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Headquarters Report
Space Foundation teams with IMAX film Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon
The Space Foundation is working with IMAX to launch students’ love of space by providing a free Educator’s Guide for teachers who take their classes to view Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon. The 24-page resource guide is filled with hands-on lessons, experiments, and observation activities that will keep students interested in learning about the Moon and space exploration long after the film has ended.
Featuring a comprehensive educational program for grades 3-9, the film’s learning can be extended into the classroom with lessons and activities focused on science, math, language arts, history and technology curriculums. For more information on this film and to find a theatre near you, please visit www.imax.com/magnificentdesolation.
Space Foundation Summer Institute a huge success
The Space Foundation concluded an extremely successful five week graduate level Summer Institute for educators on July 29. Two hundred teachers from Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Ohio, Texas, Washington, and West Virginia gained experiential and conceptual learning in science, technology, engineering, and math.
For attending the courses, teachers received graduate level credit, and some received a Master’s Degree with a Space Studies Emphasis. Their courses included Space Technologies in the Classroom (June 20-24); Earth Systems Science (June 27-July 1); Rocketry and the Biology of Living in Space, Space History and Space Law (July 11-15); Biological and Physical Research: Exploring Nano-Science Technologies (July 18-22); and Astronomy Principles for the Classroom: Astrobiology (July 25-29). Educators learned content, strategies, and methods that are immediately transferable to their classrooms. They received teaching supplies and lesson plans that will enable them to help students meet state learning standards. With the knowledge and experiences teachers gained and the support they receive from the Space Foundation, both student interest in science and space and achievement in those subjects should increase.
We would like to thank The Boeing Company and NASA for their sponsorship that allows teachers to attend the Summer Institute. Boeing was the first and only corporation to provide full sponsorship for one of the courses. Its generous support allowed Colorado teachers the opportunity to have scholarships to the Space Technologies in the Classroom course.
Without sponsors, many teachers are not financially able to partake in professional development. If you or your company is interested in sponsoring one or more teachers or an entire course at the 2006 Summer Institute, please contact
Dr. Patricia Arnold, Vice President, Education and Workforce Development.
Save the dates for these upcoming Space Foundation events:
Strategic Space 2005 – 4-6 October in Omaha, Neb. Register by September 2 to save $140 off the industry rate. Visit www.StratSpace.org or call 1-800-691-4000.
Florida Space 2005 – November 15-17 at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex on Florida's Space Coast. Register by October 14 to save $100 off the industry rate. Visit www.FloridaSpace.org or call 1-800-691-4000.
22nd National Space Symposium – April 3-6, 2006, in Colorado Springs, Colo. Avoid the rush and reserve your room today! Visit www.NationalSpaceSymposium.org or call 1-800-691-4000 for more information.
Take your company’s participation to the next level. E-mail sponsorships@spacefoundation.org or exhibitor@spacefoundation.org for more information.
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