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Hi my name is Ota Lutz I'm
NASA's Explorer Schools
Coordinator at the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory
in California.
Hi and I'm Rachel Power, I'm
the NASA Explorer Schools
Coordinator at Kennedy
Space Center in Florida.
And we're here today to
talk with you a little bit
about the rocket's educator
guide, it's one of our favorites
and we we're going to give you
a little bit of an overview
of what we're going
to accomplish
in the next few modules
and then we'll go ahead
and launch into the activities.
Right so throughout this
electronic professional
development we'll be talking
about the educator guide,
we'll kind of give you an
overview how to navigate
through the guide, we'll
look at specific activities,
how to actually navigate
through the activities
but we've selected one
in particular that we'd
like to focus on today and that
is making a basic high power
paper rocket, from that
we'll launch into the science
and engineering concepts
that are involved
with launching a
high-power paper rocket.
Yeah and actually we mentioned
earlier that this is one
of our favorite activities,
one of our favorite guides.
Right. So it's one of my
favorites just because it's been
around for a really long time,
the lessons are tried and true
but recently it was updated.
Right so some of the
activities are brand new,
a lot of you might be familiar
with the old rocket guide...I
don't want to say old
but the previous version
of the rocket guide
so this has been all new
updated, brand new activities
but some referring back
to the tried and true
like we always have
loved and enjoyed.
And one of the reasons we
like the these activities is
the materials are easy to find,
they're things that are
common around your house,
they're common in
a hardware store
and the instructions are
really quite easy to follow.
Right they have great
reproducible worksheets.
They reach a variety of ages
and different difficulty levels
so it is a really great guide.
Right, so shall we go
ahead and take a look
at that guide a little bit?
Yeah, there's...if we
get started looking
at the different sections
throughout the guide there is a
pictorial history you'll
notice as you start to flip
through the guide it takes
you through the early days
of rocketry through to
today's rockets including the
space shuttle.
And after that you'll find a
section on how rockets work
and you'll see some
illustrations that use common,
everyday items, things
that kids are familiar
with to exhibit the
forces in motion standards.
Right, and then we apply
those forces to rocketry,
to try to inspire students
to continue wanting
to learn science, technology,
engineering and mathematics.
And then if you are
interested in the standards
that the activities
address, which we all are
because we're all looking
to teach at the standards,
there are two standards matrices
in the guide, at the very front
of the guide you will find one
for the National Science
Education standards,
and one for the National
Math standards,
the way the matrices are
organized is along the left are
all the activities in the guide
and across the top
are the standards
and then the little
rocket designates whether
that particular activity
hits a particular standard.
Additionally there is a
suggested grade level matrix
for each activity, again you're
teachers, we're teachers,
we're accustomed to adapting
things for various grade levels
so this is merely a suggestion
and things can be
adapted up or down.
Right but it does give you
a good overview real quickly
if you just want
to quickly glance
at that matrices
you can get an idea
of which activities might
apply to your students.
Well, gosh Rachel it looks like
we have everything we need,
it looks like we have a guide
that has explicit instructions,
some great powerpoints.
Absolutely, I think we
have everything we need
and we should probably launch
into one of our activities.
All right, let's do that.
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