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Welcome to this month's issue of ProQuest Teachable Moments. This issue focuses on a myriad of topics, including space exploration, gardening, the Panama Canal, hurricanes, the importance of volunteering, student safety and wellness, lesson planning with eLibrary BookCarts, plus much more.
In addition, you'll find our popular SIRS Spotlights and SIRS ChallengeQuests included as part of our summer newsletter upgrade program. (More details below.)
Our monthly enewsletter delivers a set of hands-on learning activities that encourage students to conduct quality research and produce meaningful results to increase their knowledge and understanding of everything from basic math to literature to history and beyond. Keep in mind that these activities are not duplicated in our other monthly newsletters, which also contain ready-made lessons.
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SIRS Spotlights
Space Exploration
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Space exploration comprises many of the most remarkable scientific and technological achievements of the 20th century. Many of the initial milestones were motivated by the “space race” between the Soviet Union and the United States. The USSR completed a series of space “firsts,” including the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957 and the completion of space station Salyut in 1971, while the American space program achieved the first Moon landing in 1969.
Developments in space exploration, such as advancements in rocketry and innovations in computers and telescopes, allowed scientists to set their sights beyond our solar system, revolutionizing humanity’s perception of the universe. The examination of such findings as black holes, dwarf stars, quasars and galaxies has resulted in the reworking of old scientific and mathematical theories and the cultivation of new ones. But even as secrets of the universe are revealed, many mysteries remain, even within our own solar system.
A recent ruling by the International Astronomical Union has downgraded Pluto to dwarf planet status, lowering the number of planets in the Solar System to eight, and recent evidence from Mars suggests it once contained water. Learn more about space exploration efforts in such articles as:
Articles
1. The Sounds of Spacetime
2. The Planet Hunters
3. Of Cosmic Proportions
4. All About the North Star
5. Space Science: Origins, Evolution, and Organization
Web Destination
Timeline: The Robotic Exploration of Space
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SIRS Discoverer®
Since the Soviet Union’s launch of the first man-made object into outer space in 1957, space exploration has made significant contributions to science, mathematics, and technology.
The success of Sputnik 1 began the “space race” between the USSR and the United States. Both countries worked separately toward the same goals: to put satellites in orbit, to send men into space, and to travel to the moon. The U.S. established the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in 1958, and 11 years later the American-manned craft Apollo 11 landed on the moon.
Technological developments allowed scientists to explore beyond our solar system, leading to discoveries such as black holes and galaxies. But our own solar system continues to surprise us: there is now evidence of a planet beyond Pluto and indications that Mars once held water. The exploration of space, once a competitive field, has recently become a cooperative one. Several countries are pooling their exploratory efforts with the creation of the International Space Station (ISS).
Learn more about the history, milestones, and heroes of space exploration and ponder a half-century of discoveries in such articles as:
Articles
1. A Decision of Cosmic Proportions
2. The Secrets of Orion
3. Having a Blast (Off)
4. Taking Up Space: Mission 1
5. The Columbus of the Cosmos
Web Destination
Challenging the Space Frontier
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SIRS ChallengeQuests
Safety & Space
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Educators, welcome to our collection of SIRS® Challenge Quests! Students can view this month's quests, and last month's answers, inside your SIRS subscription(s) during the third
week of the new month.
We recommend that you send students to the online version of these activities to give them a chance to
find the answers on their own. You may save this email for your personal use as an answer key.
To access these activities via your SIRS subscription, click on Suggested Research Topics under
Database Features.
SIRS Discoverer®
June is National Safety Month. This year’s theme, “Celebrating Safe Communities,” aims to promote safety in the workplace, on the roads and in the home. The National Safety Council, which sponsors National Safety Month, helps to make the world a safer place with safety-education programs and injury-prevention ideas. Other organizations also strive for public safety. In 2006, one such group petitioned to limit the maximum speed of large trucks.
What is the name of the group that wants to limit large trucks’ maximum speed, and what would that maximum speed be?
Answer Pathfinder
Subject Heading(s):
Speed limits; Traffic safety; Trucking; Trucks
Keywords:
“large trucks” (by date); “maximum speed” (by date); “speed limit” (by date)
Topic Browse Path:
TECHNOLOGY: Transportation: cars, trucks & buses
Article(s) | Site(s):
“Truckers Endorse Speed Limit,” Kidsnewsroom, Feb. 17-24, 2007
Answer:
The American Trucking Association (ATA) has petitioned the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to limit the maximum speed of large trucks to 68 mph.
