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Episodes

Festival of Flight Special:
Opening Space for Next Generation Explorers

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Books, Pamphlets, and Periodicals

Banks, Michael; Second Stage: Advanced Rocketry; Kalmbach Publishers, 1998.

Freeman, Marsha; How We Got to the Moon: The Story of the German Space Pioneers; 21st Century Science, 1994.

Hutchings, Robert; Rockets; Dover Books, 2002

Nielson, Lee and Nielson, Lianna; Blast Off: Rocketry for the Elementary and Middle School Student; Teacher Ideas, 1997.

Richardson, Hazel; How to Build a Rocket; Franklin Watts, Inc., 2001.

Stine, G. Harry; Handbook of Model Rocketry; John Wiley & Sons, 1994.

Videos

3 - 2 - 1 Lift Off: Basic Model Rocketry

Web Sites

http://www.physics4kids.com
http://www.nasaexplores.com/lessons/03-015/index.html
http://www.nasaexplorers.com/lessons/01-047/5-8_index.html
http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov/Rockets/

Figure This!
Offers mathematics Challenges that middle school students can do at home with their families to emphasize the importance of a high-quality mathematics education for all.
http://www.figurethis.org

Engineer Girl
Part of the National Academy of Engineering's Celebration of Women in the Engineering project.  The project brings national attention to the opportunity that engineering represents to people of all ages, but particularly to women and girls.
http://www/engineergirl.org

National Council Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
http://www.nctm.org


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