CLARKSVILLE, Tenn.— On Monday, January 30th, Fred Brody,the Chief of the Spaceflight Meteorology Group at NASA Johnson Space Center, checked in with third graders at Moore Magnet Elementary via Skype.
Students received help from NASA with their Science, Technology, Engineer and Math challenge (STEM). Their current STEM Challenge is to determine the optimal locations based on weather conditions for rocket launch.
“A STEM challenge is a challenge that students come up with an essential question, what they want to answer, and then they integrate their science standards, math standards and then they integrate their technology. Their challenge will be something that they have engineered,” stated Principal of Moore Magnet Elementary, Kim Smith.
For three weeks the third graders have been collecting data from all seven continents where NASA has emergency landing sites. “It’s real world for the students to actually connect to what is actually happening, as they have tracked the weather, they have decided on which city is the best place for NASA to launch a rocket,” Laura Baxter, a third grader teacher at Moore Magnet Elementary, stated.
“The third grade teachers came up with the project and I consulted NASA if they wouldn’t mind talking to the children to help them imagine, ask, and expand their education, to help produce their prototype,” said Nathan Lang, Assistant Principal of Moore Magnet Elementary. “We want the students to talk to the engineers and meteorologist at NASA to lean about their different careers and utilize their abilities to ask questions and imagine what opportunities they have.”
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