Inspecting the blue dot: goals, methods, and developments of the project 'Columbus Eye'.

Autor/inn/en	Rienow, Andreas; Graw, Valerie; Heinemann, Sascha; Schultz, Johannes Andreas; Selg, Fabian; Menz, Gunter
Titel	Inspecting the blue dot: goals, methods, and developments of the project 'Columbus Eye'.
Quelle	(2015), 8 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	http://www.columbuseye.uni-bonn.de
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Medienpädagogik; Problemorientierter Unterricht; Foto; Lernplattform; Unterrichtsmedien; Video; Fachdidaktik; Fernerkundung; Bild; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Raumfahrt
Abstract	[... In 2014 the] NASA launched the High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) payload to the International Space Station (ISS). HDEV consists of four commercially available high definition cameras. Mounted on the ESA Columbus module, the cameras cover three different perspectives: aft, forward, and nadir view. The only European partner of the HDEV experiment and exclusively in charge of filing the fascinating footage is the German project 'Columbus Eye - Live-Imagery from the ISS in Schools'. Columbus Eye is carried out at the University of Bonn and sponsored by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) Space Administration with funds from the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi). It aims to develop educational material based on the earth observing imagery from the ISS and has published a learning portal on HDEV (www.columbuseye.uni-bonn.de). Accordingly, this paper presents the educational valorization of the HDEV footage for teachers and pupils. Insights into the process chain of recording, enhancing, storing, and finally publishing the HDEV videos are given. Furthermore, it is explained how the measurable world behind those colorful images and videos taken from space can act as illustrative teaching resources for courses in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, known as the STEM subjects. Here, pupils are to learn about the benefits of spaceflight and earth observation for society and the environment, while at the same time discovering the uniqueness and vulnerability of our planet. This paper addresses the question of how earth observation can be harmonized with the everyday school curricula in the light of problem-based learning. Hence, witnessing geospatial analyses turns experience into real understanding. (Orig.).
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Update	2016/3