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This webquest attempts to cover the space exploration requirement
from page 4 of the QCA scheme of work for unit 9J - Gravity and space.
Perhaps the 2 lessons I set aside is a lot for such a small part of the syllabus but it certainly engages the pupils - I have not had to veto many Britney Spears or mobile phone sites during this work!
I follow
up the internet work by asking the pupils to produce a magazine article or information
leaflet in order to assess their learning. Eventually, I will sort out the navigation
buttons on the Mission 1 home page so that the 'Nine Planets' site opens in
a new browser window, sorry about that glitch.
Mission 1 questions:
a - Ulysses is studying the poles of the Sun and was launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery (in1990)
b - Launched on 1996 (February 17) to study the asteroid Eros
c - Muses-C, leaving behind a small 'rover' to explore the surface of the asteroid and the launch should take place this year (2002)
Selected answers to Mission 3 questions:
Note: To focus the pupils, most of the questions are linked to sites that give the answers directly. Hopefully, differentiation is achieved by giving some questions without a hyperlink so that they have to find the information for themselves.
3 - Most pupils will pick up on Pioneer 10 (Jupiter) and 11 (Jupiter and Saturn), since these occur nearer to the start of the page. The better answer will come from those who explore the page further. A more appropriate answer is Voyager 1 and 2 since these went on to explore Uranus and Neptune as well i.e. all but Pluto were visited by these two craft.
5 - Some of the pupils require help with the site, they do not realise that parts of the graphic are hotspots that enter the site. It is not immediately clear to them which of the Apollo craft landed. When trying to find out about the actual Moon walkers, they need to click on the 'crew' hyperlink.
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© K Woodward
Jan 2002