NSTA STEM21

July 26-30, 2021

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FILTERS APPLIED:Postsecondary, Interactive Workshop, Middle Level, Preservice Science Education

 

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NASA's Moon to Mars: Using the Engineering Design Process to Build Satellites

Tuesday, July 27 • 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM


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Best Activities for grades 3-5
Best Activities for grades K-2
Best Satellite build launch 5-8.pdf
Pages from the BEST Guides for grades 5-8 for Satellite build and Satellite launch activity.
NASA BEST Satellite NSTA 21.pptx
Powerpoint used during presentation

STRAND: Middle Level

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Use each stage of the Engineering Design Process to complete a challenge of building and drop testing a satellite while making connections to NASA missions.

TAKEAWAYS:
1. We can use the engineering design process in our everyday life to solve problems and make improvements; 2. NASA engineers must ask a question, imagine a solution, plan a design, create that model, experiment and test that model, then take time to improve the original—all steps that are crucial to mission success from Moon to Mars and beyond!; and 3. While this activity will focus on teaching the engineering design process using the process skills of measuring, calculating, designing, and evaluating, the "boring part" of ask, imagine, plan will be focused on to emphasize deeper learning as a thought process prior to simply "building stuff."

SPEAKERS:
Barbie Buckner (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: Greenbelt, MD)

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