Education Resources at The ROVer Ranch
The ROVer Ranch
presents
Education Resources
Here's some links to related education resources:
ROBOTS
- Robotics Instructional
Materials at SpaceLink
- Robot lessons
- Robotics Education Project
- Learn about them, talk about them, build them
- Space Science Robotics at SpaceLink
- More robot info from NASA
SPACEFLIGHT
- International Space Station Reference
- The user's manual
-
Live and Work Aboard the Space Shuttle
- You too can crew...
-
Human Spaceflight - The ISS
- Living 220 miles up!
- ISS Challenge
- Can you dock the Shuttle at the ISS?
MARS
- Mars
Instructional Materials at SpaceLink
- Life? Water? Is it Red?
-
Mars Exploration Activity Page
- Neat stuff like making topo maps and ionized balloons...
- Center for Mars
Exploration
- Landing site maps
-
Welcome to Mars
- Planetary profile
-
Passport to Knowledge - Live from Mars
- An online field trip to Mars - tons of resources
- Mars Exploration - Teachers Section
- Includes the Mars Activities Book (pdf/html), curriculum supplements and
other resources
- Mars Millennium Project
- A multi-disciplinary project to picture the future
-
Mars Exploration Teacher Resources
- Activities, supplements and more!!
IDEAS & TOOLS
- Space
Science Education Resource Directory
- SpaceEd sorted by grade and subject
- The Physics Zone
- Didja know mass and inertia are the same thing?
- Metric Converter
- Measure twice, cut once
- NASA Space Mathematics from the Space Educators' Handbook.
- Chapters include Algebra, Geometry, Probability and Statistics, Exponential and Logarithmic Functions, Trigonometry, Matrix Algebra, Conic Sections, and Calculus
- Flight Paths of Orbiting Satellites
- An Ask Eric Lesson Plan
- Basics of Space Flight Learners' Workbook
- A NASA online publication that covers space environment, space flight projects, and space flight operations
- Graphs
- A more complex treatment of graphs
