Computer Science – Learning
Scientific paper
Dec 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009agufmed41a0521b&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #ED41A-0521
Computer Science
Learning
[6250] Planetary Sciences: Solar System Objects / Moon
Scientific paper
The Dynamic Response of the Environment at the Moon (DREAM) team is one of seven teams comprising the NASA Lunar Science Institute. DREAM’s goal is to reveal, advance, and test the extremes of the solar-lunar environmental connection. DREAM’s education and outreach (E/PO) program is focused on student and teacher participation with scientists. The primary component of the DREAM E/PO program is two Lunar Extreme Workshops (LEWs) and the supporting materials developed for each LEW. The workshops will bring together scientists and modelers from the DREAM team with advanced high school and/or community college students and their teachers. The LEWs will allow student/teacher participants to interact directly with the scientists and to experience the process of science in action. Participation in LEWs and pre-LEW training will expose students to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers and engage them in learning new STEM content. During the two LEWs, the new, integrated lunar models developed by the DREAM team will be tested using extreme environmental drivers. These extreme events include: 1) solar storms and human excursion into Shackleton Crater and 2) human activity/lunar excavation and impact cratering. Although the LEWs will be complex in nature, the students and teachers will receive extensive pre-LEW training via access to online curricular resources already in development and Webinars with DREAM science team members, during which the students/teachers will get to know the team members and put their new knowledge into context. The curricular materials will include resources and activities pertaining to space weather, plasma, electricity, circuits, magnetism, magnetospheres, exospheres, impact cratering, and modeling. The activities are being mapped to the National Science Education Standards and the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Benchmarks for Science Literacy. Students will be encouraged to read and review resources on their own and to meet with their teacher at least every other week as a group for review, instruction, activities, and participation in Webinars with DREAM scientists. Pre-LEW training will begin approximately 6 months prior to each LEW. Students will be required to blog about their experiences during the LEWs and pre-LEW training. Along with the curricular materials and Webinars, these blogs will be made publicly accessible so that other students and the public may share in their experiences. The E/PO team also plans to communicate the excitement of DREAM’s efforts to the general public via the NASA Museum Alliance and social media, such as Facebook.
Bleacher L.
Farrell William M.
Gross Nicholas Angelo
Twu Y.
Weir H. M.
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