Audience
Educators, Students
Grade Levels
Grades 5-8, Grades 9-12, Informal Education
Subject
Careers, Technology, Space Station
Type
Hands-on Activities, Videos
NASA Role Model: Anne Garber
NASA Center: Marshall Space Flight Center
Topic: ISS Celebration
Original Air Date: March 10, 2021
Join us as we learn about 20 years of the space station with Anne Garber from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
STEM Short Activity: International Space Station Robotic Arm
Objective: Students will learn how an engineer designs a mechanism (simple machine) to enable the station’s robotic arm to grapple a spacecraft.
Duration: 30 minutes – One hour
Materials Needed: Two foam coffee cups, three pieces of string (12 cm), one lollipop, tape, scissors
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Next Generation Science Standards: MS-ETS1-1, MS-ETS 1-2, MS-ETS 1-3
“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.