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children have a real zeal for life and a
curiosity to learn
many young people have an incredible
fascination and romance with airplanes
and rocket ships in outer space
the national aeronautics and space
administration is directed by law
to report to the public upon
developments and peaceful uses
and exploration of air and space for
this reason
every nasa field center has an office
that works with the general public
as well as educators to disseminate
knowledge gained as a result
of nasa's research efforts one of the
ways that nasa works with educators
is through our aerospace education
workshop program
these workshops are co-sponsored each
year by universities
colleges and school districts across the
whole united states
although the content of aerospace
workshop varies
often teachers are introduced into such
topics as
applications in scientific satellites
principles of rocketry
exploration of the solar system
aeronautics manned space flight
activities
and the arts in space in addition
teachers are often introduced to the
uses of community resources
such as a visit to the local airport
planetarium
weather bureau or aerospace industry
hello my name is lynn bondurant chief of
the public services office at the nasa
lewis research center in cleveland ohio
and it's my pleasure to be your host as
you visit the 11th annual
teachers workshop the sky is your
classroom co-sponsored by baldwin
wallace college
kent state university and the lewis
research center
in the next few minutes you will be
introduced into how model rockets are
used to teach about the principles of
rocketry
how eggs are packaged to represent an
astronaut landing on another planet
and how a trip to the cleveland museum
of natural history
was used to introduce a telescope and
planetarium
plus lots lots more
hey nancy why are you taking the teacher
workshop i'm taking it because i've
heard so many wonderful things about it
a lot of my friends have already taken
the workshop and have highly recommended
it to other teachers
so that's why i'm taking it this summer
i'm taking the teacher workshop
primarily because i've heard good things
about it and also what i'm hoping to get
out of it is to
get some ideas for things i can do in
the classroom and also some ideas i can
use to help other teachers in our system
with it works out great thanks
all right we want to do another activity
and this one is one that
i thoroughly enjoyed doing with teachers
and students
and i would love someday to be able to
do it with
the administration especially that
person in that school
who is in charge of talking on the
squawk box all the time
you know you catch three of the 15 words
that they say
and you try to put the three together
and you don't have any idea what they're
talking about
so we're going to play a little game
called communication
and what we're going to do is that we're
going to have some tracking stations
which will be some of you people mike up
behind the curtains here just around the
corner
is these same objects
assembled into a given object okay
on top of it is
a round shape
with eight holes going around it
and a center hole
this the center hole is perpendicular to
the object
the blue spoke is put in one of the side
holes
keep going perpendicular still above
that straight
up is a yellow spoke about two inches in
length
stuck into one of the holes
on top of that is a green
fin shape stuck in
narrow end down wide end up
time that you didn't get all the way
through bring it out here mike
yes
okay bring it down and then take it and
walk it along and take a look to see how
well
they did mike
scientific and application satellites
affect our lives daily
we use communication satellites to tie
the world closer together
meteorological satellites to see weather
on a global basis
scientific satellites to monitor the
earth and its atmosphere from
space
a visit to the lewis research center
provides an opportunity to see firsthand
the facilities and equipment that have
played a significant role
in aeronautical space and energy
research
so
the first a in nasa stands for
aeronautics
in a workshop teachers construct model
airplanes to learn about the principles
of flight
lift drag and thrust
do
the cowling which is the front part of
the plane here
and the propeller this has a three
bladed propeller some have two blade
props and
this one has little electrical de-icing
boots here so that if we get into ice
we can turn this on and the heat
in the boot itself will help to melt the
ice off the spinner here
causes the shape to be more streamlined
so it reduces the resistance of the drag
the nose gear of course retracts up into
the fuselage
we have a landing light here for a night
flying
or anytime around an airport environment
and you want to turn the light on so
other people can see you easily
one thing that you might not think about
is
the wright brothers are credited with
the first successful
heavier than their aircraft at the end
of december
well the middle of december 1903. okay
now the
europeans the english and the french did
the most
of developing early aircraft but the
first aircraft was flown in europe
it wasn't flown in europe until 1906. so
you've got at least a two year
difference there at the minimum
between the first aircraft flown in the
united states and the first one in
europe
but if you go to say like 1910 1911 1912
most all the aircraft that were built
and flying were built in europe
and you have any idea why they were not
built in the united states
it's mainly because the wright brothers
were having a fight over their patent
on the controllability the main person
they were against was a guy by the name
of glenn curtis
and they had a big fight and it didn't
end really until in the 1930s
so we didn't develop many airplanes
whenever
curtis would build an airplane the
rights would say he was infringing on
their patent
but now in england and france they
really didn't care about the rights
patents so they just went ahead and
built airplanes
hot air balloons this is how it started
out 1783.
so
that's the biggest difference between a
planetarium and an observatory
a lot of times uh teachers will mix them
up
people come into the planetarium for the
first time and they'll say well what
they do is they open the ceiling up
and show you what the sky looks like
well that doesn't happen in the
planetarium that happens only in an
observatory so there is
a very distinct difference there is a
machine of course in the middle of the
room
here and in this case its telescope
here's the edge of the sun here's the
the one edge of the sun i'm not sure if
that's leading or the following edge i'd
have to
figure out the optics i believe that's
probably the
following edge there let me go across
the disc here again there's those spots
and there's the other end
do
the space telescope becomes operational
we will be able to see 10 times farther
into space than we can now
we will be able to see objects 50 times
fainter than we can from the earth
we will increase our visible universe to
a volume
350 times what it is today
think of the exciting discoveries that
lie ahead
first of all the guys that flew in these
flights were pretty small in statute
remember in the apollo program in the
early programs the astronaut could be no
taller than 5 foot 11 and weigh no more
than 175 pounds
the reason that was because of the size
of the spacecraft you know
auto sequence initiative roger
battle has it look looks good here
flight good agreement okay who's that
either that's once he looks good but
okay capcom let's go
okay we're going capcom let's get really
do
so
oh
he's got one with rubber bands over
there
anybody want a name oh no you want parts
of a name
okay
in the past few minutes you've seen just
a portion of the activities that are
carried out
during the workshop sessions many other
activities and stations are conducted to
familiarize
teachers with up-to-date information and
provide an overview of air and space
concepts and terms
kevin why are you taking the air and
space workshop here at louis well
my wife took it last year and she had
taken it about seven or eight years
before so she's
actually taking the same workshop twice
and uh
sitting at home and getting all the you
know experience the stories of the
experiences and the fun that she's had
here
i decided it was my turn uh i teach 9th
graders science and
in fact i would have taken it last year
except someone had to stay home and and
watch the kids so
this is my year and my turn for the
workshop
so this year you get to share the
stories with your wife right and she
gets to stay home and take care of the
kids so
i'm really looking forward to a real fun
experience
well that's great thanks thank you well
i am basically an english teacher
but every year my students are allowed
to do an in-depth study
on any subject that they choose they
contract to do this program on their own
and so many of them in recent years have
been interested in flying in space
and it's something that i know so little
about i thought this was an opportunity
for me to learn that's great why do you
think the students are so much
interested in there in space
well because it's coming thing and the
possibility of living sometime
on another planet you know is very
feasible
especially when you look back at all the
other buck rogers things that we've had
in the past
so the dreams of yesterday really do
become the realities of it exactly
the future is where our young people
will live
we owe them the opportunity to dream
to wonder to imagine
to research and experiment who knows
what experience will become a memorable
moment in their young lives
that possibly could change the course of
their future
teaching air and space concepts can
motivate an excited young person
to dream of their world of tomorrow
you
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