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Educators
Aerospace Curriculum
The object of the project funded by the
Florida Space Grant Consortium, Florida Space Research Institute,
and Spaceport Florida Authority is to integrate NASA's Stragetic
Plan for Education into the Brevard County School System.
The subject content includes Aerospace Technology, Space Science,
Human Exploration and Development of Space, Biological and
Physical Research and Earth Science. The activities includes
hands-on, minds-on activities emphasizing the scientific inquiry,
problem solving and group interaction. Sixty teachers in Brevard
County and selected teachers in Pinellas County under the
direction of the Scientific Coordinator and the Lead Teacher
at Stewart Middle Magnet School in Hillsborough County are
involved in the project.
As a part of the project, a web site
(Educators Aerospace Curriculum) was designed to assist the
K-8 classroom teacher in integrating aerospace into their
curriculum by using the excitement of the space program to
motivate their students as they teach their required subjects.
The objective of the project is to utilize NASA's Strategic
Plan for Education and implement it into the Florida School
System. Subject content includes Aerospace Technology, Space
Science, Human Exploration and Development of Space, Biological
and Physical Research and Earth Science.
Project
Team
Jane Hodges, Ph.D., Principal Investigator
Dave Hutton, Executive Director, Edisto
Press
Brandt & Stephanie Secosh, Webmasters
Patricia Manning, Ed.D Evaluator, Professor
Emeritus, University of Central Florida
Brevard County,
Longleaf Elementary School
Mecheall Giombetti, Principal
Katie Manifold, Academic Specialist
Laird Parsons, Fourth Grade Teacher
Patti Henning, Fourth grade teacher
Maria Leaman, Fifth grade teacher
Fred Bartleson, Sixth Grade Teacher
Joan Tuttle, Media Specialist
Hillsborough
County
Cathy Blair, Supervisor of Elementary
Science and Health
Lynn McDaniel, Stewart Middle Magnet
School, Lead Teacher
Pinellas County
Jeri Antozzi, Aerospace Teacher, Forest
Lakes Elementary
US Astronaut
Hall of Fame/US Space Camp Florida
Bill Lupher, Director
Dawna Thorstad, Sr. Sales & Marketing
Director
Kennedy Space
Center Visitor Complex
Billy Specht, Manager of Education
KSC Educator's
Resource Center
Gina Beckels, Director
Consultants
Bob Sieck, Launch Director, Kennedy Space
Center (retired)
Story Musgrave, Astronaut
Ginger Davis, Science Coordinator, Brevard
County Schools
Becky Durrance, Educator, KSC Visitor
Complex
Florida Space
Grant Consortium
Dr. Sam Durrance, Director
Dr. Jaydeep Mukherjee, Administrator
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