Hands-on Activities

The LIVE FROM THE STRATOSPHERE (airborne and infrared astronomy) and LIVE FROM THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE Guides include all student worksheet bound into the guide itself. The LIVE FROM MARS and LIVE FROM THE SUN Guides come with the following copy masters of handouts (background information) and student worksheets, in all providing more than 79 sides of additional resources to provide all a teacher needs to get started:

LIVE FROM MARS (34 sides)

Teacher handouts and images:
  Activity 5.1   Mars Temperatures (color)
  Activity 1.2   Contour maps of Coprates region of Vallis Marineris
  Activity 1.2   Contour maps of Olympus Mons
  Activity 1.3   Viking 1 image of craters and surface features (4 separate 8x11 images)
  Activity 2.2   Cross section of Hawaiian island
  Activity 2.2   Cross section of Olympus Mons
  Activity 3.2   Barringer crater (image)
  Activity 3.2   Craters on lunar surface
  Activity 3.2   Cratered highlands on Mars
  Activity 5.2   Images A and B: craters and surface features

  Activity A.3     "Earth/Mars comparisons" student worksheet (2 sides)
  Activity A.3     "Earth/Mars comparisons" teacher answer key (2 sides)
  Activity 1.2     MOLA box top grid copy master
  Activity 1.1.A  "Rocket Science 101" worksheet (2 sides)
  Activity 1.1.B  "Rockets and Payloads" worksheet (2 sides)
  Activity 1.3     "Investigations with Stream Tables" student worksheet (2 sides)
  Activity 2.1     Tracking Mars in the night sky (4 sides)
  Activity 3.2     "Creating Crater"s (3 sides)
  Activity 5.2     Face on Mars / "Sun, Shadows..."
  Activity B.3     "Options for Exploring Mars" article

LIVE FROM THE SUN (45 sides)

Correlation of LIVE FROM THE SUN Activities with the National Science Education Standards (4 sides)
  Activity A.3     LIVE FROM THE SUN Pre-/Post-test (2 sides)
  Activity A.3     LIVE FROM THE SUN Pre-/Post-test Teacher Answer Key (3 sides)
  Activity A.4     Porfolio Assessment teacher checklist and scoring rubric (2 sides)
  Activity 1.3.1  "Filter Fun" student worksheet (2 sides)
  Activity 1.3.1  'Simplified Sun Features" student worksheet (2 sides)
  Activity 1.3.1  'Simplified Sun Features' teacher answer key
  Activity 1.4     "Life Cycle of the Stars" / Star Card student worksheet masters (8 sides)
  Activity 2.4     Close up of Sun's surface showing granulations (for teacher overhead)
  Activity 3.1     "Same and Different Challenge: Sun, Earth and Jupiter" student worksheet
  Activity 3.3     "Radiation Risk" student instruction sheet
  Activity 3.3     'Radiation Risk" game card masters (8 sides)

  Activity 4.1.2  "Time, Technology and Telescopes" URL sheet
  Activity 4.1.2  Sample timeline data (2 sides, 11 x 17)
  Activity 4.2     "Solar Myths and Sunny Folk Tales" examples (2 sides)
  Activity 4.3.1  "How to Build a Working Sundial" student worksheet (2 sides)
  Activity 4.3.2  "Making 'Sun Dogs'" student worksheet (2 sides)
  Activity 4.3.3  "Solar Monuments" student instruction sheet (2 sides)

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