Location
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Atlantis/ Discovery Rooms
Start Date
25-4-1991 1:00 PM
End Date
25-4-1991 4:00 PM
Description
The Challenger Center for Space Science Education is a nonprofit educational organization with a mission to increase the number of elementary and middle school students interested in science, and to reverse the negative feelings many American youngsters have about science and technology. The Challenger Center was established in 1986 by the families of the Challenger shuttle crew as the most appropriate way to continue the Challenger crew's educational mission: to teach, to explore and to inspire.
Challenger Center uses the excitement of space exploration to capture children's interest. Through interesting and hands-on, problem-solving, space-related activities, children experience first-hand the opportunities and satisfactions offered by science and technology. To ensure reaching the broadest possible group of schoolchildren nationwide, Challenger Center operates through a distinctive series of collaborations with local schools, science center and museums, government agencies and community organizations.
Challenger Center currently has four core educational programs:
1) Challenger Learning Center Sites form a national network of high-technology space-flight simulators for exciting hands-on learning experiences.
2) Satellite Learning Network is a continuing series of teleconference programs for classrooms featuring space-based lessons, "call-in" interviews, activities and materials for the classroom.
3) Touching the Future: Linking the Classroom with Space is a series of teacher training workshops led by 100 NASA Teacher-In-Space finalists who are the core of the Challenger's National Faculty. This program uses space-based teaching and curriculum materials designed to be effective tools and strategies for teaching science.
4) Adventures in Exploration is a series of educational projects involving students from around the world in year-long space mission simulations designed to address the challenges of problem-solving in multicultural and multilingual situations.
Paper Session III-A - Challenger Center Touching the Future
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Atlantis/ Discovery Rooms
The Challenger Center for Space Science Education is a nonprofit educational organization with a mission to increase the number of elementary and middle school students interested in science, and to reverse the negative feelings many American youngsters have about science and technology. The Challenger Center was established in 1986 by the families of the Challenger shuttle crew as the most appropriate way to continue the Challenger crew's educational mission: to teach, to explore and to inspire.
Challenger Center uses the excitement of space exploration to capture children's interest. Through interesting and hands-on, problem-solving, space-related activities, children experience first-hand the opportunities and satisfactions offered by science and technology. To ensure reaching the broadest possible group of schoolchildren nationwide, Challenger Center operates through a distinctive series of collaborations with local schools, science center and museums, government agencies and community organizations.
Challenger Center currently has four core educational programs:
1) Challenger Learning Center Sites form a national network of high-technology space-flight simulators for exciting hands-on learning experiences.
2) Satellite Learning Network is a continuing series of teleconference programs for classrooms featuring space-based lessons, "call-in" interviews, activities and materials for the classroom.
3) Touching the Future: Linking the Classroom with Space is a series of teacher training workshops led by 100 NASA Teacher-In-Space finalists who are the core of the Challenger's National Faculty. This program uses space-based teaching and curriculum materials designed to be effective tools and strategies for teaching science.
4) Adventures in Exploration is a series of educational projects involving students from around the world in year-long space mission simulations designed to address the challenges of problem-solving in multicultural and multilingual situations.
Comments
Space Education
Session Chairman: Barbara Morgan, NASA’s “Teacher in Space” Designee, NASA, Education Affairs Office, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Session Organizer: Gerard Ventre, Acting Director, Space Education and Research Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando FL