 Microgravity
Level: Grades 5-12
Included:
-
Video – The “Gee” in Microgravity (60:00 min.)
for Teachers & Students
- This video shows how scientists
devise earth-based experiments to explore how biological,
chemical, and physical phenomena
act differently without the constraint of gravity. Shows how NASA
research is conducted inside airplanes, rockets, drop
tubes, and how experiments will take place in the future
Space
Station.
- Education Packet to accompany The “Gee” in
microgravity, with presenter profiles, experiments, and background
information.
- Three NASA publications: Microgravity
A Teacher’s Guide
with Activities for Secondary Level; The
Mathematics of Microgravity; & Microgravity:
A teacher’s Guide with Activities in Science,
Mathematics & Technology.
- NASA Poster: “Microgravity
Research Program”
- Press Kit for the 1997 Space
Shuttle Mission: Microgravity Science Laboratory.
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