SPECIAL NASA GRANT FOR e-MISSIONS

Challenger Reach 2 U Program

Imagine a group of students who embarked on an exciting simulated space mission without ever leaving the classroom!

The Challenger Learning Center of Colorado (CLCC) was partnered with NASA to reach elementary students from under-served communities, including rural, lower socio-economic status, Hispanic and Native American school districts.

This Internet-based educational program allowed students to participate in Challenger-style hands-on, exciting simulated space missions and provided educators with the support they needed to add creative, career-focused lessons and activities to their classrooms.  (Traveling mission technology kits were available for loan to districts that did not have the necessary technology requirements.)

 

What are e-Missions?

What is the Moon, Mars and Beyond Experience?

For the answer to these questions and to view a TV news video clip of an actual Moon, Mars and Beyond Experience, see our e-Mission page.

NASA Websites

NASA’s website for Educators

NASA's learning technologies Website

Digital Learning Network -- To request live interactive educational Expeditions, Design Challenges, and virtual visits by NASA employees through videoconference, call 281-244-7325 or visit http://dln.nasa.gov.

Teaching From Space – Incorporate unique STEM experiences in the classroom through a variety of NASA mission-related activities, including Space Station downlinks, Earth geology images from the ISS and ARISS (Amateur Radio on the ISS)

EarthKAM -- A program that provides stunning, high quality photographs of our planet taken from the Space Shuttle and International Space Station. Students have taken thousands of photographs of Earth by using the internet to direct a digital camera on selected shuttle flights and currently on the International Space Station. See http://www.earthkam.ucsd.edu/.

Starchild -- Site for K-8 students with information on the solar system and space travel. Information, games and activities are found at http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov.

Spacesuits and Spacewalks -- Learn space history and explore the interactive “clickable” suit at http://www.nasa.gov./education/spacesuits.

NASA Role Model for Students -- You can introduce your students to someone who has actually worked for NASA. Click here for a brief bio on Joe Fuller, Founder and President of Futron Corporation. Perhaps Mr. Fuller's story may inspire some of your students to STEM careers.

Who Participated In Challenger Reach 2 U?

 

SCHOOL		Colorado SCHOOL DISTRICT
Academy for Adv & Creative Learning Animas ES Aguilar ES Cedar Ridge ES Cheraw ES Columbine ES Cotapaxi Consolidated Schools Custer County ES Edison ES Explore ES Falcon ES Fowler ES Gateway ES High Plains ES Las Animas ES La Junta Intermediate LaVeta ES Manzanola ES Monroe ES Needham ES Odyssey ES Pleasant View ES Roosevelt Edison Charter School Scholars to Leaders Shanner ES Sierra Grande School Sunrise ES Swink ES Talbott ES		Colorado Springs SD11 Durango SD Aguilar RE-6 Pueblo D70 Cheraw SD Woodland Park SD Fremont RE-3 Custer C-1 Edison SD 54JT Mapleton SD Falcon SD49 Fowler R4J Woodland Park SD Academy SD20 Las Animas RE-1 East Otero SD LaVeta Dist.RE-2 Manzanola SD 3J Colorado Springs SD11 Durango SD 9-R Falcon SD49 Cortez RE-1 Colorado Springs SD11 Colorado Springs SD11 Holly SD RE-3 Sierra Grande Widefield SD3 Swink SD Widefield SD3

SCHOOL

New Mexico SCHOOL DISTRICT

Bernalillo ES                                                        Bernalillo
Blanco ES                                                            Bloomfield
Gallina ES                                                            Jemez Mtn
Pojoaque Valley Intermediate School         Pojoaque Valley SD

 

SCHOOL		Wyoming SCHOOL DISTRICT
Hillcrest ES		Campbell County

 

(Note: This web page is based upon work supported by NASA under Grant Number NNX10AD92G.  Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of CCESSE and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.)