Spaceward bound Lesson plans
Spring 2009-2010
Battle Ship
David Mejia, Brittany Camp
10/11th grades, Chemistry, Encore High School
Desert Biome, Spaceward Bound and Scientific Research
Crystal Sandoval
9th grade, Centennial High School
May 16, 2010
Chemical Composition of Soil – Sample Analysis
Caroline Gott
9th grade, Redlands High School
June 10, 2010
Snowball Earth
Kaitlin Hom
7th grade, Ramona High School
June 11, 2010
student authored, NASA inspired
Spring 2011
Stromatolites: Stories in Stone
Caroline Gott
9th grade, Earth Sciences
North High School
May 24, 2011
What is the importance of studying analogs, both organismal and geological?
Geofrey Payton
9th grade, Honors Biology
Centennial High School
May 27, 2011
Microbial Life
George Kaladjian
11th grade, Biology
Centennial High School
May 26, 2011
Mud Batteries: How to build them and how they work.
Andrea Gonzalez, Alexandra Olano, Amina Razzak, & Kara Rotunno
12th grade, Physics
iPoly High School
May 9-18, 2011
What is the importance of dirt to NASA?
Ruben Hovansian
6th grade, Earth Science
Wilson Middle School
May 23, 2011
Extremophiles and the Definition of life
Sarah Saleemi
11-12th grade, Chemistry
Chafee High School
April 22, 2011
The following lessons were developed by pre-service teachers from Cal Poly Pomona as part of a post-expedition course entitled Bringing Field Research into the Classroom (CHM and BIO 400), which is offered in the spring quarter immediately following the Spaceward Bound field experience.
This course tasks each student with both the development of a standards-based lesson plan, based upon Spaceward Bound, and presentation of the lesson plan in a local K12 classroom.
Posted below are the final course assignments, which comprise the lesson plans and materials associated with the teaching component.
In an effort to promote the inclusion of astrobiology into the classroom, we encourage the use or adaptation of these lessons and materials. Accordingly, we ask that the respective student authors and Spaceward Bound Director be referenced in any related work.
EXTREMophiles!
Monica Santander
7th grade, Ramona High School
June 7, 2010
Collecting Microbial Samples
Sneha Tharayil
7th grade, Ramona Junior High
June 9, 2009
Sustainability of Life on Earth and other planets and celestial bodies
Misa Austin, Juliana Capra
7th grade, Ramona Junior High
June 4, 2009
Topography of Mars
Paul Robinson
6th grade, Redwood Elementary School
June 8, 2010
Global Positional Systems and You!
Garrett Ritchie, Arya Afshari
2nd grade, Cypress Elementary School
May 2010
