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Highlighted Activities
Scheduled for Academic Year 00/01
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covers atmospheric and non-atmospheric flight
as it pertains to designing an aircraft. The classroom materials included
in the "Teachers Desk" section provide a problem based learning approach
and demonstrates how these materials can be integrated into a 5-12
curriculum.
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Chatting with NASA People
ATO QuestChats
are key to the connection between students and NASA Aerospace Team members.
These chats are scheduled regularly and involve an hour in which these
"experts" share their valuable time to help inspire and motivate today's
youth. Additionally, we maintain a schedule of QuestChats available through
all Quest projects.
Past
but always usable
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Design
a Mars Airplane
This event included both a forum
and a webcast. View the
archive of the forum with Andy
Hahn, Peter Gage and Steve
Smith. View
the
archive of the webcast with Andy Hahn.
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Introduce
a Girl to Engineering Day
Aerospace Engineering with Estella Hernandez
View
the archive of this special Web cast. Estella
Hernandez explained what an engineer is in this Web cast with
video of NASA Ames engineers at work. |
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Atmospheric Flight: an introduction
to Planetary Flight
View the archive
of this very special Web cast. Steve Smith, coauthor of Planetary
Flight explained flying in an atmosphere. In order to understand flight
on other planets we need to understand flight here on Earth. Steve
reviewed the Four Forces: Lift, Drag, Weight and Thrust. This is the
perfect introduction to the Planetary Flight Project with a sneak
preview of some of the curriculum and lesson plans. |
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Design,
Test and Manufacture of a Planetary Entry Vehicle Model
View the archive
of this very special Web cast. Meet the engineers, machinists and
test engineers involved in the manufacture and test of planetary
entry vehicle models. See video of the lathes and ballistics range.
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Thermal Protection Chats - a series of biographies,
journals and chats about the researchers working on thermal protection
here at NASA Ames. |
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The "Regimes
of Flight" is a new resource for teachers and students about
flight at different speeds. This is targeted for grades 4-8. You will
find background material, lesson plans,chats and contests!! |
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A New Regime
by Susanne Ashby is included! This is the story of Chuck Yeager's
flight that broke the Sound Barrier! It has movies, interactive
vocabulary, and an audio version. For more information see
http://quest.nasa.gov/aero/events/regimes/new.html
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The
Aerodynamics of Things That Spin A WebCast /Chat from NASA
Ames Research Center featuring Dr. Earl Duque and Joe Jordan . Held
Wednesday, December 1, 1999. View the archive of a fun-filled hour
of demonstrations, videos and explanations about things that spin.
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TCA-5: The Low Speed Test of the High Speed
Civil Transport Technology Concept Airplane Chats, Profiles
and Journals relating to the wind tunnel test. |
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Wright
Flyer Online aviation history met the 1990's. At this
Web site you will learn about the Wright Flyer Project, in which a
full-sized replica of the 1903 Wright Flyer, flown in the first-ever
powered flight, was tested in a wind tunnel at NASA Ames Research
Center. You and your students can learn about its trailing vortex
through this exciting Web site.
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The Right Flyer
A glider design project in which classrooms collaborated with one
another.
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The Supersonic
Transport Wind Tunnel Test A series of journals about the
wind tunnel test of a supersonic civil transport.
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FUTURE
will offer an in-depth look at air traffic management
and NASA's research into aviation operations systems and safety. Students
will learn about airport design, aviation navigation, meteorology for aviation,
communication, the air traffic management systems, and future flight research
through interactive tutorials and simulations. Students, in grades 9-12,
will have opportunities for online chats with NASA Researchers, air traffic
controllers, pilots and others involved in the aviation industry. They can
also view research facilities such as the Future Flight Central and the
Crew Vehicle Research Facility through Web casts.
A series of online collaborations will also be offered.
For example students will be given an air traffic management scenario
to resolve by collaborating with other online students. After students
pass a series of online certification quizzes, teachers can sign up their
classes or after school groups to participate in the air traffic control.
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