NASA for kids (ch 7)

NASA for kids

Goal:

As everybody knows, NASA is The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, responsible for the nation's public space program.

This NASA's public Web Portal offers users with multiple paths to information. And of course, NASA sets up a specific section for kids with access to thousands of resources. It can be educational, entertaining, and appropriate for children.

Presentation:

It is very complete with introduction, guideline for parents, teachers, and children, links to other related websites. As to the main content, there are “Games,” “Art & Stories,” “Activities,” “Kid’s club.”

“Games” surely attract kids’ attention. From this, kids can learn something about astrology knowledge by playing those interesting games. “

Art & Stories” provides pictures or drawings with different topics, which can give kids the visual enjoyment.

“Activities” teaches several simple experiments for kids to do it on their own. “Kid’s club” offers five levels to play some games or testing, which can evaluate their learning from this website.

Besides, this website includes some cool stuff for kids to adventure, like video showing, or Q and A. there are even some news for kids to update their cognition about NASA or astrology.

Appropriateness:

I think each of the section is appropriate for any kid to experience the astrology adventure. Kids can see the news, play the games, accomplish some experiments, and have several evaluation tests according to the level. This website facilitates kids to understand something seemed difficult to them. And it is complete enough to give kids a whole learning to a specific subject.


Outcomes:
I believe that it is quite useful for teachers or parents to let the kids learn something. Therefore, this website can offer the content-based learning with a wonderful content. It will be perfect if it is used to help the science class.

Evaluation:

In the part of “Kid’s club,” there are several tests or games for kids to evaluate themselves. The topic and the level are different. There are just simple words like “correct” or “try again” to remind or mark the performance. But I think it’s enough for kids.

Notes:

I really like this website for its beautiful format and design and its wonderful and complete content. By experiencing it, kids not only learn to gain more understanding about the subject, but also polish their language ability at the same time.