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The document summarizes several activities about space exploration, including: 1) India's plans to become a space superpower by 2022 and criticisms of their efforts. 2) Details about the International Space Station, including its launch date, crew size, and partner nations. 3) Learning vocabulary words related to space exploration and key figures like Yuri Gagarin and Neil Armstrong. 4) A video about SpaceX and its founder Elon Musk's goals of making access to space more affordable and helping humanity become multiplanetary.

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025 - Space Webquest Doc Élève

The document summarizes several activities about space exploration, including: 1) India's plans to become a space superpower by 2022 and criticisms of their efforts. 2) Details about the International Space Station, including its launch date, crew size, and partner nations. 3) Learning vocabulary words related to space exploration and key figures like Yuri Gagarin and Neil Armstrong. 4) A video about SpaceX and its founder Elon Musk's goals of making access to space more affordable and helping humanity become multiplanetary.

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WEBQUEST - EXPLORE SPACE EXPLORATION

Activity n°1: "BBC - Is India a space superpower?"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3vbsKci7kc&t=2s
1) What is India planning to do by 2022? 2) Explain the reasons for taking part in space
exploration. (give details and figures)

3) Why has it been criticized? What's your 4) Explain their point of view on Indian Space
opinion on this criticism? exploration.
Ø Vivel Dehejia
Ø Susmita Mohanty

Activity n°2 : NASA website - ISS https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/nasa-


knows/what-is-the-iss-58.html (CE)

1) What is the ISS ? When was it launched? 2) When did the first crew arrive? How many
Rephrase using your own words. people compose a crew?

3) When was the ISS completed? Name a few 4) Why is it important. Give two reasons and
nations that took part in the ISS. rephrase using your own words.

Activity n°3 : Now, Browse the NASA website to find the following words (CE)
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/index.html
1
HORIZONTAL VERTICAL
2. Name of the astronaut who spent 340 days in 1. The ISS has been continually occupied since
space on one mission. ____________ 2000.
4. Name of the NASA record holder for most days 3. Name of the last French astronaut sent to the
spent in space. ISS.
7. in 24 hours, the ISS makes 16 ________ of 5. Principal ISS partners: U.S., Europe, Japan,
Earth. Canada and ______________ .
8. Most ISS visitors are from this country. 6. the ISS is the size of a _____________ field
9. The ISS travels 5 miles in one
________________ .

Activity n°4: Vocabulary learning


Click on the following link and complete the 4 vocabulary activities.
https://view.genial.ly/5e6d08b645bfe40fc0fc3885/presentation-chap-d-to-infinity-and-beyond-
lelivrescolairefr

YURI GAGARIN NEIL ARMSTRONG


Who was he? Who was he?

Try to write with the phonemic alphabet the


following words. Be ready to pronounce them
1. in front of the class !
1. democratize

2. stimulate growth

2. 3. manned mission

2
4. extraterrestrial
resources

5. species
3.
6. space suit

7. shuttle

8. beneficial
4.
9. exploration
devices

5.

JESSICA MEIR

Who is she?

1) Which country is entering the Space Race as a "low-cost space superpower?"


2) What are the dates of the two main Space Acts?
3) What is the ISS?
4) "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" Who does this quote belong to?

Activity n°5: "SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on the next giant leap for mankind" (CO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPrb50ZDphc&t=214s

1) What is Space X about to do this week (July 2019)?

2) What is it honoring?

3) Who is the founder of Space X? Where does he come from? How old is he at the time of the
interview?

6) What does Space X stand for? What is Space X? When was it created?

7) What is Space X delivering to the ISS?

8) What is Falcon Heavy? What is specific about its launching?

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9) What is Space X the first company to do?

10) What does "rapid reusability" mean? What is Musk hoping to do?

11) What has Jeff Bezos founded? What is his hope?

12) What does Musk want to do?

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