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SIRS Knowledge Source®
From the late 1950s through the mid-1970s, the United States and the Soviet Union competed in the aptly named “space race.” The USSR launched Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, and its successful orbit of the Earth was the first of its kind. The US responded with the creation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) the following year. Over the following decades, both countries made great strides in the exploration of space.
Who was the first man in space? In what year was this historic mission accomplished?
A. Laika, in 1957
B. Yuri Gagarin, in 1961
C. Aleksei Leonov, in 1965
D. Neil Armstrong, in 1969
Article(s) | Site(s):
"The Voyagers," Why We Explore, June 29, 2006, Government Reporter
Answer:
C. Yuri Gagarin, in 1961
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SIRS® Researcher
How can we ensure that nature’s treasures are not lost?
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Flower gardens provide the variety of colors, fragrances, shapes, and textures that inspire and bring pleasure to people of all ages. They also attract a multitude of beautiful insects and birds to provide additional interest and enjoyment beyond the plants and flowers themselves. All of these treasures of nature should remind us of how precious our environment is and how fragile it has become because of our lack of balanced environmental protection laws and regulations.
Activity: Here are some examples of issues that relate to environment protection. Teachers can choose one or more for students to research and present their conclusions, either pro or con: Conservation of Natural Resources; Environmentalism; Global Warming; and Pollution.
Assign students either a pro or con position on one of these related issues. Leading Issues provides the resources and the process for students to use the editor-selected resources to support both points of view.
Leading Issues also provides four custom models of student projects that provide a variety of student projects for the research process. Click the Educators’ Resources link at the top of the Search page. Look for these unique models that are correlated with the content and process steps of Leading Issues. They include two teacher management versions and four related guides and templates for students.
- Guide to Writing a Research Paper – Student
- Guide to Writing a Mini-Research Paper – Student and Teacher Editions
- Guide to Creating a Debate Outline – Student and Teacher Editions
- Guide to Creating a PowerPoint Presentation – Student Template
Reminder: Don't miss our new Leading Issues handout, perfect for filling in access information and sending home with your students to encourage research on these important topics.
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SIRS Discoverer®
How important is the flag to national unity and pride?
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National Flag Week spans June 10-16 this year. Each year since Congress established this special observance in 1949, the President is requested to issue a proclamation calling for its observance and for the display of the flag of the United States on all Federal Government buildings. The Congress also requested that all citizens of the United States display the American flag during that week.
During Flag Day and National Flag Week, we also honor the men and women who carry our flag into battle. Through their bravery and sacrifice, they help keep America safe and advance peace and freedom around the globe. By flying the flag, we express our gratitude to these heroes and all those who help ensure that the many blessings of our great country continue for generations to come.
Activity: Knowledge about the history of the American flag is appropriate for all students and especially today with so many new citizens and visitors with green card who are working or attending colleges in our country. Type American Flag in the Subject Heading search box > click Search > American Flag.
Student should create a report of 150 to 200 words, citing at least two sources. The report should summarize information using the following outline:
- History of the present design of the American flag.
- Rules of respect for displaying the flag and why.
- Why the display of the flag is important to American unity and culture.
- How the flag helps to promote patriotism especially in times of war or threats.
- What they would do to stop or punish disrespect for the flag.
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Why is the Panama Canal one of the wonders of the modern world?
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The Panama Canal is a major ship canal that crosses the Isthmus of Panama, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The U.S. originally bought the rights to the build in the Canal Zone from Columbia prior to 1904 along with a guarantee for the creation of the independent country of Panama.
Construction of the canal was begun in 1904 and completed ten years later in 1914. It was one of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken. It provided all the countries of the world with a long-awaited alternative to the long, expensive, and dangerous natural shipping route used for centuries to connect the Atlantic and Pacific -- the Drake Passage and Cape Horn at the southernmost tip of South America.
Thirty years ago, in 1977, bowing to pressure from Panama and South American countries, President Jimmy Carter signed the Torrijos-Carter Treaty. This established the timeline for the eventual takeover and control of the Panama Canal Zone by Panama by the year 2000.
Activity: ProQuest has created a model BookCart to help jump-start teachers in assigning a mini-research activity on this historical topic: Panama Canal -- History, Takeover, and Future. To learn how to copy this BookCart and others to My Local Carts, click here.
Teachers will discover that this BookCart includes models of essential questions for critical thinking. Teachers can assign these questions and create others to ensure that students have an in-depth learning experience rather than a scavenger hunt for facts.
Teachers and librarians will also find that there is ample room to include student directions, correlated print resources, and assessment information for their students. Including this information provides students with a complete picture of what they should do with the BookCart resources. The suggested student directions would include either a two-minute (7-10 slide) PowerPoint or a 250-300 word written report. Models for a mini-research report can be found in the following guide.
