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The Mini Page — 2008 Activities
Meet Astronaut Barbara Morgan
Issue 2
Jan. 12-18
This week's standards:
- Students understand the important accomplishments of individuals and groups. (Social Studies: The Individual)
- Students understand the people, events, problems and ideas that were significant in creating the history of their country. (Social Studies:
History)
- Students understand the role of science and technology. (Science)
Activities:
1. Use newspaper words and pictures to create a poster that shows the different subjects Barbara Morgan taught before she became an astronaut.
2. Interview several friends or family members. Ask them to name the problems people might have working inside a space shuttle. Then see if you can answer those questions using information from today's Mini Page.
3. Write the letters M-O-R-G-A-N down the side of a piece of paper. Then cut out a newspaper word that describes astronaut Morgan and begins with the letters of her name. For example, you might find the words "mighty" or "marvelous" that you could paste next to the "M."
4. Who would you select to serve as your crew on the space shuttle?
Identify
five people from the newspaper you would take with you on a shuttle mission. You may select real people from news stories or characters from a comic strip. Write a sentence explaining each choice.
5. Use resource books and the Internet to learn more about astronaut training. Use these questions to guide your research: How are people selected to become astronauts? What physical abilities must astronauts have? What knowledge must they have?
How often do they train? How
do they train for their missions? Write a paragraph discussing your research.
Standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
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