ISS Education Kit English

The ISS Education Kit activity is an activity aimed at primary school children aged 8 to 10 years. The activity is summarized in 4 chapters, each of them has sections for students as textbooks and worksheets, another part is having the teacher's guide that provides an overview of the key elements of the text and indicates issues activities.

In the first chapter, entitled “The life of an astronaut " activities I undertake as painting the flag of your country, the different members of the ESA , other activities will be to locate the countries forming the ESA , say where they are different directions. These chapters also explain to the children what gravity is and make them several questions which will have to answer that body exerts greater attraction to have more stuff, another point to be treated weightlessness, how it feels to be weightless, fast enough to orbit and an experiment also weightless.

The second chapter, “A space mission " activities that will learn to write the alphabet and Maya Mayan numbers , plus children will begin to learn how to write letters. They made ​​several experiments including one on how things sink and float them, one on measure indoor and outdoor temperature at different times of day and answer several questions about what clothes would depend what temperature they are. Crafts will be several in this issue such as making a "movie" of rockets that actually consist of several similar images staple on rockets faster then pass them to believe feeling that the rocket is moving. They will ask questions about how fast Iran in different modes of transport. They will have to do some test questions among which are how many hours are 2 days and 2 hours? Or if the space station takes 1.5 hours to circle the Earth, how many minutes to take the trip? This activity concludes Chapter 2.

The third chapter, “Aboard the Space Station" will return to the subject of geography where students have to write the names of the different oceans, on all continents and several countries in Europe. This topic will also learn to use a compass with which they guide. Another is to say that is the Earth, the Sun and various celestial bodies, also carried a story in addition to improve your writing will improve your originality and creativity. They will craft you will build the Solar System and Space Station. Learn geometry as they will have to say the different names of different geometric shapes such as square or rectangle, plus math to be undertaken by various problems and finally conducted an experiment in which children blindfolded have to guess that food they are eating.

The last chapter, “Life in Space" will be several experiments that try not to lose orientation, another experiment with fluids which put oil in a jug and then pour over colored water and see that happens , the last experiment will be conducted to see what surfaces slide over objects . This chapter will review exercises several of the above issues and will have to make schedule changes in different areas of the world. Finally also have to generate different questions that would make them in an interview with an astronaut.

Ultimately in this activity students 6th grade education learn about many topics such as writing, geography or mathematics and also will do while performing experiments on things and Crafts astronauts and space. So I think that this activity will be very attractive to children learn while having fun.