Wednesday, August 15, 2012

NASA website

Have you ever wondered who first thought of going into space or who figured out how to get us there? The main home page for NASA is www.nasa.gov. Maybe you can find some answers there, along with current news about the landing of Curiosity on Mars.


You can also access a section made just for 5-8 graders with a lot of cool info and games. You can test your "programming" skill on a game called Rover. To play, you designate all of the moves the Rover will have to make to reach a certain square on a board and then hit Execute. The Rover then moves according to your instructions and you find out if they work. Level 1 is easy, but I already failed on Level 2 the first time I tried. You have to maneuver around rocks, etc., on the board. Maybe you can do better - you'll have to think ahead!