During the week of November 16th-20th, students in grades K-8th are invited to re-discover the remarkable accomplishment of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. Forty years have passed since this momentous event and to celebrate, NASA's Digital Learning Network (DLN) will deliver a daily videoconference that will explore a single NASA centers contribution to Apollo 11. These programs will also feature an in-studio NASA employee who had a special connection with Apollo 11. Student participation and interaction with the DLN host and NASA expert is assured!
Would you like to challenge your students to exercise their bodies and minds? The DLN has designed a fun activity that incorporates fitness and math! Walk to the Moon encourages students to count their steps around their homes and schools in order to reach a goal of 250,000 steps. Each step will be equal to one mile. With approximately 250,000 miles between the Earth and the Moon, your students will "walk" to the moon! Students may chart their progress individually or in groups the choice is yours. Either way, the DLN would like to hear about your class journey!
Please email your results to
jsc-dislearn@mail.nasa.gov, and you may hear your students stories LIVE during the DLN's week-long special event in November!
Please note there will be a global flair to this week long event as students from various nations around the world will be selected to join and participate!
Descriptions of each event are as follows:
Note: All programs are scheduled to begin at 12:00 CST and end at 1:00 CST
Langley Research Center- Nov. 16
Learn how a young engineer convinced his boss that landing on the Moon would only be possible if something called Lunar Orbit Rendezvous was used as the passageway to the Moon.
Marshall Spaceflight Center - Nov. 17
Learn how a rocket taller than the Statue of Liberty was constructed for peaceful space exploration and why its presence tipped the scale of the space race in the America's favor.
Kennedy Space Center- Nov. 18
Discover America's spaceport, the site where the Apollo 11 astronauts made their final preparations before counting down to the launch of the fastest vehicle human beings have ever ridden in- the Saturn V rocket.
Johnson Space Center- Nov. 19
Learn more about the home of the astronaut corps and take a peak inside the Mission Control Center, where a room called the “FCR 2” was the setting for communicating with Neil, Buzz, and Michael as they zoomed towards the Moon.
Ames Research Center- Nov. 20
Traveling to the Moon once again is expected to take place in the next decade. Learn how this will take place through a new NASA program called Constellation.
Registration
To participate in this program, your school must have H.323 standards-based videoconferencing capabilities. For more information on technical requirements go to:
http://dln.nasa.gov/dln/content/techinfo/If you would like to be placed on the “we’re interested" list for this free program, U.S. schools please reply to
jsc-dislearn@mail.nasa.gov and international schools reply to
marci.powell@polycom.com.
Please respond no later than close of business, October 14. We will contact you soon as a possible participant. We hope you will be able to join us!
When replying, the subject line must be: Apollo 11 40th Anniversary
Please reply with the following information:
- Your name:
- Your work email:
- Your work telephone number:
- Your school's name:
- Your school's city:
- Your school's state:
- Your school's technical point of contact:
- Technical POC's work telephone:
- Technical POC's work email:
- Student grade levels:
- Anticipated number of participating students:
- Date/time of preferred participation:
U.S. schools contact:
jsc-dislearn@mail.nasa.govInternational schools contact:
Marci.powell@polycom.com
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