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

EIS 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)

Written by: Frances Dellutri, Jr. High / Intermediate Level SpacEdge Education Team and Lynne Zielinski, Manager of EIS Education
Topic: Art, Astronomy
Grade Levels: Grades 5-8

Application:  STEAM: Science, Technology, the Arts and Math
Classroom grade level appropriate:  5-8
Contributors:  Janet Ivey and Frances Dellutri, and Dr. Kathy Schmidt

The Gyroscopes lesson gives an introduction to gyroscopes, their history and importance. The lesson contains information about the place of gyroscopes in rocketry and provides activities to understand how a gyroscope works.

Written By: Frances Dellutri, Middle School/Intermediate Level EIS Education Team, April 2016
Grade Level: Grades 5-8
This project will acquaint you with the forces that affect satellites, weightlessness, and the types of satellite orbits.