Challenger Center for Space Education
Challenger Center for Space Education
Description:
The Challenger Center provides a useful site to teachers looking for cooperative, hands-on classroom resources in space education. Featured Lessons include "Cosmic EdVentures: Exploring Earth’s Neighborhood;" "Marsville: The Cosmic Village;" "Mars City Alphac;" and "Simulation in the Classroom." Students engaging in these projects act as mission engineers and scientists, working in a team, to control the fate of hypothetical space station scenarios. By doing so, they hone their decision-making and problem-solving skills. Teachers employ pre-and post-flight act ivies to help students in their intellectual journey. "Cosmic EdVentures: Exploring Earth’s Neighborhood" creates a simulation for upper elementary and middle school students in which they apply for "and are accepted to" work for Challenger Center’s mythical travel agency on board the futuristic Millennium Station.In "Marsville: The Cosmic Village" and "Mars City Alpha," students act as scientists and engineers designing Martian settlements. "Simulation in the Classroom" tells a story with pictures on how students from Buzz Aldrin Elementary School in Reston, VA, joined with Challenger Center staff to communicate using desktop conferencing technology. In this rover simulation, "pioneers" conduct studies on the surface of Mars. Although the Lessons are portrayed well in summary, it is apparent that teachers will need to join the program and order materials to take full advantage of the referenced material. The site, overall, is a good indication of how schools might collaborate with the Challenger Center on long-term educational projects.
Education Levels:
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Subject:
Astronomy, Careers, Space Sciences, Technology
Resource Type:
Collection
Medium:
Text/HTML
Fee Status:
Free
Beneficiary:
Students
Online provider:
Challenger Center
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