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An Interdisciplinary Unit on Space

The curriculum objectives for each discipline are:

MATH - Students will express numbers in scientific notation, compute distances between planets, find circumferences of planets, and order and compare planet sizes. 

SCIENCE - Students will use physics to understand, and demonstrate, rocket propulsion.  

ENGLISH - Students will develop research skills by independently investigating the possibilities of forming a colony off-planet (i.e. the Moon, Mars, a space station, an asteroid, etc.).  Students will use various media resources including magazines, library and software encyclopedias, expert opinions, and the Internet.

SOCIAL STUDIES - Students will develop a time line of important events in space exploration history.  Students will investigate the space programs ties to famous astronauts from Indiana.

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Last updated December 5, 2000.