What is Google Drive?

CONFESSION TIME! 

I am not tech savvy and am usually the last to jump on board the latest technology craze. I learned about Google Drive two years ago when my 8 year old daughter came home needing to access her Google Drive account so she could complete her homework. Not to be rendered technologically obsolete by an 8 year old, I opened a gmail account and began to delve into Google Drive. Now, I use it all the time! Now, my goal is to help my husband, who is a Luddite at heart, start using Google Drive to reduce massive amount of paperwork that swamps him as a high school history teacher.

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Space Race Timeline

Click on the links to learn about each event.

 

1957

Soviets launch Sputnik I.

January 1958

Explorer, the 1st U.S. satellite is launched.

October 1958

NASA is established. 

January 1961

NASA engineers test space capsule using chimpanzees.

April 1961

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person to orbit Earth. 

May 5, 1961

Alan Shepard, Jr. becomes the first American to fly into space. 

May 25, 1961

President Kennedy commits to the goal of landing a man on the moon.

1962

John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit Earth.

1963

Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first women to fly in space. 

1967

Fire in Apollo 1 capsule kills astronauts Roger Chaffee, Gus Grisson, and Edward White.

1968

Apollo 8 orbits the moon.

1969

Apollo 11 lands Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon.

1970

A successful failure: Apollo 13

1975

Soviet and American space crafts successfully dock in space during the Apollo-Soyuz mission.

1981

First U.S. mission using the space shuttle. 

1983

Sally Ride becomes the first American woman to fly in space. 

1986

Challenger explodes.

1990

U.S. launches the Hubble Space Telescope.

2003

Columbia disintegrates upon re-entry.

Today

Beyond the Moon and More

*These links are specifically for my Space Race Task Cards, but feel free to check out the awesome sites above if you just want to learn more about the Space Race and the history of the U.S. in space! If you want your own print-and-go Race to Space task cards for 5th - 8th graders, click on the image below to be taken to my Teachers Pay Teachers store.

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