Support for long-term classroom planning and professional development. Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. Classroom activities are grouped according to the subjects of aeronautics, astronomy, communication and space science, botany, and rocketry. Information sheets are divided into colorable drawings of spacecraft for elementary students, and more complicated diagrams and information on NASA flight projects for older students. Activity instructions include information under the headings of subject, topic, description, contributor, materials, procedure, and discussion.
Aeronautic activities cover the topics of gliding flight, boomerangs, and lift.
Examples of aeronautics activities include constructing a ring wing glider out of an aluminum beverage can to investigate gliding flight, and making an indoor hot air balloon out of a plastic film drycleaner bag to investigate lift. Astronomy activities cover the topics of telescopes, distances in space, and remote sensing. Examples of astronomy activities include creating a pinhole viewer to investigate the inversion images produced by convex lenses of a telescope, and demonstrating the imaging process of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope with a pencil and paper activity. Communication and space science activities cover the topics of manned space flight, weightlessness, imaging, and various communication problems. Examples of communication and space science activities include designing a layout for a space station design and communicating this information accurately to a colleague, and constructing a model of the Space Shuttle orbiter from scrap materials.