Adventures in Time and Place

Adventures in Time and Place
Grade 5: United States
Infographic #10: The United States Explores Outer Space
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1. As a space engineer, you might work to improve the design of space telescopes. Find out why putting a telescope in orbit above Earth was a major design improvement. This Web site will tell you about the history and development of the Hubble Telescope. Go to Star Child: The Hubble Space Telescope.
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/space_level2/hubble.html

Read the page. Take notes about what happened on significant dates.
Click highlighted words for definitions and additional images or information.

Online Activity: A Little Bit of Hubble History
Use the information at the Web site to create a time line. Type your notes below. For each date, tell what happened in the development of the Hubble Telescope. Later, you can print and use your notes to draw and label a time line.

2. Now see some spectacular pictures! Go to Hubble Space Telescope Public Pictures.
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pictures.html

Click Latest Release. Read the press releases and view the photos.
Select and write about one discovery made using the Hubble Telescope.

Offline Activity: Science News
Write a news article about the Hubble Telescope. Include your thoughts about an important discovery. Be sure to mention the historical background of the telescope in your report. You may want to use the time line from the online activity to illustrate your news story.