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Preparing to use these resources
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Experience has shown that the best way to use these resources is to:
- Begin by printing out the entire portfolio which is appropriate to the grade level and background of your students. Transparency masters can be printed directly onto colour (or grayscale) transparencies, or printed on ordinary paper and then photocopied onto transparencies.
Hint: Grayscale transparencies are helpful as they can be highlighted with colour markers when you are discussing them in class.
- Read over the material. Make margin notes for yourself, so that you can easily align the information to your student's backgrounds and abilities.
- Print or photocopy the student assignments and activities so that they may be handed out to your class at the appropriate time.
Using these units as a basis for teaching other subjects such as art, language, and mathematics will give students additional insight into the concepts of living, travelling and working in space.
Within each unit are:
- printable pages with explanatory notes,
- transparency masters for overhead projectors,
- meaningful student problem sets,
- construction/laboratory exercises,
- research activities.
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What this module is not . . .
This is not a self-directed student web-search.
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Expected Student Background
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As these are introductory science units little or no background is assumed.
In order to use this unit effectively students should be familiar with the following:
- reading, writing, and verbal skills appropriate to their grade level.
- arithmetic skills appropriate to their grade level.
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How to use these units
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There are many possible ways to use these units. Generally however, teachers print out each set of notes, duplicate them and hand them out to the students.
Where appropriate have students read a section and write a summary in their notebooks, then use the transparencies as a focus for further class discussion.
Student assignments are usually printed, copied, and handed out.
After the students have had a chance to work through each assignment it should be "taken-up"
Please Note: This portfolio is designed to focus on concepts related to space science. Although it covers a wide variety of subjects it is not meant to be a definitive treatment of these topics.
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