Artemis I Launch
What are the ingredients required to survive regardless of time, space, and place?
Artemis I Launch
NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission is poised to launch a new era of U.S. lunar exploration.
Artemis 1 is an uncrewed test flight of the massive Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket and its Orion spacecraft, which NASA will use for crewed flights to the moon later this decade. The planned launch date for Artemis 1 is Aug. 29, with Sept. 2 and Sept. 5 as backup days.
Want to know the times in your location? See the launch and launch broadcast times.
Artemis I is an uncrewed flight test that will lay the foundation for a sustained long-term presence on and around the Moon. This pioneering mission will be the first integrated flight of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and integrated Orion spacecraft, which will help us get a feel for what astronauts will experience on future flights.
The SLS rocket is targeted to launch during a two-hour window that opens at 8:33 a.m. EDT Monday, Aug. 29, from Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center.
You can watch a live broadcast starting Monday at 6:30 a.m. EDT on our website and on NASA TV, as well as YouTube and NASA’s App. (Stay tuned during the broadcast for celebrity appearances by Jack Black, Chris Evans, and Keke Palmer.) Additionally, we’re airing a Spanish-language broadcast starting at 7:30 a.m. EDT on NASA en español’s YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook accounts.
This page is designed to provide some guidance to activities, lessons, and ways to incorporate this very exciting and monumental event into your classroom. This can be the springboard to the project that lies ahead to begin to develop wonder, questions, and intigue.
Again, this is to help provide some resources and ideas. Use what you think is best.
Additionally, I am using a simple, but useful framework for the lesson structure as I know that each of you have your own templates and expectations. For the sake of simplicity I am using the 4 C's approach of LEGO Education which can be found here
Consider
All of you are coming into this project from different angles. It is not ideal to list all the potential standards for each lane you work in. However, it is important that we don't miss an opportunity to align our standards and work we are aiming to do each day in our learning space with this event. This can be a powerful learning event with intention and design. Think about your goals, your standards, and how you could possibly bundle some standards to tap into the potential learning of this event.
Choose your standard of focus depending on class, subject, and/or grade
I can…… (DOK Level)
I can ……. (DOK Level)
Host a Watch Party
Host or join an official watch party: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/artemis-i-registration-144043131885
All resources, participation, and registration are FREE. Register to let NASA know that you’re hosting a watch party, virtually participating, or would like to receive the STEM Learning Pathway! Registration will provide communications about launch schedule changes, information about launch related activities, and access to curated launch resources.
The resources are great! I just received the first one Friday, August 26th so sign up right away!
Connect
The Connect phase is all about triggering the motivation of the learners through tingling their curiosity, helping them see the relevance of the learning content. It is also important to support the learners to believe in their own possible success with the learning process and content, and by giving the learner a feeling that the learning is satisfactory to him in one way or the other.
To connect the new field of knowledge and skills to knowledge that the students have already is important in the Connect phase. This is an effective way of supporting the students to believe in their own possible success by getting them to feel that they are not completely blank on this topic/ in this field as a starting point – they have a knowledge or skill base to start on.
Connecting to what the student already knows and/or already can do also enables the students’ experience of flow early in the learning process.
Prior to discussing details of the project or even this important launch event of Artemis I ask the class to share(document their ideas on whiteboard, document, etc.) what they know about. Capture all ideas even if they are far fetched and not accurate.
NASA
Artemis
Moon
Mars
Provide students time to explore information about the Artemis Program or specifically Artemis I
This is a great article but not sure if Medium is allowed to be used in schools
- Share class pictures, activities, and more in our Google Space if you are part of the project
Live Launch
Watch the live launch or rebroadcast of the event on August 29th
Timeline of events https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive
Your Personal Tour Guide
The Moon. Earth’s most famous natural satellite… and your new travel destination. This handy travel guide can help everyone from space travel rookies to seasoned galactic explorers figure out exactly what to see, what to bring, and how to prepare for Artemis I.
Share a #NASAMoonSnap
Are you inspired by the Moon? So are we! Share your Moon content with the hashtag #NASAMoonSnap on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit and we will select some submissions to share on our social media, our website, and during the launch broadcast!
Construct
The Construct phase approach to learning creates a situation where the learners are given tools and a system to construct real, meaningful objects and artifacts with which they can experiment and experience cause and effect, observe connections, and understand more about the world around them.
The construct phase gives learners an opportunity to experience the learning content through several different modalities (senses) which - via research on embodied cognition - has shown to be of great importance for an effective learning process and a long-lasting learning outcome. When we use our body and especially our hands, a large portion of the brain is activated, which offers a greater chance of learning more effectively.
What is Artemis
These resources are STEM extensions to further connect Artemis to the classroom through STEM approaches.
New Resource
NASA is committed to landing American astronauts, including the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon under the Artemis program. Through the agency’s Artemis lunar exploration program, we will use innovative new technologies and systems to explore more of the Moon than ever before.
