In your reflection journal, make a claim and use strong supports for the following prompt:There are some risks that are just not worth taking. Do you feel that going into space is a risk that you would take if given the opportunity? Explain why or why not? What kind of risks have you taken lately?Use specific nouns to strengthen your ideas and write in first person point of view. At the bottom of your reflection, underline 5 different pronouns and circle their antecedents.The following checklist will be used to grade each reflection throughout the project.
Reflection Checklist:
HW: page 103, 104 of English Workshop (exercise 3 only)
Brainstorming Continued:
Day 3Watch some or all of the following videos as you record some unanswered questions that you would like to further explore about space flight or missions. Be prepared to turn the questions in at the end of class for further analysis of possible topics for reasearch.
After viewing the videos to stir your thinking, you turned in your questions that you felt were great topics for further investigation. The following questions were compiled for possible choices:
After reading the article, you will be assigned one question to answer and share with the rest of the class.
1. What event caused the space shuttle program to be “grounded” for more than two years until now?
2. How long have the shuttles been flying, and how long until the shuttles are slated for retirement?
3. Who currently heads NASA?
4. What types of changes has the Discovery undergone to address the concerns that were raised after the Columbia disaster?
5. What is a “launching window”?
6. Who is on the crew of the Discovery, and what are their roles?
7. What findings and charges were made by the Columbia Accident Investigation Board?
8. How has the Discovery mission successfully addressed these charges? Which charges have not been fully addressed and why?
9. For what purpose are the five prototype methods being tested by the Discovery astronauts?
10 . How is the risk from debris being addressed by the Discovery team?
11. How has the fuel tank been redesigned?
12. What is the electronic “nervous system” for the wings designed to indicate?
13. Why was it different to pinpoint the errors in the Columbia disaster, and how have documentation changes been put in place for the new shuttle launching?
14. How does this affect the time (day or night) the shuttle can be launched?
15. How will additional aircraft equipped with camera systems assist the launch?
16. What is the purpose of the “tricky rendezvous pitch maneuver” that will be undertaken by the pilots?
17. What types of activities will be undertaken at the International Space Station?
18. When was the last shuttle mission to the International Space Station?
What questions are you left with after reading "Old Shuttle, New Again"? Write a reflection in your journal discussing what question(s) are still left unanswered or what new question(s) have formed as a result of reading this article. Does it present a problem? In what ways do you think you can go about finding the answers?
Refining the Guiding Questions for Making a Selection:
Day 5
After compiling the unanswered questions that you would like to further research, we will categorize them to narrow down the choices. As a group, you will decide on one of the several possible guiding questions for collaborative group research.
Guiding Questions
Guiding Questions for Space Missions
Guiding Questions for Space Flights
How do the conditions of space affect human health?
What would It take for a successful
manned-mission to Mars?
What kind of technology could NASA use to to
increase the chances of man walking on Mars?
How can we live on Mars?
What could NASA do in order to protect
astronauts on a journey to space?
With advanced technology, how can we design a more efficient
space shuttle?
How can NASA fortify the rockets to accomplish greater space missions?
Problem finding means problem discovery. It is part of the larger problem process that includes problem shaping and problem solving. Problem finding requires intellectual vision and insight into what is missing. This involves the application of creativity. Finding a problem can, depending on the problem, be either much easier or much harder than solving the problem.
Because you solve problems on a daily basis, you may not be aware of that you take steps to successfully come up with a solution. The following should be used to help you take all of the necessary steps for researching your topic:
We have currently reviewed the rubric that will be used as one form of assessment of the PBL project. Use your rubric as you view the video that I recorded as you discussed what you know and what you want to learn about your guiding question on space missions and space flight. On a loose leaf sheet of paper, jot down evidence from the video that would support the level 5 category that would result in being accomplished. Use specific nouns and pronouns as you take your brainstorming notes and write a reflection on what you observed. As you write your in your reflection journal, use the checklist that will be referred to as your writing is evaluated.
As we work on our space project, we will continue to review and practice essay writing. We have focused on several traits of writing this year such as sentence structure, mechanics, and organization. We are currently working on adding great supports for the development of ideas.
As we have discussed, the introduction should always include an attention getter, follow-up sentence, thesis, three supporting details, and concluding sentence.
You will receive ongoing feedback through the Project/Problem-Based Research. Remember that your reflections will be graded according to the reflection journal checklist that has been posted to this wiki page. There will be announced deadlines given throughout various stages of the project and the following rubric will be used to assess your ability of inquiry skills, knowledge building, problem solving, team building skills, and creativity of presentation:
Extra Activities:
We are creating a gallery exhibition for the space shuttle program. Your assigned group will answer the guiding questions as you create a new wiki page and title it accordingly. Use one picture to accurately represent your assignment. Use the following link to help you research http://search.nasa.gov/search/search.jsp?nasaInclude=space+shuttles
As you respond to these questions, answer in complete sentences and use strong adjectives, specific nouns, and pronouns (to avoid repetiveness).
Group 1: Welcome to [name of the class exhibition]
-What is the mission of NASA, and when was the agency founded?
-What have been some highlights of the American space program since its inauguration?
-What is the purpose of the Kennedy Space Center, and what are some of its achievements?
-What are some of the benefits of a space shuttle program?
Group 2: The Space Shuttle Atlantis
-What were some of the missions of this shuttle? Describe at least two.
-What are some notable points in this shuttle’s service record, from its maiden voyage to its most recent?
-How old is this shuttle?
-What is the significance of the name of this shuttle?
Group 3: The Space Shuttle Challenger -What were some of the missions of this shuttle? Describe at least two.
-What were some notable points in this shuttle’s service record, from its maiden voyage to its last?
-How old was this shuttle?
-What is the significance of the name of this shuttle?
Group 4: The Space Shuttle Columbia
-What were some of the missions of this shuttle? Describe at least two.
-What were some notable points in this shuttle’s service record, from its maiden voyage to its last?
-How old was this shuttle?
-What is the significance of the name of this shuttle?
Group 5: The Space Shuttle Discovery
-What were some of the missions of this shuttle? Describe at least two, including its July 2005 mission.
-What are some notable points in this shuttle’s service record?
-How old is this shuttle?
-What is the significance of the name of this shuttle?
Group 6: The Space Shuttle Endeavour
-What were some of the missions of this shuttle? Describe at least two.
-What are some notable points in this shuttle’s service record, from its maiden voyage to its most recent?
-How old is this shuttle?
-What is the significance of the name of this shuttle?
-Describe how at least two of the following systems or processes work, using diagrams and text:
main engines, external airlock, orbiter processing, life support and other environmental controls, launch processing, payloads, orbital maneuvering, external fuel tank, parachutes, remote manipulating system, rocket boosters, thermal protection system, SRB retrieval.
Analyze space cartoons and customize your own comic cel at the Comic Strip Generator. Use quotation marks, commas, and end punctuation correctly in context. After you have completed the task, take a screen shot (apple+shift+4) and save it to your desktop. Then add it to the wiki page Space Humor and make sure that you put your class section and first name and last initial.
-What are the roles of a typical space shuttle crew, and how might these roles depend on the particular mission of a crew?
-Briefly profile the crew of the July 2005 Discovery shuttle with each astronaut’s short biography, expertise, and country of origin.
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