Project SPECTRA! A New Program Focusing on Science, Math and Engineering in Middle Schools and High School

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Dec 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005agufmed14a..05b&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2005, abstract #ED14A-05

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0800 Education, 0805 Elementary And Secondary Education, 5405 Atmospheres (0343, 1060)

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Project SPECTRA!, a new program that combines math and science in an engineering framework, emphasizes hands-on and data-based activities for middle and high school students. Using spectroscopy as its framework, Project SPECTRA! explores how light can give us information about the planets in our solar system. Project SPECTRA! drives students to explore space science and engineering by working with authentic data from the Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVIS) to experience first-hand how scientists use planetary and lunar spectra to learn about our solar system. Problem-solving and engineering add to the depth of the Project SPECTRA! materials. Current work focuses on UVIS data from Saturn, courtesy of the Cassini mission, with an emphasis on fingerprints and patterns in nature, light and spectroscopy, the technology involved in the UVIS instrument, and building a spectrograph. The program is slated for testing in Boulder Valley School District, the Denver School for Science and Technology and the Colorado MESA after school program, starting in 2006.

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