Take Flight Into Scientific Investigations

Celebrate the Centennial of Flight
And World Space Week

In Tennessee
Workshop: Saturday October 4, 2003
All Grades
9:00 AM-12:00PM
Sumner County Airport
Limit 30 Teachers
Light Lunch provided

In this year celebrating the Centennial of Flight, we will use the concept of flight to discuss how to carry out quality scientific investigations in upper elementary, middle, and high school classrooms.  Are you looking for ways to challenge your students with true scientific inquiry?  Have you been frustrated with your attempts at project-based learning?  If so, perhaps this session will help you see what factors help make experiments and investigations successful in the classroom setting.

We will complete a short investigation in looking at how paper airplanes fly setting up a control craft and an experimental craft. We will also spend time reflecting on the key practices and process skills that make the lesson engaging and effective in increasing students' ability to think and reason scientifically.  Teachers will be able to apply what they learn to any scientific investigation.

Participants will be provided resources for completing a unit on flight including posters, research and assessment frameworks, and a special web site designed as follow up for this lesson.

World Space Week is Oct. 4-10

See the United Nations web site: http://www.spaceweek.org/

 

Funding for this workshop is from:

NASA Ideas Grant through the Center of Excellence Information Systems at Tennessee State University &

Dyer Observatory of Vanderbilt University.

Materials will be provided from the NASA Teacher Resource Center at UT Martin.

Teachers will be given a teacher's guide on the Centennial of Flight, posters, and a packet on Aeronautics.

 

To register:
Please email Judy Butler
Judy@DragonflyEnterprises.org email

 

Application

 

Instructors:
Laurette Cousineau, Curriculum Specialist Williamson County Schools and
Judy Butler, Director of Education and Public Outreach
Center of Excellence Information Systems, Tennessee State University

 

 

Location:
Sumner County Regional Airport
1475 Airport Road
Gallatin, TN 37066
(615) 452-6699 (Voice)
http://www.gallatintnairport.com/

 

In this year celebrating the Centennial of Flight, we will use the concept of flight to discuss how to carry out quality scientific investigations in upper elementary, middle, and high school classrooms. Are you looking for ways to challenge your students with true scientific inquiry? Have you been frustrated with your attempts at project-based learning? If so, perhaps this session will help you see what factors help make experiments and investigations successful in the classroom setting.

 

 

Begin An Adventure Learning to Fly

A door prize will be given for  1 hour of flight instruction with a certified flight instructor at the Sumner County Regional Airport.

Donated by Jet harbor Inc., owned by Mary and Damian Weber,  Operators of the Sumner County Regional Airport.