OUT OF THIS WORLD AND INTO OUR CLASSROOM.

Throughout the first semester, our team will be part of Museum in the Classroom/ISBE project. We will be connected to the Adler Planetarium, twenty-five schools and grad students at the University of Chicago. You are able to use the Internet as well as any other material you are able to access through other sources.


CORE GROUP

Each student will complete a background survey on technology. This survey will be used to determine what training you need to be able to use the Internet, e-mail, video-conferencing, on-line chats, and create panoramas using the Quicktake.

The Core Groups will be selected from a paragraph they completed on the reasons they would like to be the initial trainers of the team. Any interested student may complete a paragraph on why the would like to be CORE MEMBERS. See Ms. White for the forms.)


PLAN OF ACTION

Each student will be assigned a group.
Each group will select a topic in Astronomy that they are interested in learning more about.
In math, the groups will discuss what math concepts will be needed to complete the project and work with Hands-on-Universe (HOU).

The group will use the Internet to:
request and download images from space (HOU) and/or
ask questions about Astronomy (using astronomers, grad students, and other schools) by e-mail, video-conferencing, and on-line chats.

TEAM RESPONSIBILITIES

Each team will be responsibilities for the following:
Dividing the work so that every member has a job.
Making sure that each person does his/her job.
Checking daily with Ms. Gunkel and Ms. White to schedule room time, media, chats, e-mail, and/or video-conferencing to work on the project.

The following sites may help you with your project:

A good search engine is Yahoo. You can start here, then try other searches.

To look at our web pages and more about Adler Planetarium

For more information about our space exploration NASA and NASA SpaceLink.

Especially useful for requesting and downloading images of planets, galaxies, and nebula is Hands-on Universe (HOU). (Remember to see Ms. White for the forms you will need before you try.)

Some interesting facts and exhibits with museums around the world.

Young scientists contains cool sites and hot links for you to explore.

Kids on the Net has resources, museums, TV pages, games, stories, zoos, sports, magazines, science, and math sites just for you.

Galaxies contains great pictures and descriptions if you still can not identify the different types.

To read about space stations and astronauts and some extra stuff Magellan Stellar Sites is a star.

Try this search engineYahooligans (good kid site) for any information you need.

A great source and FUN site to use is Dr. Matrix' Weird Web World of Science

This is a great site for information on the QuickTime VR if you would like to create panoramas.

EVALUATION


You will be evaluated on your ability to access the Internet
Each student will do a self-evaluation at the end of the project.
Each group will do an evaluation at the end of the project.
Each teacher will do an evaluation of each project.


MUSEUM PROJECT

Grissom has two web pages. If you are interested in some background information and before pictures see Grissom OR if you want to see the Adler Grissom page, still under construction. These pages will be changed and will show some of the group projects. Some groups will create web pages of their projects using the technology. Other groups will create text, photos, and video-clips of our field trip to Adler and of our school.


BACK


Background courtesy of Dr. Matrix

Author: Sharon White, swhite@kiwi.dep.anl.gov
Created: July 8, 1996 - Updated: July 19, 1996
Written for the The Fermilab LInC program sponsored by the Fermilab Education Office