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Lesson Plan 6: How can we use the patterns in motion we observed to explain how the JWST was launched into space?
Sponsor: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and Estes Education
Science and Eng. Practices
Disciplinary Core Ideas
Crosscutting Concepts
Building Towards
 
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Lesson Plan 5: How can we use what we know about weight and thrust to plan a safe and successful model rocket launch?
Sponsor: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and Estes Education
Science and Eng. Practices
Disciplinary Core Ideas
Crosscutting Concepts
Building Towards
 
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Lesson Plan 4: How do you launch a heavy object like the rocket carrying the JWST?
Sponsor: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and Estes Education
Science and Eng. Practices
Disciplinary Core Ideas
Crosscutting Concepts
Building Towards
 
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Lesson Plan 3: How does something start moving?
Sponsor: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and Estes Education
Science and Eng. Practices
Disciplinary Core Ideas
Crosscutting Concepts
Building Towards
 
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Lesson Plan 2: How does gravity affect objects?
Sponsor: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and Estes Education
Science and Eng. Practices
Disciplinary Core Ideas
Crosscutting Concepts
Building Towards
 
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Lesson Plan 1: How did they get the James Webb Space Telescope into space?
Sponsor: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and Estes Education
Science and Eng. Practices
Disciplinary Core Ideas
Crosscutting Concepts
Building Towards
 
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Storyline unit
Launching the James Webb Space Telescope Unit
Sponsor: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and Estes Education
Science and Eng. Practices
Disciplinary Core Ideas
Crosscutting Concepts
Building Towards