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NASA at Home: activities for children home from school

102 points by laurex 7y ago

zihotki 7y ago
It's an article which briefly describes what NASA provides. THe actual activities are here - https://www.nasa.gov/specials/nasaathome/index.html https://www.nasa.gov/specials/nasaathome/index.html
- dang 7y ago
  We've changed the URL to that from https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/coronavirus/nasa-offers-tons-of-at-home-activities-for-children-home-from-school https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/coronavirus/nasa-offer.... Thanks!
linsomniac 7y ago
I've been having my HS-aged daughter watching the Mark Rober "science class" videos (M/W/F at 1pm Pacific), and then using Google Classroom to ask her questions. She's the one that suggested using Classroom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPn-Bay_ANU&t=165s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPn-Bay_ANU&t=165s
tectonic 7y ago
Yes! We highlighted these in yesterday's Orbital Index (http://orbitalindex.com/archive/2020-03-31-Issue-58/ http://orbitalindex.com/archive/2020-03-31-Issue-58/). See also NASA's free history e-book collection: https://history.nasa.gov/books_sort_SP.html https://history.nasa.gov/books_sort_SP.html NASA at Home also highlights citizen science opportunities, such as learning to process raw JunoCam images of Jupiter. Here's an interview with Kevin Gill about this: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/21/world/modern-explorers-junocam-nasa-photography-intl-scn/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/21/world/modern-explorers-ju...
DoreenMichele 7y ago
When I homeschooled, I did a survey of all books, TV shows, software and even games that my kids had access to and rated which ones I felt were educational and what subject I felt they counted for. If they were doing any of those things for any reason, I wrote it down and counted it as educational. If you find yourself homeschooling your kids, you don't have to spend all day trying to teach them. Set up a spread sheet with the days of the week listed and the subjects you are teaching (math, grammar, history, etc) and fill in what the kid did that day that would count for that subject. I was flexible with my kids and if they spent four hours straight one day doing stuff that I felt counted as history, I wrote down one hour per day for four days of that week. I found an online listing for grade level competencies for my state and went through them every six months. Once my kids were good enough in an area (exceeded grade level requirements), they got to do enrichment for that subject instead of assigned work. Homeschooling does not have to be a nightmare. Especially these days, there is lots of wonderful material readily available, much of which is highly engaging so the kids are actually interested. Nasa is, of course, almost always an excellent resource.

102 points by laurex 7y ago

It's an article which briefly describes what NASA provides. THe actual activities are here - https://www.nasa.gov/specials/nasaathome/index.html https://www.nasa.gov/specials/nasaathome/index.html

dang 7y ago
We've changed the URL to that from https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/coronavirus/nasa-offers-tons-of-at-home-activities-for-children-home-from-school https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/coronavirus/nasa-offer.... Thanks!

linsomniac 7y ago

I've been having my HS-aged daughter watching the Mark Rober "science class" videos (M/W/F at 1pm Pacific), and then using Google Classroom to ask her questions. She's the one that suggested using Classroom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPn-Bay_ANU&t=165s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPn-Bay_ANU&t=165s

tectonic 7y ago

Yes! We highlighted these in yesterday's Orbital Index (http://orbitalindex.com/archive/2020-03-31-Issue-58/ http://orbitalindex.com/archive/2020-03-31-Issue-58/). See also NASA's free history e-book collection: https://history.nasa.gov/books_sort_SP.html https://history.nasa.gov/books_sort_SP.html NASA at Home also highlights citizen science opportunities, such as learning to process raw JunoCam images of Jupiter. Here's an interview with Kevin Gill about this: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/21/world/modern-explorers-junocam-nasa-photography-intl-scn/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/21/world/modern-explorers-ju...

DoreenMichele 7y ago

When I homeschooled, I did a survey of all books, TV shows, software and even games that my kids had access to and rated which ones I felt were educational and what subject I felt they counted for. If they were doing any of those things for any reason, I wrote it down and counted it as educational. If you find yourself homeschooling your kids, you don't have to spend all day trying to teach them. Set up a spread sheet with the days of the week listed and the subjects you are teaching (math, grammar, history, etc) and fill in what the kid did that day that would count for that subject. I was flexible with my kids and if they spent four hours straight one day doing stuff that I felt counted as history, I wrote down one hour per day for four days of that week. I found an online listing for grade level competencies for my state and went through them every six months. Once my kids were good enough in an area (exceeded grade level requirements), they got to do enrichment for that subject instead of assigned work. Homeschooling does not have to be a nightmare. Especially these days, there is lots of wonderful material readily available, much of which is highly engaging so the kids are actually interested. Nasa is, of course, almost always an excellent resource.