Satellites – Understanding How They Work! MS

Written By:  Frances Dellutri, Middle School/Intermediate Level SpacEdge Education Team, April 2016

SpacEdge Topic: Atmosphere, Centripetal Force, Computers, Mathematics, Micro-gravity, Free-fall, Orbital Mechanics, Physics, Satellites, Spacecraft, Weightlessness

Grade (Age) Level:  Grades 5-8 (Ages 10-13)

Key Topics Associated with Standards: Collecting, Analyzing and Interpreting Data;  Gravitational Interactions; Forces and Motion, Relationship between Energy and Forces

Index:

• Introduction
  Announcements
• General
• 1. What do you know about gravity?
• 2. Introduction to forces and gravitational pull here on Earth!
• 3. Understanding Centripetal Force. (Contributed from Physics Classroom.)
• 4. What is Weighlessness all about, anyway! (Source: Physics Classroom)
• 5. Satellites
• 6. Understanding satellite orbits.
• 7. Exit slip – Let’s find out what you learned.
• Send a Postcard to Space!