Sept. 15, 2010: Shuttle Program Winds Down

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Activities:

1. Draw a picture of the space shuttle. Paste newspaper words that describe the shuttle around your drawing.

2. Ask family and friends about what they think the space program should do next. What ideas were shared?

3. Find five people in the newspaper who have the knowledge or qualities an astronaut should have. Write a sentence about your choices.

4. How are these important to the space program: (a) ISS, (b) Soyuz, (c) Enterprise, and (d) Orion?

5. Use the Internet to research and write about one of the astronauts. What was his/her background? Why did he/she want to go into space? What is he/ she doing now?

Mini Page activities meet many state and national educational standards. Each week we identify standards that relate to The Mini Page content and offer activities that will help your students reach them. This week's standard:

• Students understand science and technology. (Science: Science and Technology)
  
  

(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)