Posted by Laurie Sullivan at 12/19/2009 7:00:00 AM

Friday was Holiday Hair Fun Day at Barrett This week second grade students learned about the physical characteristics of the moon and moon exploration past, present, and future. We used books, a 3,2,1 Journal, and the computers to assist our learning. Some of our future NASA Explorer School lessons include a videoconferences with Wall-E at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and Dryden Flight Research Center, located on Edwards Air Force Base by the Mojave Desert in California. We will also be designing a moon base to withstand a “moon quake” and participating in a hands-on lesson led by Rudo Kashiri from NASA Langley in the Discovery Lab.

Click here to see photos of all five 2nd Grade classes Water on the Moon Music Videohttp://lcross.arc.nasa.gov/impactkit/downloads/2-Impact/marmie_song_720.mov BrainPop Jr.http://www.brainpopjr.com/ BrainPophttp://www.brainpop.com Why do we only see one side of the moon?http://brainbites.nasa.gov/#/one-side-of-moon Can you catch big air on the moon?http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/brainbites/nonflash/bb_home_aerial.html Explore the Moon Virtually (NOVA)http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tothemoon/explore.html Google Moonhttp://www.google.com/moon/ Apollo to the Moonhttp://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/07/13/science/20090714-apollo11-interactive.html?th&emc=th LRO and LCROSS to the Moonhttp://lcross.arc.nasa.gov/impactkit/downloads/2-Impact/LRO_LCROSS.mov