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Why is summer a time when injuries to students increase?
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June Is Summer Safety Month. It’s a time when most students are more active and especially outdoors. Along with this great time come the hazards of bee stings, scraped knees, drowning, campfires and burns, outdoor sports injuries, bicycling and hiking injuries, etc.
Activity: Before school ends, assign students a research project that let’s them learn to be more aware of these hazards, how to prevent them, and what to do if something does go wrong.
Click the Topics tab > Science >> Health >> Health Issues >> Safety >> Recreational & Sports Activities. You will find a variety of links to subtopics that correlate to safety and summer recreation. Assign students a different activity so that their reports can be shared and they can learn from each other. Students should use two resources for their oral report of two minutes. Be sure they address the following model for their reports:
- What is the summer activity that you are researching?
- What hazards are there associated with participating in this activity?
- What can you do to prevent injury to yourself and others who participate with you?
- What would you do in the event of at least two types of injuries that could happen?
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How is gardening dependent upon the Environmental Movement?
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June Is Perennial Gardening and also Rose Month. As we think about gardens and nature, we are reminded about the increasing threats to the environment being caused by the rapid increase in industrialization. This concern has gained international recognition from many of the major countries of the world in the drafting of the Kyoto Treaty.
In the past, the United States has decided not to ratify environmental treaties such as the Kyoto Protocol, though other countries with high greenhouse emissions, such as Brazil, China, and India, are signatories. As one of the largest and most industrialized nations in the world, the U.S., through the pollution its companies emit, has a wide-reaching effect on the global environment. Similarly, because of its wealth and economic influence, the United States can significantly hamper or help world-wide environmental clean-up plans.
Activity: Refer to the Extremes section of the Data Tables in the CultureGrams Online World Edition. Note that the United States is one of the top (if not the top) polluters in every section listed. Have your students talk about why the United States pollutes so much (you might look at major industries, the size of its economy and population, etc.). Compare the levels of pollution to countries with similar economies and/or population sizes.
Talk about whether the students think the United States' actions are fair to the rest of the world. Discuss how the United States might be able to reduce pollution (answers might include recycling, lower factory and car emissions, alternative sources of fuel, etc.) Who might oppose these changes and why?
Compare the benefits and costs of the United States signing an international treaty such as the Kyoto Protocol. Read the General Attitudes section of the United States CultureGram. Which characteristics might cause U.S. Americans to resist such international treaties?
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eLibrary® Science
What makes this Hurricane Season of 2007 different from last year?
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June marks the official start of the Hurricane season in the United States. Forecasts of hurricane activity are issued before each hurricane season by noted hurricane experts Philip J. Klotzbach, Dr. William M. Gray, and their associates at Colorado State University; and separately by NOAA forecasters.
The team forecast calls for a very active hurricane season of 17 named storms, nine hurricanes and five intense hurricanes. They noted that sea-surface temperatures were much higher than long-term averages, raising the potential for more powerful storms and ones with greater duration. The potential for at least one major hurricane impacting the U.S. was increased to 74%, with the East Coast potential increased to 50% and from the Florida Panhandle westward to Brownsville, Texas increased to 49%.
However, this season is not forecast to be "as active as the 2004 and 2005 seasons."
Activity: ProQuest editors have created several BookCarts to jump-start teachers and students in using eLibrary Science effectively and also for saving time for learning.
To copy these BookCarts:
- Click the ProQuest Carts tab > Science -- Earth & Space.
- Click the Copy Icon next to Global Warming and Hurricanes and Hurricanes, Cyclones, and Typhoons.
- This will copy the BookCart into your My Local Carts collection.
- Each copied Cart will have “Copy of” preceding its name.
- Edit each to include your name as author, delete “Copy of,” and any sources that may not be available (publication rights sometimes change).
- Note the essential questions for critical thinking.
Note that the ProQuest Carts also includes other BookCarts for science topics/issues in the eLibrary Science -- BookCarts folder.
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Panama Canal Takeover Treaty -- good or bad?
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Thirty years ago, President Jimmy Carter signed a treaty with General Omar Torrijos of Panama that granted the rights and control of the Panama Canal Zone from the U.S. to Panama. The original rights to the Panama Canal Zone were purchased from Colombia in 1904. At that time Panama was a Colombian territory. The U.S. also negotiated the independence of Panama during the same negotiation.
