Timeline: Kalpana Chawla

Questions

1. Read a timeline According to the timeline, what happened in 1994?

   Opened a laboratory for inventing in Menlo Park, New Jersey Became the first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate Earned a doctorate in aerospace engineering in the United States Was selected to train as a NASA astronaut
2. Read a timeline In what year did this happen? "Flew into space aboard the space shuttle Columbia."

   1988 1962 1997 2003
3. Read a timeline On the timeline, what happened next after "Earned her engineering degree in Chandigarh, India"?

   Flew into space aboard the space shuttle Columbia Was selected to train as a NASA astronaut Earned a doctorate in aerospace engineering in the United States Chawla is born in Karnal, India
4. Read a timeline According to the timeline, where was Kalpana Chawla born?

   Karnal, India Diamond, Missouri Woolsthorpe, England Edinburgh, Scotland
5. Timeline math How many years does the timeline cover from the first event after birth to the last event in the list?

   35 15 16 25
6. Text features Why is a timeline a good way to show this information?

   It explains the meaning of words. It shows how big things are. It shows where places are on a map. It shows events in the order they happened.

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