Weather to Fly By

Issued by Texas State University Continuing Education

The focus of this badge is an activity is from NASA’s Museum in a Box program on Weather and Flying. The Museum in a Box program brings the physical sciences of flight alive to students in grades K-12 using interactive activities. Each lesson is centered around aeronautics with a goal to inspire future scientist, mathematicians and engineers. Estimated Time to Complete 4 hours.

Type Learning
Level Foundational
Time Hours
Cost Free

Additional Details

Skills

Earning Criteria

(1) Learn about NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate and its unique instructional resources. (2) Explore the Weather to Fly By activity from the Museum in a Box activities. (3) Explore hands-on instructional activities for any grade level that utilizes NASA’s Museum in a Box program, specifically to learn about how weather and flying.

Standards

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)

PS2.A (Forces and Motion); PS2.B (Types of Interactions); PS2.C (Relationship between Energy and Forces); PS3.A (Definitions of Energy); ETS1.A (Defining Engineering Problems); ETS1.C (Optimizing the Design Solution).