Other
Rocket Languages: School and Subjects in Spanish
Students will learn how to talk about school subjects in Spanish. After listening to words or sentences in Spanish, students will record themselves respeating the same words.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Audio Assisted Reading
A resource for teachers to understand how to effectively use audio books in their reading programs. Includes links to teaching materials.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Summer Reading
Here are some great ideas for summer learning and reading.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: 25 Activities for Reading/writing Fun
Discover these exciting 25 activities that develop reading and writing skills while having fun. The activities are split for two different age groups.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Building World Knowledge: Informational Text
Before, during, and after-reading ideas for introducing students to informational texts in the early-elementary grades in order to boost reading achievement through the upper-elementary grades.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: The Foundations for Reading
What are the foundations for reading? Come and explore this informative article to discover the answer to this question.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Accommodating Students With Dyslexia [Pdf]
This five page PDF resource guide provides great information on accommodating students who have dyslexia in all classroom settings. Accommodations on materials, instruction, and student performance are included.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: The Alphabetic Principle
Children's knowledge of letter names and shapes is a strong predictor of their success in learning to read. Knowing letter names is strongly related to children's ability to remember the forms of written words and their ability to treat...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: How to Read Nonfiction Text
Kids love to read about real people, places, and events. Nonfiction books present real information in engaging and interesting ways. However, most kids read a lot more fiction than nonfiction, so spend some extra time helping your reader...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: How to Teach Writing in Kindergarten
Literacy expert Timothy Shanahan shares best practices for teaching reading and writing. In this article, he recommends some reasonable approaches, activities, and routines to help facilitate and teach writing in Kindergarten.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Natural Disasters Around the World: Understanding and Empathy
Come and learn how to begin to help parents and educators address the aftermath of a natural disaster with children through reading and books. This site features a list of titles to begin this journey of healing.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Goals for First Grade: Early Reading and Writing
Children go through certain phases of reading development from preschool through third grade- from exploration of books to independent reading. Find out what children at the first-grade phase should be able to do, and what teachers and...
Other
National Association of Rocketry
A site dedicated to model rocketry. Information on clubs, rockets, magazines, and other subjects of interest to model rocketry enthusiasts.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Into Space!
While building and testing model rockets fueled by antacid tablets, students are introduced to the basic physics concepts on how rockets work. Students revise and improve their initial designs. Note: This activity is similar to the...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Curious George Stem: Blast Off! Lesson Plan
In the STEM lesson plan, learners will watch rocket demonstrations from the teacher Then students will create their own rockets.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Launch It (Pdf) [Pdf]
Hands-on challenge to design an air-powered rocket to take you to the moon that can hit a distant target. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to design, build, test, evaluate, and redesign it if necessary. Activity focuses...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Flying With Style
As students begin to understand the physics behind thrust, drag, and gravity and how these relate these to Newton's three laws of motion, groups assemble and launch the rockets that they designed in the associated lesson.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Houston, We Have a Problem!
Students apply their mathematics and team building skills to explore the concept of rocketry.Throughout the design process, teamwork is emphasized since the most successful launches occur when groups work effectively to generate creative...
NASA
Nasa: White Sands Test Facility
The White Sands Research Facility is a main research and testing area for the Department of Defense, NASA, and commercial industry. White Sands works with rocket propulsion, properties of materials, hazards assessment, oxygen systems,...
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Technology: The Girl Who Learned to Fly
In this book, Sylvia Acevedo tells how she became a rocket scientist. Includes audio narration in English, Spanish, and Turkish with text in English.
PBS
Zoom: Kitchen Chemistry
Did you know that chemistry can be found in your kitchen? Enter this amazing virtual world where your first stop is to the kitchen. Locate the clues and move on to the Lab Journal where you can test each item in two experiments: Cabbage...
Physics Central
Physics Central: Physics by the Fire: Match Stick Rocket
Match stick rockets makes a great demonstrations to show students Newton's third law. By covering a match with tin foil, students can see the reaction thrust as the molecules escaping the matchstick are propelled into the air. Lesson...
Curated OER
Library of Congress: read.gov: The Rocket Book
Book cover of The Rocket Book by Peter Newell.
TryEngineering
Try Engineering: Blast Off
Hands on activity where students focus on aerospace engineering to investigate space flight from the viewpoint of an engineer. They design, build, and launch their rocket, then share their experiences with the class.
Other popular searches
- Bottle Rockets
- Balloon Rockets
- Model Rockets
- Air Transportation Rockets
- Water Bottle Rockets
- Water Rockets
- Rockets Science Fair Project
- Alka Seltzer and Rockets
- Making Rockets
- Rockets and Cars
- Space Rockets
- Building Rockets