Audience
Educators
Grade Levels
Grades 5-8
Subject
Careers, Waves, Sound
Type
Lesson Plans / Activities, Videos
NASA Role Model: Michelle Jones
NASA Center: Goddard Space Flight Center
Topic: Be Your Own Best Advocate
Original Air Date: Aug. 4, 2021
Watch Michelle Jones, the communications director at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, talk about her journey to NASA. She discusses her leadership style and how to be a good leader, and she gives great advice to students.
STEM Activity: Sound on a String
Objective: To determine the best method to transmit sound on a string-cup phone.
Duration: Five days, 30 minutes each day
Materials Needed: Multiple types of string, multiple pairs of various types of disposable cups, buttons, paper clips, metal washers, toothpicks, glue, nail, chart paper, crayons
Difficulty: Easy
Next Generation Science Standards: 1-PS4-1, 1-PS4-4
Common Core Math Standards: 1.MD.C.4
“NASA STEM Stars” is a webchat series. Each chat introduces a science, technology, engineering or math career, addresses a STEM topic and highlights a NASA mission. The chat includes a STEM activity that students can do at home. After the interviews, experts answer students’ questions.