Educator Resources
Boeing Educator Scholarship Fund
We are thrilled to announce the continuation of the Boeing Educator Scholarship Fund, which enables us to provide programming to Kindergarten through eighth-grade teachers who have not previously had an opportunity to participate in a program at the Challenger Learning Center-St. Louis. Priority will be given to teachers at underserved schools.
At the core of the student program is the teacher training component. Prior to the student mission, teachers receive a one-day workshop, where they are given a curriculum, which includes standards-based activities and resources for the teachers to use with their students back in the classroom. In addition, as part of the one-day training, teachers have the opportunity to participate in the same simulated space mission as their students.
The school program includes the Voyage to Mars™, Rendezvous with a Comet™ or Return to the Moon™ simulated space mission for fifth through eighth-grade students and the Micronauts program geared towards Kindergarten through fourth-grade students.
Limited funds are still available. Please call the Challenger Learning Center for more information.
2010-11 Boeing Educator Scholarship Application
Gift Shop
If you would like to pre-order gift shop items, either for the entire class or for individual students, please download the attached file and fax or mail the form with payment two weeks prior to your student mission date(s).
Photo release form
We ask that all students come with a signed photo release form, which also has space for parents to sign up to receive more information about our programs.
Correlations to Education Standards
All of our school programs are aligned with both Missouri and Illinois state education standards. View the links below for details:
Missouri
Rendezvous With a Comet
Voyage to Mars
Return to the Moon
Illinois
Rendezvous with a Comet Learning Standards
Return to the Moon Learning Standards
Mission materials
To help prepare your students for their experience at the Challenger Learning Center we have provided some sample materials that your students will be using during their mission.
Crew Manifest
Things to remember when filling out the Crew Manifest:
- Include students' first and last names
- Fill out the manifest in the order that the lines are numbered
- Use pen and write legibly
- Bring 3 copies of the Crew Manifest with you on your mission day
- Cross out any absent students
- Refer to the curriculum guide to match students' strengths to their assigned job
Crew Manifest (Moon, Mars and Comet)
Task Cards
The first are some sample of Task Cards, which the students will be using to guide them throughout the mission. We have also included a sample Data Log, which the students in Mission Control fill out using research found on their computer and data received from their counterpart working in the Spacecraft.
We encourage you to print these out and show them to your students so they know what they can expect during their mission.
Life Support sample Task Card-Mission Control
Life Support sample Task Card - Spacecraft
We have also created modified versions of the task cards for groups needing lower-level reading materials. Below are samples of the modified task cards and data logs to help educators determine if these are more suitable for their grouops.
Modified Task Card sample - Life Support, Mission Control
Modified Task Card sample - Life Support, Spacecraft
General Space Websites
- Space Shuttle Mission Patches
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/shuttle_patches.html - NASA Mission Patches
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/mission_patches.html - Welcome to the Planets
http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome/mars.htm - Aeronautics and Space Resource for Education
http://spacelink.nasa.gov/home.index.html - StarChild: A Learning Center for Young Astronomers
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/StarChild.html - Space.com
http://www.space.com/ - Introduction to the Nine Planets
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/intro.htmlSpace Image Library
http://www.okstate.edu/aesp/image.html
Working in Space - Tools and Suits Used by Astronauts
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/space/teachers/suited/6work.html
Amazing Space
http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/
- Lessons based on breaking Science@NASA reports
http://www.thursdaysclassroom.com/ - The Space Educators' Handbook
http://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/ - Mars Exploration: Teachers
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/classroom/teachers.html - Destination: Mars
http://teachspacescience.org/graphics/pdf/10000273.pdf - Space Day Website
- Mars Activities
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/classroom/pdfs/MSIP-MarsActivities.pdf - NASA Educator Resource
www.nasa.gov
Voyage to Mars™-Related Websites
- MarsNews.com
http://www.marsnews.com/ - NASA's Mars Exploration Program
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/ - Mars Introduction
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/mars.htm - Aeronautics and Space Resource for Education
http://spacelink.nasa.gov/home.index.html - Welcome to the Planets
http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome/mars.htm - NSSDC Photo Gallery
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/ - Viking Project Information
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/viking.html - Athena Mars Exploration Rovers
http://athena.cornell.edu/home/index.shtml - The Planetary Society
- http://www.planetary.org/mars/
- Mystery On Mars
http://www.headbone.com/derby/mystery/ - The Space Place
http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/index.shtml - Field Trip to Mars
http://www.kidscosmos.org/field-trip-to-mars.html - Mars for Kids
- http://athena.cornell.edu/kids/index.html
- YoungStLouis.com
http://www.youngsaintlouis.com/
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