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Overview
- Objectives
To learn about the manned Apollo
missions and some of the important contributions that the
Apollo program made.
To put the Apollo missions into historical
perspective by looking at missions that came before and
ones that came after or are planned for the future.
Activities
1. Read and Research
Have students find out more about
each of the six Lunar Landing Apollo Missions and the one
aborted mission. Information about the crew, landing locations,
a mission summary and additional images for each of the
lunar flights are listed or provided at the Lunar
Landing Sites page. Students can be divided into groups
and one group assigned to research each mission.
Have students record information
on a chart
(a sample chart is included here) including important facts
about the mission. If your class is divided into research
groups, the chart can be used for note taking as each group
presents its findings.
The Lunar
Exploration Timeline provides a quick look at all missions
starting with flyby missions in 1959.
2. Create a Presentation
Using the images on the sites listed
at Lunar Landing
Sites, students can create a multimedia presentation
using HyperStudio, PowerPoint or the web. (Photos from the
NASA sites are in public domain and can be used for educational
purposes. Check the copyright/use notices for specific details.
) Have students read and use the ideas at the Report/Presentation
Page to help with this.
3. Map the Landings
Print out the Apollo
Landing sites map and the coordinates given to locate
each mission. (The mission numbers have been removed from
this Moon map
so that students can use a copy for a mapping exercise.)
A
chart of Apollo Lunar Landings which you can print out
for student use will provide them with the Latitude and
Longitude of each landing site. Used online, there is a
link to each mission as well as links to graphics and a
QuickTime movie for each of the landing destinations.
4. Lead students in a discussion
to help them try to determine the important scientific discoveries
made during the Apollo program's exploration of the moon.
NASA has listed Top
10 Scientific Discoveries on its web pages. Students
may have additional items they feel are important as well
after their research.
5. Importance of the Apollo Missions
Have students add to the list of
the importance of exploration of the Moon by researching
the explorations done since the Apollo
Missions . These missions includes the Soviet
Union Luna which had 20 missions (1959-76), Hiten
(1990), Clementine
(1994), and Lunar
Prospector (1998) . Students may want to look at ones
being planned for the future which include the SMART
1 (2002) mission planned by the European Space Agency
and the
Lunar-A (2003) and Selene
missions (2003), both planned by Japan.
The Lunar
Exploration Timeline provides a quick look at all missions
starting with flyby missions in 1959.
NOTE: In the Lunar
Landing chart and Lunar Module
chart provided at this site include links to the URLs
for each mission and addresses for additional resources
so that if the pages are printed for student use they can
type in the appropriate sites as they work at the computer.
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Lunar Landings - Apollo Missions
