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this flame's a pretty hot fun so if we

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looked at a star which would be a hot

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star blue one and a cold one would be

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red right okay how to get students

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excited about learning science that's a

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question that teachers across the

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country face daily and the answer may be

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in the stars along with the next space

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shuttle nasa will be launching a new

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education program designed to give

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teachers and students a big lift the

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program is called space classroom

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assignment the stars it will happen

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during astro one a space lab mission

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dedicated to astronomy

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our purpose is to involve teachers and

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their students in the excitement of

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space shuttle science missions and also

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to provide educators with some

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additional teaching tools that they can

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use in their classrooms at the heart of

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the space classroom program is a lesson

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on the electromagnetic spectrum taught

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by science astronauts in space as they

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orbit the earth there will be

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demonstrations from a classroom within

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the astro one control center in

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huntsville alabama

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and an opportunity for students to ask

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questions of the astronauts in orbit

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students from five states will

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participate at two nasa facilities the

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marshall space flight center in

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huntsville and the goddard space flight

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center in greenbelt maryland students at

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the marshall center will take part in

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three full days of activities that

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include laboratory sessions sitting

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alongside space lab controllers as they

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direct science activities aboard the

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shuttle and going to nearby u.s space

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space classroom subject matter is

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similar to what these students could

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expect in their home schools the kids in

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space classroom will be doing some

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hands-on activities to explain the

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characteristics and components of the

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electromagnetic spectrum and that is a

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basic physics concept we'll be talking

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about not only the visible light but

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also invisible forms of energy such as

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ultraviolet and x-ray although these

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ideas are basic space classroom will

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give students a new perspective on their

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significance

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it's one thing to learn about a

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scientific concept in the classroom

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but it's something else entirely to see

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how that concept is being applied

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by astronauts aboard the space shuttle

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for example

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and that link between the classroom and

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the real world is what space classroom

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is all about nasa hopes this new program

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will help teachers bring science down to

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earth for their students by taking the

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classroom to space

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in huntsville alabama this is mike

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you know i'll tell you tell you guys

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something we we had a uh

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governor hunt is here but we had a

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governor's conference the governors from

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all the states

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and i don't think any president has had

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that before but one of the goals

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a national goal first time they ever set

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national goals

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was to have much more

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literacy and fluency in math and science

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and so you're out on the cutting edge i

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mean just the knowledge of this but but

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it's a very important goal in

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keeping our country competitive and

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keeping us

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continuing to to lead the world in

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in science and math this whole

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um each element puts off its own color

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and an emission emits a certain color

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and we see the copper makes a nice green

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flame every time so but that's just fine

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have you sit down you can't mr if you

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would go ahead and try this one

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what do i got here then okay you have

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lithium and lithium always makes a red

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flame so if we saw this red flame again

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we would know that we had lithium the

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space classroom lessons will enable

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students to hear a lecture by the

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shuttle team

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and then interact with questions

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and discussion

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the entire learning session will be

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carried by the nasa select to classrooms

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across the country

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what a powerful way

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to teach our kids

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the importance of space

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what a great example of the fa of the

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effect of our space program

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on education well we're seeing that test

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scores are declining in math and science

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and that shows us that kids are really

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losing interest in math and science they

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seem to think that it's something that

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only geniuses can do and it's not

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applicable to their lives but we think

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that it really is a day-to-day thing

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teachers are losing sight of that and

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they need to be encouraged to teach it

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day-to-day in the classroom kids need to

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see that it's something that would help

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them in their future as a consumer and a

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voter and also math and science are real

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things that they could go into as a

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career does that make sense so light

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always travels

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at the same speed and they have