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/Rockets.html. TeachEngineering.org is a collaborative project between faculty, students and teachers associated with five universities and the American Society for Engineering Education, with NSF National Science Digital Library funding. Introduction This kit contains activities, learning goals, educational standards, and assessments designed to teach students, through the use of inquiry, how rockets function by understanding Newton’s Laws. The majority of the activities in this kit are aimed at students in 3-5th grades (however they can be adapted for use with other grade levels). The 2nd orange tab contains activities for higher grade levels, 6 through 8. The last tab contains activities from the Rocket Educator Guide produced by NASA. Curriculum taken from the Teach Engineering website is broken down into curricular units (broad overview of topic), lesson plans within that particular unit, and lesson activities associated with each lesson plan.