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Settlement Exploration: Then and Now
NASA has crafted an imaginative and memorable series of lessons, "NASA and Jamestown Education Module." This lesson is one of the five components. In it, middle schoolers connect history and science by comparing the settlement of...
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Observing and Sketching the Lunar Surface
Students explore space science by conducting an illustration activity. For this lunar lesson, students discuss what the moon is and the role it plays for our environment on Earth. Students view images of the moon and utilize chalk to...
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LRO and the Apollo-11 Landing Site
For this Apollo-11 landing site worksheet, learners read about the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) that will collect images at a higher resolution than ever before. Students study a grid showing the lunar landing site from Apollo...
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A High-Resolution Satellite Photo
In this high resolution satellite photograph worksheet, students observe a photograph taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter of the Tennessee Court House. Students use the photograph to solve 4 problems about the scale of the image,...
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Craters on the Moon
For this moon craters worksheet, students use a high resolution image of the lunar surface and calculate the image scale in meters per millimeter. They use the image scale to find the largest crater in the image, the smallest crater, the...
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LCROSS 'Sees" Water on the Moon!
In this moon worksheet, students calculate information about the crater that was created by a massive impact. This worksheet has 3 problems to solve.
Fourmilab Switzerland
John Walker: Named Lunar Formations
This atlas of the Lunar surface features lists all named features. Click on a name and see an image of that item, or at least an image of the Moon centered on that item.
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The Full Moon Atlas
Find any location on the moon, including the dark side through this interactive full moon atlas. Click on any segment and mouse over the images to find the names of key geographic features. You can even go to the homepage to translate...
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Apollo Qtvr Panoramas
This is an impressive interactive virtual reality panoramic exhibit of the Apollo missions when they were on the moon.
US Navy
Naval Research Laboratory: Clementine Lunar Mission
This resource provides information about the Clementine Lunar Mission