**These activities come from the STEM NASA website
Contemplate
During the Contemplate phase, the learners are given the opportunity to contemplate on what they experienced during the construct phase. They are facilitated through a reflection process where they consider what they have constructed and what they observed while constructing and experimenting. Contemplation is facilitated by the teacher and is a way to support learners to think consciously about what they have achieved during the Construct phase.
So the Contemplate phase is a reflection process that often goes on between students in groups reflecting together and putting words to what they have experienced during the Construct phase. The teacher is playing a key role in this process as he is facilitating this reflection process ensuring that questions are asked to students which will support their shared reflection and verbalization process.
I wonder......
When the children have finished viewing the launch, exploring the resources, etc., consider asking questions like:
What happened that you still have questions about?
Why do you think they placed the science experiments they chose on this first launch?
What do you think they will need to rethink, add, modify or continue for the next launch?
Do you think this is important for us to reach the Moon and one day Mars?
Continue
The Continue phase presents the learners with an activity or a challenge that brings into play the knowledge and skills acquired during the Construct-Contemplate phases. The Continue activity should be one that lets the learners apply the skills and experiment with the knowledge they have gained in order to experience flow in the application of the knowledge and skills.
Can we keep going?
You can let students know that more is to come with this project. Depending on your approach to participating in this project you can connect to current or upcoming learning of survival, discovery, and exploration from the past and present. Additionally, you can tease or let them know this is just the first step of our own journey exploring the world, space, and ourselves.
Here are some additional things to use if you wish.
Capture visuals, written, storyboard, etc. whatever your method of choice is to have students capture how this learning opportunity connects to our driving question and throughline. Don’t lose these thoughts.
Driving Question
What are the ingredients to survive regardless of time, space, and place?
2022 Focused Throughline
“Discovery is not place specific” - Steven Smith
Let them know another major event is happening soon and that we will be exploring this driving question through exploration of past, present and future with more exciting things to come.
Major Event 2 - September 26th
The Double Asteroid Redirect Test impact milestone occurs on Monday, September 26 at 7:14PM EDT with live coverage starting at 6:00pm EDT on NASA TV, NASA YouTube, NASA Facebook and NASA Twitter. For further information on live event coverage, resources for students and educators and additional background please visit: https://go.nasa.gov/DARTResources
Criteria
Students and Instructor use criteria to determine levels of proficiency
For this particular event and lesson I do not have any criteria posted. However, as the project unfolds rubrics and learning progressions and performance tasks assessments will be shared here in this space so that we can ensure learning is happening.
Bonus Resources
In this episode, I speak with Steven C. Smith is the Education Specialist for NASA’s Educator Professional Development Collaborative at the Johnson Space Center. Steven helps to develop, package, and deliver professional development and STEM Engagement opportunities that translate the work and discoveries of NASA for use in the classroom. His work allows students to participate directly in NASA’s missions, and helps teachers make content more accessible for all their students. Steven has the great privilege of working with educators all over the country, helping them create culturally responsive lessons that will engage students that have previously felt left out of the amazing work NASA is doing.
He holds degrees from the University of Washington, Brigham Young University, Georgia College and State University, and Middle Georgia State University. Prior to his work with NASA, Steven spent 20 years in K-12 education coaching educators and teaching special education, regular education, honors, and AP students in Georgia, Washington State, and New Jersey.
Artemis I: NASA's Most Powerful Rocket Newsletter
Launch continues to target no earlier than
Monday, August 29th at 8:33 a.m. EDT.
You can watch the broadcast here starting at 6:30 a.m. EDT on Monday, August 29.
Want to know the times in your location? See the launch and launch broadcast times.
The journey of half a million miles – the first flight of the Artemis Generation – is about to begin. The uncrewed Artemis I mission will jump-start humanity’s return to the Moon with the thunderous liftoff of NASA’s powerful new Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft. Artemis I is ready for departure – and, together with our partners around the world, we are ready to return to the Moon, with our sights on Mars and beyond.
So Excited for Launch You Can't keep still?
(us too!) Keep those hands busy and learn to draw a fleet of sophisticated space hardware – similar to the way NASA engineers and technicians sketched out early concepts. It's ARTemis week so it's a perfect time!
More into coloring? Check out an Artemis Coloring sheet!
"See" yourself as part of the mission
Can’t wait to see the SLS rocket on the launch pad? Picture it in your own backyard! Try out our Snapchat AR Filter: Backyard Rocket and see how the launch would appear from the mission control room at Kennedy Space Center.
Submitted a #NASAMoonSnap yet? Take a look at what others have decided they would pack for the Moon, including astronauts, NASA photographers, and other creative people like you!
Want more?
See the schedule of prelaunch, launch, and postlaunch activities
Catch up with the latest blog posts on progress her