Classroom Resource

Make Your Own Space Shuttle Adventure

Subject Area

Science
Digital Literacy and Computer Science

Grade(s)

6

Overview

This is a lesson plan from Google for Education, Applied Digital Skills. During this lesson, students collaborate to create a presentation about the Space Shuttle Discovery.  As they complete the lesson, students will build a slide presentation using a starter project, tell a story using information about the Space Shuttle Discovery from Google Arts & Culture, and explore content in Google Arts & Culture to find information. Students will be able to answer the following essential question: What is significant historically, scientifically, and culturally about the Space Shuttle Discovery?

Digital Literacy and Computer Science (2018) Grade(s): 6

DLCS18.6.16

Communicate and/or publish collaboratively to inform others from a variety of backgrounds and cultures about issues and problems.

Unpacked Content

UP:DLCS18.6.16

Knowledge

Students know:
  • how to use a platform to share and inform others of a variety of backgrounds about issues or problems important to them.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • publish and communicate as creators of content and information, instead of only consumers of the same.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • being able to communicate effectively and disseminate that information to reach a broader audience is an important part of being a global collaborator.
Science (2015) Grade(s): 6

SC15.6.2

Construct models and use simulations (e.g., diagrams of the relationship between Earth and man-made satellites, rocket launch, International Space Station, elliptical orbits, black holes, life cycles of stars, orbital periods of objects within the solar system, astronomical units and light years) to explain the role of gravity in affecting the motions of celestial bodies bodies (e.g., planets, moons, comets, asteroids, meteors) within galaxies and the solar system.

Unpacked Content

UP:SC15.6.2

Vocabulary

  • Model
  • Simulation
  • Gravity
  • Gravitational force
  • Solar system
  • Galaxy
  • Milky Way galaxy
  • Sun
  • Planets
  • Moons
  • Asteroids
  • Asteroid belt
  • Stars
  • Celestial bodies
  • Elliptical orbit

Knowledge

Students know:
  • The solar system is a collection of bodies, including the sun, planets, moons, comets, asteroids, and meteors.
  • A galaxy is any of the very large groups of stars and associated matter that are found throughout the universe.
  • The Earth's solar system is one of many systems orbiting the center of the larger system of the Milky Way galaxy.
  • Gravity is an attractive force between solar system and galaxy objects.
  • Gravity increases as the mass of the interacting objects increases.
  • Gravity decreases as the distances between objects increases.
  • Gravity affects the orbital motion of objects in our solar system (e.g., moons orbit around planets, all objects within the solar system orbit the sun).
  • Gravity is a predominantly inward-pulling force that can keep smaller/less massive objects in orbit around larger/more massive objects.
  • Gravity causes a pattern of smaller/less massive objects orbiting around larger/more massive objects at all system scales in the universe.
  • Gravitational forces from planets cause smaller objects (e.g., moons) to orbit around planets.
  • The gravitational force of the sun causes the planets and other bodies to orbit around it, holding the solar system together.
  • The gravitational forces from the center of the Milky Way cause stars and stellar systems to orbit around the center of the galaxy.
  • The hierarchy pattern of orbiting systems in the solar system was established early in its history as the disk of dust and gas was driven by gravitational forces to form moon-planet and planet-sun orbiting systems.
  • Objects too far away from the sun do not orbit it because the sun's gravitational force on those objects is too weak to pull them into orbit.
  • Without gravity smaller planets would move in straight paths through space, rather than orbiting a more massive body.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Develop a model and identify the relevant components including gravity and celestial bodies.
  • Describe the relationships and interactions between the components of the solar and galaxy systems.
  • Use the model to describe gravity and its effects.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Gravity is an attractive force between solar system and galaxy objects.
  • Gravity causes a pattern of smaller/less massive objects orbiting around larger/more massive objects at all systems scales in the universe.

Scientific and Engineering Practices

Developing and Using Models

Crosscutting Concepts

Systems and System Models
Link to Resource
https://applieddigitalskills.withgoogle.com/c/middle-and-high-school/en/make-yo…

CR Resource Type

Lesson/Unit Plan

Resource Provider

Google For Education Applied Digital Skills

Resource Provider other

Google For Education Applied Digital Skills
Accessibility

Accessibility

Text Resources: Content is organized under headings and subheadings
Video resources: includes closed captioning or subtitles
License

License Type

Attribution Share Alike

Custom License Type (URL)

https://creativecommons.org/licenses

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