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Moon Rocks: Mysteries of the Moon

Moon Rocks: Mysteries of the Moon. Susan Kohler Susan.m.kohler@nasa.gov Aerospace Education Specialist Aeronautics Education Services Project NASA Glenn Research Center. MOON DANCE http://discovery.nasa.gov/musical/index.cfml. Goddard Space Flight Center. Ames Research Center.

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Moon Rocks: Mysteries of the Moon

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  1. Moon Rocks: Mysteries of the Moon Susan Kohler Susan.m.kohler@nasa.gov Aerospace Education Specialist Aeronautics Education Services Project NASA Glenn Research Center

  2. MOON DANCEhttp://discovery.nasa.gov/musical/index.cfml

  3. Goddard Space Flight Center Ames Research Center Glenn Research Center Headquarters Langley Research Center Dryden Flight Research Center Jet Propulsion Laboratory Marshall Space Flight Center Stennis Space Center Kennedy Space Center Johnson Space Center NASA Centers

  4. Group Roles Project Manager • Checks the team’s work. • Asks the instructor questions. • Leads team discussions. • Is in charge of safety. Engineer • Is in charge of getting the design completed. • Makes the supply list. • Approves the design after construction. Logistics • Collects the supplies and equipment. • Returns supplies and equipment. • Makes sure to use only what is needed. Scientist • Records all information. • Makes sure written reports are completed. • Fills out forms of any kind for the team. • Makes team reports to the rest of the group.

  5. http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/educ/play_doh_planets.cfm Solar System Exploration SSE Home  >  Education  >  Build Your Own Solar System  >  Classroom  >  Worlds in Comparison: Play-Doh Planets Play-doh Scales

  6. Activity procedures | EARTH – MOON • Have students predict and make models of the size and distance of the MOON in relation to the EARTH. • Divide the Play-doh into 50 equal sized balls (as equal as possible). Choose an average sized ball and set it aside. Squash the other 49 back together. You now have the EARTH and MOON. • Now comes the relative distance. The distance between the EARTH and the MOON should be equal to 30 EARTH diameters. • Have students compare their original model with the scale model they just created. Get them to think about why they thought that before. (NOTE: the misconception of the relative size and distance between the EARTH and the MOON is due to perspective which comes from the photographs we have all seen of both. In order to get both the EARTH and the MOON in the same photo, one has to take a photo of them one in front of the other and slightly off to one side. Let’s Divide

  7. http://www.google.com/moon/ • With Moon in Google Earth, you can: • Take tours of landing sites, narrated by Apollo astronauts • View 3D models of landed spacecraft • Zoom into 360-degree photos to see astronauts' footprints • Watch rare TV footage of the Apollo missions Google Moon

  8. These six missions of the Apollo Program, which lasted from 1963 to 1972, were the first and last times that Mankind has set foot on another world • Apollo 14 • http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/apollo40 Google Moon http://www.google.com/moon

  9. Exploring the Moon Teachers Guide http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/Exploring.the.Moon.html The activities in this guide promote problem solving, communication skills and teamwork. Earth and space science subjects include lunar geology and regolith, distance to the moon, Apollo landing sites and life support systems. Focused on Grades 4-12.

  10. eClips: Rock Cycle http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/nasaeclips/index.html http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/nasaeclips/search.html?terms=rock%20cycle Find out how rocks brought to Earth by the Apollo astronauts have helped NASA learn more about the rock cycle. Compare igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks found on Earth to three types of rocks found on the moon.

  11. Materials • Rock Sample • Play-doh • Beads • Rock ABC Fact Sheet • Data sheet • Challenge: Determine the Classification of the rock sample your group has discovered. Rock ABC’s Activity http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/180557main_ETM.Rock.Fact.Sheet.pdf

  12. Active Accretion “Birth ,Death, Rebirth” The universe is a dynamic place in which stars and planets are continually changing, dying, and being formed from the debris of earlier generations. A Star’s life cycle, including birth and death, depends on its mass. High mass stars die quickly (in millions of years) while low mass stars live a very long time (billions of years). When stars die, they recycle elements that can become other stars, sometimes planets and maybe life.

