The Instructional Model:
Developmentally Sequenced

Modified by NASA Quest for Space Team Online's
International Space Station Series

Below is an overview of how the Internet Workshop can help you become familiar with Space Team Online (STO) and to use the monthly International Space Station programs as a unique learning tool in your classroom.

The model suggests four steps:

1.) LEARNING from Colleagues (continuous)

• Review archives of previous STO activities
• Join the "updates" mail list: lurking or participation
• Join the Quest "discussion" list: lurking or participation

• Review the links to STO resources that are related to the upcoming ISS activities.
• Assign the activity suggested to your students or develop an activity requiring students to use the site resources.
• Assign the activity to be completed during the week.
• Have students share their work, questions, and new insights during Internet Workshop.
  • A place to start the Internet Workshop with your classroom is by sharing something new you recently learned using the Internet and invite others to respond.
  • You may also want to share something you are still trying to figure out and invite others to respond.

3.) Internet PROJECT with Internet Workshop

There are two different ways to conduct an STO related project for the Internet Workshop:

• Plan a project for an upcoming unit in your classroom and write a project description:
  • Summary
  • Learning goals
  • Expectations
  • Timeline
  Invite others to participate using the STO mail lists.
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• Join one of the STO collaborative projects.
  • The STO collaborative project will be listed as a resource from the program web site.

• Complete the project, using Internet Workshop as a forum in your own class for working on the project and exchanging information within your classroom.
• You may also elect to use one of the Quest discussion lists or chats to share with other collaborating classrooms.

• Use STO resources to formulate a question.
• Search the STO and related pages to develop the question and form a hypothosis.
• Use the data collected to analyze new theories.
• Compose questions that can be answered by using NASA Quest interactive events.
• Share the results with the classroom and/or others participating online.