Unit 5B, The Solar System and Beyond Unit Project: Designing a Space Station Use what you are learning about space to turn your classroom into a space-station simulator. Project Link 1 (Chapter 1, p. B19) Build a navigation pod in a corner of your classroom. On large sheets of paper, draw windows for your space station. Through the pod's window, show constellations. Use your telescopic camera to take pictures of certain stars. Internet Links Space Station Public Broadcasting Service: NOVA Online/Terror in Space/Take a Tour of Mir http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/mir/tour.html The Boeing Company: International Space Station Home http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/spacestation/index.html High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center StarChild: Space Station Mir http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/spacestation/index.html Naves espaciales http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Mspacrft.htm Constellations Public Broadcasting Service: NOVA Online/Hunt for Alien Worlds/Constellations http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worlds/constellations.html University of Illinois: Stars and Constellations http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/sow.html Descubre las constelaciones http://personal3.iddeo.es/santimizar/constela.html Student Resources Space-Station Window Frame Ventana para estación espacial Project Link 2 (Chapter 2, p. B33) Turn another area of the classroom into a docking port for your simulated space station. Decorate your docking port with travel posters showing different planets and moons. Then plan flights to these places Internet Links Docking Ports National Aeronautics and Space Administration Spacelink — International Space Station Docking http://spacelink.nasa.gov/Instructional.Materials/NASA.Educational.Products/International.Space.Station.Docking/ National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Human Space Flight — The Shuttle http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/reference/faq/mir.html Travel Posters National Air and Space Museum: Exploring The Planets — Gallery Entrance http://www.nasm.si.edu/etp/ National Air and Space Museum: Exploring the Planets Activities http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/ceps/etp/etpact.htm Student Resources Planet/Moon Trip Planner Planificador para el viaje a una luna o un planeta Project Link 3 (Chapter 3, p. B69) Design and build a space telescope for your space station. Draw the space telescope as you would see it through one of the space-station windows. Then draw some of the stars, galaxies, and other objects that you might observe with the space telescope. Internet Links Space Telescope Space Telescope Science Institute Amazing Space: Hubble Academy http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/hdf-top-level.html Space Telescope Science Institute Amazing Space: From Galileo to Hubble http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/galileo/galileo-to-hst1.html El cielo sobre nosotros http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Msky.htm Views of the Night Sky Space Telescope Science Institute Hubble Space Telescope: Pictures http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pictures.html National Aeronautics and Space Administration Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Solar System Simulator http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/ El universo y sus maravillas http://www.geocities.com/jf_ravelo/ Student Resources Space-Station Window Frame Space-Station Computer Screen Ventana para estación espacial Consola de computadora para la estación espacial Project Link 4 (Chapter 4, p. B83) Create life-support areas for your space station and decide what things you would need to stock them. List all the personal gear you might need for a space flight. Plan a space meal. Consider only those foods that astronauts can store and eat in zero gravity. Internet Links Life-Support Areas The Boeing Company: Environmental Control and Life Support System http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/spacestation/systems/eclss.html Space Food National Aeronautics and Space Administration Marshall Space Flight Center Liftoff: Food for Space Flight http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/astronauts/food.html Student Resources Space-Station Life-Support Planner Space-Station Meal Planner Space-Station Personal Gear Planner Space-Station Design Planner Space-Station Roles/Jobs Planner Planificador del área de almacenamiento para preservar la vida Planificador de comidas en la estación espacial Planificador de equipo personal Planificador de la estación espacial Planificador de tareas