  13. 1.What happened to the student dust particles at the beginning of the game? • 2. How did the student chondrules interact with the student dust particles? Was the movement of the two students the same or different? • 3. What happened when there were chondrites? Was the movement of the two students after the interaction the same or different? Was the movement of student dust particles the same as that of the student chondrules? • 4. What did you notice about the dust particles at the end of the activity? • 5. How does this simulation relate to the accretion of asteroids in the early solar system? • a. In what ways do you think it is similar? • b. In what ways do you think it is different? • 6. What would happen if another large group of (maybe 100) students, which might represent a large planet like Jupiter, entered the circular path where you have been running? Discussion http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/docs/ActiveAccretion.pdf

  14. Differentiation • 2 cups • Water • Materials • Marshmallows • Pasta • Raisins • Nuts • Mini M and M’s • Goldfish Collect

  15. Predict what will happen to the materials when they are placed in water • Report: • What you thought would happen. • Your procedure. • What happened. • Convince me you need more resources and /or time. Design The Experiment

  16. Differentiation: Discussion • When planets begin to melt, the materials in them begin to separate from one another.The heaviest materials, such as metallic iron, sink to form cores. Low density magmasrise forming crusts. This process is called differentiation. • http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/180570main_ETM.Differentiation.pdf

  17. To learn about the stratigraphy of lava flows produced by multiple eruptions on the moon topography Discussion

  18. Make a map of an unknown volcano and show the sequence of flows. Interpret the map data and infer the subsurface extent of the flows Predict where excavations will give the most information Simulate both natural and human excavations Write a short geologic history of the volcano Lava Layering . http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/docs/Map_Volcano.pdf

  19. Lava Layering • 4 colors of play-doh • Cardboard base • ( 10cmX10cm) • Colored pencils • 2 Small drink cups • Baking soda • Vinegar http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/180574main_ETM.Lava.Layering.pdf Materials

  20. Space Musical Meteor WRONG BLUES Right http://discovery.nasa.gov/musical/meteor.cfml

  21. http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/meteorite/experiment.asp • How do scientists identify meteorites? • We will use the properties of meteorites to help distinguish meteorites from “meteor-wrongs” — samples from the Earth that may have some properties like meteorites. • We will use several tests and compile the results into a table Experiment of Meteor right and Meteor Wrongs

  22. Impact Craters How to Make a Crater • Meteoroids • http://discovery.nasa.gov/musical/meteor.html • http://lcross.arc.nasa.gov/docs/MM_Suppl_Guide_v1.pdf • What kind of predictions will you make? • How will you measure the impact? • How does this relate to lunar rocks? • http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/education/videos/playVideo.cfm?videoID=14 Meteorite Impact

  23. The topic for this collection is Lunar Exploration . It starts with NASA's launch in 2009 of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. This satellite surveyed the Moon for water ice, and measured the Moon's radiation environment in preparation for manned landings between 2017 and 2025. For more information, visit the LRO website at http://lunar.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.html http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/377727main_Lunar_Math.pdf Lunar Math

  24. http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/181087main_ETM.Lunar.Disk.pdf Lunar Rock Sample

  25. Lunar Rock Security Complete both forms

  26. What Kind of World Do You Want? http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=100242111 Although STS-135 was the final space shuttle mission, the International Space Station will continue an uninterrupted human presence in space. This music video featuring the space station and its crews is set to the song "World" by recording artists Five for Fighting.

  27. http://aesp.psu.edususan.m.kohler@nasa.gov http://neon.psu.edu/ The purpose of NEONis to help K-12 teachers and STEM professionals: Find each other based on areas of expertise, interests, and needs Develop effective collaborations Learn from and support each other Find teaching, learning, and professional development resources. Educator Resource Repository: http://aespresources.psu.edu

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