2 Years of S.T.E.A.M. for Your Classroom!: 93 Hands-On Aerospace Activities in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Math for Middle-school Science Teachers!

Spark Curiosity & Creativity with 329-page Hands-On S.T.E.A.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) Activities for Middle School Students! A “Tip-of-the-Iceberg” Resource for Teachers with 93+ Hands-On Student Activities! See Table of Contents. Aligned with all 3 dimensions (Disciplinary Core Ideas, Science and Engineering Best Practices and Crosscutting Concepts) of Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS): Physical Sciences (MS-PS) Earth and Space Sciences (MS-ESS) Engineering, Technology, Applications of Science (MS-ETS) Life Science (MS-LS) ADAPTABLE FOR ALL GRADE LEVELS and INDIVIDUAL & GROUP LEARNING! Web Links to Acquire FREE, LOW COST & Easily Accessible Materials: SOME of the Experiential Learning Activities Include: Modulating a LASER-Beam to Send Music Across the Classroom or Gym! Powering a $5 Ultrasonic Ranging Circuit using Distance = Rate x Time formula! Building a $4 Morse Code Device to Send & Decode Messages between Students! Coding a $6 Arduino Circuit Card to Blink an LED! Competing, Designing & Launching a Scale Model SpaceX Starship with a Paperclip Payload! Replicating Mark Watney’s (“The Martian” movie) Hexadecimal / ASCII Communications with Earth! 3-D Printing a Scale Model PLA Lunar House Using an $8 3-D Printing Pen! Causing Minerals to Fluoresce and emit Vibrant Visible Light under UV light due to Atomic Electron Orbital Transitions—leading to discussions of Periodic Table, Atoms, the Elements! Visually Mapping the International Altitude Where Space Begins using a 2-D Map and some Coins! Demonstrating Life Sciences “Persistence of Vision” of the Human Eye with a spinning LED Clock—students make their own paper demonstration! Pressurizing The World’s Cheapest ($20) Space Suit while Showing Real Suit Components ($12 Million) Needed to Live in Space—one lucky student wears the suit! Calculating the Diameter of the Sun using a Student-Built Pin-Hole Camera! Holding REAL MOON ROCKS (3.5 Billion-Year-Old—on FREE 2-week Loan From NASA) for your Classroom!—Meteorite Samples Too! Receiving 30 FREE Space Mission Patches for your classroom and Students Design Their Own—over 850 teachers in 24 countries have received FREE mission patches already! Launching Indoor-Safe Perrigo Rockets to Demonstrate Newton’s 3rd Law! Hiking a 1:10 Billion Scale Solar System!—You’ll need a Large Field! Creating Unique Soap-Bubble-Paint Solar Artwork and Revealing Hidden Features using UV Light—highly artistic activity! Measuring Plasma Radio Waves using a Radio, Smart Phone, CFL Bulb! Experimenting with Plant Growth using purchased Simulated Lunar & Mars Soil! Requesting Samples of REAL SPACE SUIT MATERIAL LAYERS for you to keep for educational lessons in your classroom! Creating a Dry-Ice Comet with a Tail—Literally Very Cool (-78.5C or -109.2F)! Duplicating Sir William Herschel’s Discovery of IR Light with a Prism & Digital Thermometers—prism, 2 low-cost thermometers, copy paper box and sunshine! Visiting & Climbing into the Cockpit of a Small Plane at your Local General Aviation Airport!—local flight instructors explain parts of a plane! Hosting a Fly-Off Competition with 49 Paper Airplane Designs! Understanding 32 Examples of The Scientific Method in our World! Brought to you by Kevin M. Caruso… Electrical Engineer, FAA-Licensed Private Pilot, 29-Year NASA Aerospace Education Volunteer, former 9-year NASA JPL Solar System Ambassador, 10-Year Guest Presenter in Hawaii’s “Journey Through The Universe” Informal STEAM Educator.