So many what-if scenarios come to light: What if the Soviets' moon program had worked? What if Buran had not been canceled? If the USSR hadn't disintegrated, would the race still be going?

I've visited the guest portal twice with my children and they love it! Being able to choose what they want to observe and the correct exposure allows them to feel that they are actually controlling the telescope. Very fun, quick and easy to use. The most difficult part is waiting for the image. :)

The aircraft featured are different, not the typical fare. Students and teachers will find this useful and interesting. I would use it every time I visit!

Great online introduction for students to use on learning about GPS technology, could be a great resource to utilize on a internet scavenger hunt or a web quest.

GPS: A New Constellation provides a very good introduction to the GPS system. It does a good job of explaining the need for GPS, a basic explanation of how the system works and its applications. The language is non-technical and this would make it easier for the general population to understand.

I can't wait to use these when we get back into Space again! The pics pop! The colors will hold the kids attention and the info is so much better than just a plain old text book! Thank you!

I am going to use this resource to give my students a better understanding of the goals and challenges of the Apollo missions to the Moon. This will be used in our celebration of the 50th anniversary of NASA.

I found this site to add something to our study of space. It was interesting to look at after seeing the movie "Fly Me to the Moon" and "Apollo 13."

I am anxious to do this again with my students. With budget restraints and being several hundred miles away this was a awesome way of taking my student there without the cost or headache.

This is such a great opportunity! Imagine your students being able to have a tour of this wonderful museum, right from their classroom.

I was able to visit this museum as a child and it made a lasting impression on me.

What an amazing tool to use when teaching about space and planets. My kids loved and I mean LOVED all of the great pictures. It was amazing to see them “ooohh” and “aahhh” and say “come look, you have to see this one” to get them so enthusiastic about learning is such a wonderful thing. Thank you Smithsonian for all of the wonderful resources you’ve made available to us! It allows us to teach our kids in such a way that brings the subject alive and it makes learning fun. Thank you. In case you couldn’t tell I highly recommend this to enhance their learning of planets and space.

This resource is great! I have taken my class to the Air and Space Museum and we participated in this tour and he kids LOVED it! I have used some of the related resources with my 6th graders before we went on the field trip and they are really helpful. These resources are particularly good because you can modify them to match what you are doing with your class (no matter the grade).

In playing the game, the questioner asked for an address. I found this very confusing, and so would a student. Our students are very literal and would think you were asking them for their personal address. We always tell students to NOT put their address on the computer as a safety violation. You need to consider some other form of question for that particular game.

Comprehensive and fun to explore, this site has information that even got a second grader naturally memorizing advanced space science vocabulary and concepts. I love the depth here and that it goes for all grade levels by drawing the student in. I do wish that the interactive games in the activities section would work though.

I liked the way in which the website separates all major topics into different pages and supplements the facts with images to make learning and understanding easy. The comparison of planets has been done in a way that a student can understand the subtle differences between the planets which make them different from the earth we live in.

This is a very educational site, very impressive. I believe it is very important for everyone no matter what their age to know about the planet we live on as well as those that surround us, There is a lot we can learn from them.

My kids and I loved this sight. We homeschool and are learning about the Wright Brothers. We followed this site to the Wright Brothers page, saw a timeline of flying, learned about planes. My daughter wants to go to the Smithsonian now. Great site we will visit again.

The How Things Fly website is a good resource for teachers and advanced students interested in learning more about the principles of flight. I teach first grade and I can imagine guiding my class through the website or allowing more advanced students with an interest in flight to navigate the site on their own. The website also informed me that the Air and Space Museum does have a demonstration center for field trips that would provide students with an experience to support the first grade standard of observing and explaining how the motion of objects can be measured and changed.

Love this site.

Though this poster is designed to go along with a visit to the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, it has activities that can be used in the classroom to teach the laws of flight. All of the activities only use simple and cheap materials that you have in the classroom. Can be easily incorporated into a unit on motion into a one or two day investigation on flight.

I used this in my classroom as a way to introduce how flight works. It was a great resource. It started out very simple using simple examples and simple experiments and then built upon the simple to the more complex. The drawings were very cute.

These images can be used to motivate students to learn math & science in conjunction with art and technology.

Quick reference is easy to read and understand. It lets us know exactly where in the exhibit to find info. Although I am not often able to visit the exhibit, the guides will allow my students the chance to get ideas for deeper research. Easy to use and understand.

Embracing the Impossible is an appropriate topic for today's kids. They are embracing new technology while many adults are still afraid of it. This lesson plan looks at primary sources relating to the dawn of the aviation era to determine what popular views the public held on that new technology. Students then compare those views to views people currently hold about computers. The lesson is a solid lesson that asks students to recreate a primary source as a final project substituting a piece of modern technology for the airplane. An easy to use worksheet accompanies this lesson that gives students clear guidlines on how to interpret the different source materials. The main criticism of this lesson plan is the variety of primary sources. While they vary in type, all but one are interpreted by students as being positive. A few more sources that highlighted the fears of the time period would have been helpful, especially when it came to comparing the attitudes of today with yesterday.

Measurement via Triangulation is a great lesson that not only shows practical application but it reviews one of the low performing skills, measurement.

After going through a trig section with my geometry students, this activity provided great insight on how we can use trig outside of pure theory.

I used this activity with my 5th graders after studying the area of triangles. I was a great extension and a nice application to give them a real world experience.

I really enjoyed teaching with this resource. It is informative and colorful, illustrating how fascinating and foreign space is, and just how much there is to explore. At the same time, it isn't too much for the kids to grasp, and isn't condescending either, but makes them want to learn more on the subject.

This is a great guide that is useful even if you don't go to the museum. The photographs and illustrations make this a resource that even emerging readers can use. I like the way it demonstrates the size difference between the Apollo space rockets and the Shuttle.

We visited the Ar and Space Museum this past spring. This was a great follow-up resource to our visit. The pictures of the old brochures and of the airlines dining and sleeping areas were interesting. How very informative! Thank you for making this information available.

Pretty good resource. I will use this for my students.

Very informative

I used this as a supplemental resource for geology merit badge at Boy Scout Camp. The boys learned about the different types of rocks and formations and when we had extra time, we used this resource. It was a lot of fun for the boys. They competed to see who could get the most correct in the different challenges. They were amazed that they could recognize so many places from Space. I will use this again during the school year as an additional resource for my geography class.

Students who enjoy using language (and a computer) to fill-in the missing vocabulary word will enjoy this.A couple of possible concerns: In paragraph 1 asking the question what shape? (is the correct answer provided in the word bank?) This is the only
problem I missed, but I didn't recognize an alternative answer. Paragraph 4, line 2. I think there is a typo. I think you meant oceans.

This was busywork for my kids. I guess we don't enjoy fill in the blank exercises.