Space Cadet Academy Resource List

Homeschoolers at the Library

October 2017

Space Cadet Academy Resource List

What We Did This Month

·  We started with an icebreaker game, Space Cards Match-Up

(http://www.prekinders.com/space-picture-word-cards/). Students tried to find their space card match.

·  We watched a story from space! The Incredible Intergalactic Journey Home can be found at the Story Time From Space website: http://storytimefromspace.com/stories/the-incredible-intergalactic-journey-home/.

·  We also read Astronaut Handbook by Meghan McCarthy to help us prepare to become and astronaut! This book gives a great overview of life as an astronaut.

·  A Gravity and Weight on Other Planets activity

(https://www.teachervision.com/planets/gravity-weight-other-planets) helped us see how gravity would affect our weight if we weren’t on Earth.

·  Star Wheels found at https://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/do_science_now/science_apps_and_activities/star_wheels helped us learn about stars and constellations in the universe.

·  For our science experiment, we made Alka-Seltzer Rockets (https://www.imaginationstationtoledo.org/educator/activities/rockets) out of film canisters, Alka-Seltzer tablets, and water!

·  Finally, everyone made a squeeze rocket out of a plastic bottle and straws to take home with them.

Take Home

·  This resource list

·  A Cool Idea for Learning About Constellations

http://www.parents.com/fun/games/educational/star-power-constellation-viewer/

Additional resources to use at home:

·  More stories read from space can be found at http://storytimefromspace.com/

·  NASA for Students website http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/index.html

·  A downloadable free open source planetarium for PC can be found at http://www.stellarium.org/

·  Other great rocket ideas can be found at https://www.mumsmakelists.com/how-to-make-rockets-fly/

·  How to make Easter egg rockets can be found here: http://thestemlaboratory.com/easter-egg-rockets/

·  If you want to try a big rocket: http://lemonlimeadventures.com/diy-rocket-building-station-kids/ or http://www.science-sparks.com/2012/03/12/making-a-bottle-rocket/

·  Straw Rocket Engineering Challenge

https://thehomeschoolscientist.com/straw-rocket-engineering-challenge/

·  Easy Straw Rockets https://buggyandbuddy.com/straw-rockets-with-free-rocket-template/

·  Rockets Educator Guide https://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/Rockets.html

·  NASA Simple Rocket Science https://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/Simple_Rocket_Science.html

·  STEM Lessons from Space https://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/stem-on-station/technology

·  Expeditionary Skills for Life

https://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/stem-on-station/expeditionary-skills-for-life.html

If you are looking for books about

·  Space – j520

·  Space Travel – j629.4

·  Astronauts – j629.45