Teacher-Astronaut out to Lift Academic Sights of Students

Autor/in	Trotter, Andrew
Titel	Teacher-Astronaut out to Lift Academic Sights of Students
Quelle	In: Education Week, 26 (2007) 43, S.1 (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0277-4232
Schlagwörter	Elementary Secondary Education; Space Exploration; Science Education; Experiments; Science Activities + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weltraumforschung; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Erprobung
Abstract	The space shuttle Endeavour, slated to begin an 11-day mission August 7, will carry an educational payload that includes two "growth chambers" loaded with basil and lettuce seeds, and a list of activities to be led by teacher-turned-astronaut Barbara R. Morgan. The activities targeted to K-12 students are add-ons to the shuttle crew's primary missions, which include attaching an 11-foot truss segment to the orbiting International Space Station, NASA officials announced last week. Joyce Winterton, NASA's assistant administrator for education, said the agency's educational goals include attracting, retaining, and improving students for the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. With that link to the so-called STEM subjects, the space agency is sounding a national policy theme that has seen renewed prominence in recent years. Beyond that emphasis, Morgan said the shuttle mission would carry a broader educational bounty. "Every aspect of everything that's going on in that mission--there is something that connects to every discipline that we teach." However, some are not so upbeat about the project, citing the high costs of space-based education. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10