This 1977 treaty was prompted by growing anti-American protests in Panama and South America about the continued American ownership of the Panama Canal. That accord returned full control of the canal to the Panamanians by the year 2000. There was strong opposition in the Senate to the approval of the accord, but President Carter’s initiative prevailed by a small majority. However, to ensure continued use of the canal, the treaty included the right of the U.S. to defend the canal after the Panamanian takeover.
Activity: Each report should include answers to the following essential questions for critical thinking. Teachers are encouraged to create alternative questions or add to these.
- Why did the U.S. decide to take over the Panama Canal project and build the Canal?
- What were some of the major economic, political, human, and engineering problems that were overcome?
- Why did the U.S. decide to turn over the rights to the Panama Canal to Panama?
- What is the future of the canal and what impact does this have on the U.S.?
Students should select at least three resources in addressing the assigned questions. Reports should be approximately 150 to 200 words.
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How can we preserve the beauty of nature?
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June Is Perennial Gardening and also Rose Month. The beauty of nature is at its height in the Northern Hemisphere in June. All this natural beauty should remind us that businesses, governments, and individuals have a responsibility to preserve what we enjoy now for future generations to be able to enjoy tomorrow.
Students need to discover how the vision and works of environmentalist champions of the past have made it possible for us to enjoy the beauty of nature today, whether through National Parks, zoos, cleaner water, greenways, or just open spaces.
BookCart Activity: ProQuest has created a variety of model BookCart on the environment to jump-start teachers and students in learning and achieving more through inquiry-based activities. BookCarts are being used more creatively today than ever before (see the BookCart section in this issue).
BookCarts have the resources and the essential questions to guide and motivate students to create reports that include more than facts. These questions prompt critical thinking that generates original thought and the formation of reasoned opinions. To copy one or more of these BookCarts on environmental issues to My Local Carts, click here.
Click the ProQuest Carts tab > Science -- Environmental folder. Assign a 250-300 word written report or a two-minute PowerPoint presentation with 7-10 slides on one of a variety of topics/issues in this BookCart collection on the environment.
ProQuest Learning: Literature Activity: Environmentalism has a history of champions who wrote about the importance of a clean environment and led movements to create laws and policies that protect the environment. Type Environmentalist in the Quick Search box > click GO > click More.
Students should select (or be assigned) a different author who wrote about and championed an environmental issue such as Rachel Carson and chemical pollution. Students should report a summary of their author’s major works and what impact they had on public perception that ultimately lead to new environment laws and regulations of that era. The summary should cite at least three sources and result in a report of either 250-300 words or a two-minute oral report that could include a PowerPoint presentation of 7-10 slides.
History Study Center Activity: Environmental history can be studied through the ecological approach; the study of the development of nature, with humans as just one factor in the changes in world climate, geology, vegetation, and fauna, over time. Natural disasters such as forest fires, famines, and floods can therefore be seen in the context of the environment struggling to come to terms with the accommodation of humans -- the effect on man being small or insignificant in the long term and from a wider perspective.
Click the Study Units tab > Type Environmental History > Click the Environmental History link.
Assign students to create a written report of 250-300 words or a PowerPoint presentation of two to three minutes with 7-10 slides, using at least three resources. Students’ reports should focus on two or more of the following essential questions for critical thinking. These questions help students to use information so that they understand issues from various points of view and are motivated to form reasoned opinions on a variety of environmental issues.
- What environmental issue is most important to you and why?
- What are some of the most significant historical events concerning this issue?
- What policies are presently working to support environmental protection for this issue?
- Who are some of the champions of this issue and what have they done to get public and private support?
- What recommendations do you have for new policies and laws that would be more effective in protecting the environment than what now exist?
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Can a BookCart also be a good lesson planning tool?
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Recently, ProQuest editors working together with Ana Banos (the library media teacher of Southwest High School in San Diego) developed an excellent method to add significant value to BookCarts through the use of the Description box. Now you can benefit from our joint discussions about this important lesson planning tool.
BookCarts generally have provided a unique method for collecting eLibrary articles, Editors’ Choice and teacher favorite websites, and even articles from SIRS and other ProQuest products that the school can access. But, teachers would still have to create separate student assignment instructions and librarians provide separate pathways to print resources. Separate information sources slow down the research process and many times adds confusion for most students.
When ProQuest editors worked with Ana, her goal was to get a listing of print resources (all research reports in her school require the use of at least two print resources) into the BookCart for students to see. ProQuest editors’ goal was to get Ana to include essential questions for critical thinking into the BookCart. Ana had been including these in a separate blog she created for students. Why not include all the information that students need for success in the Description box?
Presently, the Description box almost always contains a redundant phrase that refers to the BookCart title. Here is a typical example of the contents of the Description box: BookCart Title = Civil War Battles; Description = Resources for researching Civil War battles.
