Space Flight Unit Study Resources

When I was a kid, I was fascinated by a lot (weren’t we all?) but one thing that really excited me was the idea of shooting up in a space shuttle to outer space. I was more or less facinated by the astronauts and how they lived with zero gravity as well as the food they ate, too. I distinctly remember visiting a child’s museum when I was little that included a section on space flight and they sold “astronaut ice cream” and I begged for some. I thought it was the coolest thing to be eating the same type of ice cream the astronauts ate! If you are putting together a unit study on space flight, here are some space flight unit study resources to help you out!

Space Flight Unit Study Resources

Space Flight Lesson Plan Ideas

NASA has a great resource book for grades K-12 on teaching Rocket Science. It’s a long resource book with 178 pages and it’s PDF and FREE!

BrainPOP Educators has some space flight lesson plan ideas you can use for various ages and in-depth levels.

Space Flight Lapbooks and Printables

NASA has a printable fact sheet on Space food you can use to teach about what astronauts eat and how they eat.

This worksheet from Easy Science for Kids is a word search for Space Travel. It’s a free download.

Space Flight Activities and Crafts

This Taste in Space activity by NASA includes a video, guide and more to make an experiment on tasting things in space and how astronauts eat.

Another great page from NASA’s website is this activity for middle schoolers on Creating a Space Exploration Infrastructure.

Space Flight Videos and Clips

This Future Space Travel Documentary from National Space Solar System is 50 minutes and pretty fascinating.

This Cool and Candid Look inside life aboard the International Space Station hosted by Astronaut Suni Williams is really neat to give a first hand view of life in space.

Additional Space Flight Resources

ESA has a section on their site about human space exploration with some good information.

Space.com has a section on the site that tells those interested how to become an astronaut.

This Space Exploration Timeline from DMNS has an activity attached to it but it would be a great resource for older kids to learn about what led to space exploration as well as where we have come.

Discovery Education has a page on Life in Space with a lesson plan that matches the subject.