Multimedia Learning Activity
Age:20
Website: http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/
Task I:
1. Go to the Website NASA SpacePlace: http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/. On the right side you
will see the date today. Please write down the date today.
Today is _____________.
2. Scroll and strike the item “CALENDER”
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3. You will see 12 months in a wall calendar. Enter in this month. (You will need Adobe Reader to
view and print each month. If you don’t have it, you can get it free now. Click the Adobe icon to
download Adobe Reader. )
4. Look up the calendar to see if there is something special on the date today.
Today, ________, (fill in the date) is ________________.(fill in the special event)
(If it is blank on the calendar, you may skip this question.)
Task II:
1. Go back to the main page of NASA SpacePlace.
2. Strike the item
“listen to DR. MARC!”
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3. Find the Moon category and enter in
What can you tell us about the Moon?
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4. Listen to the text carefully, and answer the following question.
Here are some tips:
(1) You may click in the button of this control bar.
Click the button
/
/
to stop/ play the voice.
to hear last/ next sentence.
to change the volume.
(2) You may enter in the link here on this passage to acquire more information.
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1. Why can it be confusing when people use the word “moon”?
Answer: _______________________________________________.
2. What cause the Moon and the Sun appear to be the same size from
Earth?
Answer:________________________________________________.
3. Please explain what “solar eclipse” is.
Answer:________________________________________________.
4. Compare the sizes of the following planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth,
Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.
Answer: Jupiter >_____>_____>_____>_____>_____>_____>_____> Pluto.
5. List two names of the moons of Jupiter.
Answer: __________and__________ are two of the moons of Jupiter.
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Task III:
1. Go back to the main page of NASA SpacePlace.
2. Strike the button “Animation”.
3. Enter in Space Place Live. Watch Space Place Live as Kate and Carlos interview NASA
scientists and engineers!
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4. Strike the icon
to watch this episode. Meet Michelle Thaller, an astronomer with NASA’s
Spitzer Space Telescope. Find out what movie and what TV show first inspired Michelle to become
an astronomer. You’ll also learn Michelle’s very favorite amazing fact about space.
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5. Strike twice on icon Low Speed / High Speed to enter in.
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Here are some tips:
(1) To view the whole text, you may strike the item Text Version.
(2) You may click in the
(3) You may click in the
(4) You may click in the
/
/
icon to show/ hide each instant line of the script.
icon to start/ stop the TV show.
/
icon to change the volume.
6. Write down True or False to the following statement after watching the show.
1). Spitzer Space Telescope is the latest of NASA’s big space-based observatories.
2). The Hubble Space Telescope can see everything there is to see out in space.
3). Scientists actually see the universe entirely in infrared light.
4). Body heat is a kind of infrared light.
5). Infrared light can be observed by human eyes.
6). Planets around other stars give off any light of their own
7). A much better way to try to detect a planet is to detect the heat signal from a distant planet
around another star.
8). Andromeda is the closest big galaxy to the Milky Way.
9). In visible light, you see the spiral arms of Andromeda go right into the center of the galaxy.
10). Michele thinks that we are so connected with space because of scientific fact that any atom
larger than hydrogen or helium has to be made inside a star, like in our body, there are carbon, iron,
and oxygen, which were made inside the belly of a giant star that died long ago and exploded.
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