Activity: Here are some of the refinements that came out of the work with Ana, and how you can begin to use them to increase the effectiveness of eLibrary, BookCarts, and inquiry-based learning activities to raise student achievement, increase teacher effectiveness, and regain librarian leadership for the research process in your school.
How about adding these lesson plan elements to the Description box for this BookCart Title, World Racism and Genocide (Ana’s BookCart)?
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS FOR CRITICAL THINKING
- Do we have a responsibility to stop genocide whenever it becomes apparent?
- Can Students at Southwest High do anything to stop the current genocide in Darfur?
- Should the US military or NATO forces intervene to prevent further acts of genocide in Darfur?
- How can racism lead to Genocide?
STUDENT DIRECTIONS: Write a report of 300-350 words in school-approved format. Use at least two articles, two websites, and two print resources.
PRINT RESOURCES: 304.6; 364.151; 967.57 (Rwandan Genocide); 956.102 (Armenian Genocide); 949.7 (Serbia); 940.53 (Jewish Holocaust)
ASSESSMENT: Answer and email the quiz included in the BookCart before beginning the research report. The report will be evaluated using our school-approved rubrics model.
- Would your students better understand what to do when they opened this BookCart?
- Would your students better understand the issues on which they are to develop report reasoned conclusions?
- Would your students know what type of report to create?
- Would your students use library digital, library print, and the best website resources?
- Would both you and your students save valuable time in the research process that could be reinvested in more learning?
Find out more about our hands-on lesson planning tool today, and get ready to super-charge your summer curriculum development!
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How can American volunteers make a difference in the world?
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June is International Volunteers Month. Back in the 1960s, President Kennedy initiated the idea of volunteering to help others and support your country at the same time. In his inaugural address, on January 20, 1961, he stated: "Ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country."
The day after he became President, Kennedy ordered a task force to take the first steps in creating the Peace Corps, which has since sent more than 165,000 volunteers to help the needy in 135 countries.
Activity: In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, President George W. Bush has renewed the call to harness the idealism and energy of youth in the interest of world peace. In his State of the Union address, Bush outlined plans to double the size of the Peace Corps to 15,000 active members, and to combine it with other volunteer agencies under a new umbrella, the USA Freedom Corps.
To access Platinum learning resources for this topic:
- Use the Topic search terms “Peace Corp” and “USA Freedom Corps.”
- Click View Documents in the topic USA Freedom Corps (company/org) AND Volunteers.
- Click View Document in the topic Peace Corps (company/org) AND Volunteers.
Create and assign essential questions for critical thinking for this and all research activities. Without these questions, students really don’t know what to do with this or any other topic only assignment. So, most of the reports resulting from assignments without using essential questions, contain only factual information. Educational research indicates that this type of report and learning does little to build essential skills in reading, writing, and critical thinking. Assigning essential questions, students are guided to a variety of relevant information and can integrate their own conclusions and ideas.
Here are some examples of essential questions to assign students but should include your own as well. Answer the following Essential Questions about the Peace Corp and the USA Freedom Corps:
- How are these two volunteer groups similar?
- How are these two volunteer groups different?
- What was the driving force behind the founding of each of these volunteer groups?
- How do these two groups recruit volunteers?
- What are some examples of the successful project conducted by these volunteers?
- How effective has the experience been in preparing volunteers for future careers?
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Who won the first battle of the space race?
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The space race began in 1957 with the launching of Sputnik 1 by the Soviet Union. The world was astounded by this feat of technology and engineering in putting the first satellite into orbit around the Earth. The U.S. was embarrassed not only by the success of the Soviets but also because of its own two failures to do this with Project Vanguard.
Suddenly, the U.S. increased its efforts and investment in the space race to demonstrate its technological superiority to the world. The effort paid off in July of 1969 when Neil Armstrong and “Buzz” Aldrin reached the surface of the moon.
Sputnik was just another example of The Cold War military scientific and technological progress during the 1950s. Other major technologies developed by the U.S. and the Soviets were the hydrogen bomb and ballistic missiles that were capable of carrying these bombs from each country to the other. The space race still continues as other countries develop technology for launching rockets, but now the payloads include satellites and scientific instruments that have the potential to make life on Earth better for all.
Activity: Click the 1950’s icon > Science and the Space Race. Assign each student to select (or you can assign) a different technology topic/issue associated with this era of the Cold War.
Students should include at least three sources in their works cited. Written reports of 250-300 words are appropriate. Oral reports with PowerPoint presentations should be at least two minutes and include 7-10 slides.
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