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Rocket Languages: School and Subjects in Spanish

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Professional Doc
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Audio Assisted Reading

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A resource for teachers to understand how to effectively use audio books in their reading programs. Includes links to teaching materials.
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Website
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Summer Reading

For Students 3rd - 8th
Here are some great ideas for summer learning and reading.
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Professional Doc
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: 25 Activities for Reading/writing Fun

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Discover these exciting 25 activities that develop reading and writing skills while having fun. The activities are split for two different age groups.
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Professional Doc
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Building World Knowledge: Informational Text

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
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Article
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: The Foundations for Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
What are the foundations for reading? Come and explore this informative article to discover the answer to this question.
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Primary
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Accommodating Students With Dyslexia [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Article
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: The Alphabetic Principle

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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...
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Article
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: How to Read Nonfiction Text

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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...
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Article
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: How to Teach Writing in Kindergarten

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
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Article
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Natural Disasters Around the World: Understanding and Empathy

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Article
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Goals for First Grade: Early Reading and Writing

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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...
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Other

National Association of Rocketry

For Students 9th - 10th
A site dedicated to model rocketry. Information on clubs, rockets, magazines, and other subjects of interest to model rocketry enthusiasts.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Into Space!

For Teachers 7th - 9th
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...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Curious George Stem: Blast Off! Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In the STEM lesson plan, learners will watch rocket demonstrations from the teacher Then students will create their own rockets.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Launch It (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
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...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Flying With Style

For Teachers 10th - 12th
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.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Houston, We Have a Problem!

For Teachers 10th - 12th
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...
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NASA

Nasa: White Sands Test Facility

For Students 9th - 10th
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,...
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eBook
Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Technology: The Girl Who Learned to Fly

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
In this book, Sylvia Acevedo tells how she became a rocket scientist. Includes audio narration in English, Spanish, and Turkish with text in English.
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PBS

Zoom: Kitchen Chemistry

For Students 3rd - 8th
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...
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Physics Central

Physics Central: Physics by the Fire: Match Stick Rocket

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Curated OER

Library of Congress: read.gov: The Rocket Book

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Book cover of The Rocket Book by Peter Newell.
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TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Blast Off

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.

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