This resource book for the media specialist or for use in the G/T classroom offers substantive information combined with an activity orientation that aims to "demystify space" for today's students. The text provides a comprehensive overview of the whole field of space science. It presents hands-on activities that integrate space science with other curriculum areas. These range from man's first contemplation of flight to rockets, space shuttles, hypersonic planes, space colonies, and space stations.
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Great book to show how to incorporate aerospace into almost any curriculum. Airplanes, rockets, space, etc. is such a GREAT way to "hook" a student!
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In the National Endowment for the Humanities report American Memory, Dr. Lynne Cheney rhetorically asks, "If literature connects us to permanent concerns, then shouldn't every young person read it?"1 Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
aerospace terms, commercial jet travel, crew module, first dirigible, library media specialist, demonstration aids, flight pioneers, payload bay, school letterhead, manned maneuvering unit, recto side, aerospace science, intermediate students, multistage rocket, heat barrier, aviation careers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, World War, National Air, United States, History of Aviation, Aerospace Magnet, Information Please Almanac, Kitty Hawk, Colorado Springs, Space Almanac, First Americans, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, Captain Gardner, Department of Transportation, Maxwell Air Force Base, Bernoulli's Principle, Civil Air Patrol, Government Printing Office, Amelia Earhart, Otto Lilienthal, Solar System, Johnson Space Center, Sally Ride, Smithsonian Institution New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
In the National Endowment for the Humanities report American Memory, Dr. Lynne Cheney rhetorically asks, "If literature connects us to permanent concerns, then shouldn't every young person read it?"1 Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
aerospace terms, commercial jet travel, crew module, first dirigible, library media specialist, demonstration aids, flight pioneers, payload bay, school letterhead, manned maneuvering unit, recto side, aerospace science, intermediate students, multistage rocket, heat barrier, aviation careers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, World War, National Air, United States, History of Aviation, Aerospace Magnet, Information Please Almanac, Kitty Hawk, Colorado Springs, Space Almanac, First Americans, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, Captain Gardner, Department of Transportation, Maxwell Air Force Base, Bernoulli's Principle, Civil Air Patrol, Government Printing Office, Amelia Earhart, Otto Lilienthal, Solar System, Johnson Space Center, Sally Ride, Smithsonian Institution New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The National Air and Space Museum by C.D.B. Bryan on 15 pages
- History of Aviation by John William Ransom Taylor on 9 pages
- Spirit Of St. Louis by Charles A. Lindbergh on 9 pages
- Aviation: An Historical Survey by Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith on 8 pages
- The Omni Space Almanac by Neil McAleer on 6 pages
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