Table of Contents

Phase 1 - Liftoff

Toolkit

Students access the Toolkit for the Math Mentor tutorials, the Math Challenge quiz, or Exploration activities.

A. Math Mentor

• Students have access to interactive tutorials on:

  • Introduction to Angles
  • Measuring Angles

B. Math Challenge

• The quiz for Phase 1 presents five questions. Students use an on-screen protractor to measure angles. They enter their answers on screen; the computer marks the questions and produces a score.

C. Exploration

• The experiments/activities are:

  • Junior Space Explorer Challenge #1
  • Which Launch Is Successful?
  • Request for Data
  • The Importance of Accuracy

These can be printed directly from the Exploration section of the interactive resource.

In the Educator’s Guide there are Teacher’s Notes for each experiment/activity. In some cases, an assessment instrument for a particular activity is also included.