Land on the Moon 50 Years Later
July 20, 2019, marks the 50th anniversary of astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin landing on the moon. Celebrate the achievement with a group reenactment of Apollo 11 landing, reprinted from 2012 blog post Kids Land on the Moon:
For an activity at a fifth-grade camp, kids simulate the landing of Apollo 11 on the moon. A pair of kids on a horizontal step ladder are carried by parents over a human "boulder field" to the surface of the moon, onto which they walk and raise a flag. As they step through excerpts of the NASA audio recording, we analyze the implications of the various alarms, mission control statements, and emerging situations.
![Apollo 11 descends to landing site](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4c0e6f_0b485b8e62794ae782d61c38b11d5f3c~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_125,h_95,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,blur_2,enc_auto/4c0e6f_0b485b8e62794ae782d61c38b11d5f3c~mv2.jpg)
Watch the last four minutes until landing with lunar lander camera footage paired with LRO images.
Resources for the activity Kids Land on the Moon:
Student Script
Apollo11landing-tricolor_script.pdf Text from excerpts of Apollo 11 lunar landing dialogue. The words of three people--Duke, Armstrong, and Aldrin--are in three differently colored fonts.
Presenter Script Apollo11landing-comments.pdf
Comments accompany excerpts of Apollo 11 lunar landing dialogue.
The First Lunar Landing,
Corrected Transcript and Commentary,
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