Rendezvous with a Comet Curriculum
Welcome to the Rendezvous with a Comet Teacher's Guide. Here you will find curriculum and instructional materials to prepare your students for their mission at the Challenger Learning Center. This guide includes pre-mission activities for the whole group and teams, along with cross-curriculum and post-mission activities.
See how Rendezvous with a Comet aligns to Common Core Standards, 21st Century Skills, and NGSS here: Comet Standards Alignment.
CHALLENGER CENTER BOOKLETS
| Comet Prep Booklet (whole class activities) | Mission Prep Booklet (activities for teams) |
WHOLE GROUP ACTIVITIES
TEAM ACTIVITIES
| COMMUNICATIONS | ISOLATION | LIFE SUPPORT | MEDICAL |
| Vocabulary | Vocabulary | Vocabulary | Vocabulary |
| Communication Practice |
Robots & Job-Bots: |
Acids & Bases | Reaction Time |
| Matrix Decoded |
Radioactivity: |
Humidity | Puffy Head & Bird Legs |
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Reading Lab Equipment | Heart Rate and Movement | |
| NAVIGATION | PROBE | REMOTE | SPACE WEATHER |
| Vocabulary | Vocabulary | Vocabulary | Vocabulary |
| Star Wars & Magnitude | Zoomerang | Plants in Space | Storm Signals |
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Blast the Meteor: |
Identifying & Reading Lab Equipment: Student Page Teacher Page |
Sunspot Regions | |
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Pixel Imagery | Check out NASA's Space Weather Action Center & More flipcharts here. | |
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PRESS |
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| The 5 W's | |||
| Conducting Interviews |
CROSS CURRICULUM ACTIVITIES
| LANGUAGE ARTS | MATH | SCIENCE | SOCIAL STUDIES |
| Write to an Astronaut | Draw a Space Shuttle 1 Draw a Space Shuttle 2 |
Comet Cones: Student Page Teacher Page |
Space Exploration |
| Space Commercial | Launch Pad Squares: Student Page Teacher Page |
Design a Space Habitat | Timeline of Tomorrow |
| Designing a Space Helmet: Student Page Teacher Page |
Space Junk: Student Page Teacher Page |
Celebrating Space | |
| Measuring the Distance to the Sun: Student Page Teacher Page |