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National Park Service: America's Space Program Exploring a New Frontier Lesson PlanNational Park Service: America's Space Program Exploring a New Frontier Lesson Plan
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9th - 10th
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National Park Service: America's Space Program Exploring a New Frontier

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This site includes a lesson for teachers to use when teaching about America's space program. Also included is the history of the space program, maps, readings, images of the space program, and benefits that resulted from space research.

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Concepts

space exploration, nasa, apollo 11

Additional Tags

first manned space flight, lunar program, manned space flights, manned spacecraft mission, missile gap, space flights, space race, space technology, cold war, alan shepard, apollo project, kennedy space center, kennedy administration, kennedy domestic agenda, kennedy domestic program, nps, national aeronautics and space administration, national park service, president john f. kennedy, project apollo, project gemini, project mercury, satrun v, us national parks, united states space installations, benefits of space research, development of space systems, space program

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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