Hubble Telescope

This activity was developed in a prototype of one of the new templates that from our new Writing Bin CD.

In the Hubble Telescope book, students are first introduced to the subject of space exploration and the problems scientists originally had in seeing clearly through the Earth's atmosphere. Students learn that the deployment of the Hubble telescope solved that problem to some degree even though there were some early setbacks.

After reading about the Hubble Telescope in the first five pages of the book, students are then given the opportunity to click a button to open a toolbar of photographs taken by the Hubble Telescope.

When the student clicks on a picture, it is automatically inserted on the page. The students are then asked to name the object they are looking at, and to describe it in the textbox provided on that page.

Please note that this activity was initially developed for a fifth grade class that was studying astronomy and space, and additional vocabulary support was purposefully omitted.

We wanted students to use their imaginations and use the vocabulary they had acquired in their studies to write about the various deep space images they were seeing.

This activity was built in Classroom Suite v. 3.2. The activity can be run on the ITAN Player. But IntelliPics Studio 3® is needed to perform data capture, automatic grading and portfolio management, as well as any editing or changes to the activity itself.