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Galileo K-12 Educational Activities
Middle School
New Galileo Activity
Guide! Here you will find a new batch of activities for
your students to try. These activities incorporate some of the Galileo
resources found in these pages.
Activities Using Galileo Images
Design
a Spacecraft to Test for Life on Europa
When
Will the Probe Get Squashed? allowed students to make educated guesses
about how long Galileo's atmospheric probe would last
Mnemonic
Moons helps students learn about the names of Jupiter's moons
Curriculum Module Volume 1 (18 pages, 17-34K apiece)
The Curriculum Module is also available as a Acrobat
file (557K).
- Page 1: Intro, crossword puzzle
- Page 2: Jupiter quiz
- Page 3: Planet Size Comparison
Exercise
- Page 4:Planet Structure, Relative
and Absolute spin
- Page 5: Jupiter's 'Monstrous'
Magnetosphere
- Page 6: Catch a (light) wave
- Page 7: What does the spacecraft
look like?
- Page 8: Engineering Instruments,
using thrusters
- Page 9: Jupiter's Weather Forecast
- Page 10: Moons of Jupiter exercise
- Page 11: Moons of Jupiter,
gravity assist
- Page 12: Data Compression Exercise
- Page 13: Data Compression Exercise
- Page 14: Hearing Galileo's
Whisper, bibliography
- Page 15: Answer key
- Page 16: Answer key
- Page 17: Answer key
- Page 18: Answer key
Integrating Galileo Resources into Your
Classroom gives some ideas for classroom activities that use some of
those resources.
Curriculum Module Supplement: The Jovian
System: A Scale Model
Teacher Contributions
We're not the only ones thinking about how to incorporate Galileo into
the schoolroom! Here are some ways in which various teachers have utilized
Galileo in their classrooms:
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