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Parents and Educators
NASA's 7th Annual
Virtual Take Our Daughters To Work Day
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NASA invites you to meet the women who have changed the
way the world works and helped create the American Spirit. In anticipation
of the Centennial of Flight celebrations, this year's events will
focus on the many accomplishments women have made to the NASA legacy
and their contributions to flight, aeronautics and space.
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Thursday, April 25, 2002
Join our live, interactive events all day!
Parents and educators
The activities begin on Monday 4/22 when students can join our Future
Flight and Astronaut Video Contests. Then spend some time researching
the featured mentors and prepare for the activities on Thursday, 4/25,
which includes a day long forum, hourly webchats and webcasts.
Complete Schedule
Objectives and Standards
Lesson Plan
Technology Resources
Career Resources
Additional Resources
The following are suggested activities that you can do with your students
in conjunction with the many activities on NASA Quest for Take Our Daughters
to Work Day.
Objectives and Standards
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Objectives
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Education Standards
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Evaluation Activities
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- Students will create a trading card of a NASA technology with
an explanation of what it does and how it helps people.
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NSES
E1, E2
ITEA
1
2061 Benchmark 3A
ISTE 3, 4, 5,
6
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- Students will create a trading card of a NASA career they learned
about.
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NSES G1
ISTE 3, 4, 5,
6
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- Have students gather information from webcasts, chats, the forum
and links.
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Lesson Plan
Before the Web events
- If you have never participated in a chat or forum, review What is a Chat? What is a Forum?
- If you’ve never participated in a webcast,
review What is a Webcast? And download RealPlayer
- Explain to students that Thursday, April 26, 2001 is Take Our Daughter’s
To Work Day which is a day for students to learn about what adults do
at their jobs. This year’s them is Technology Innovations. Since
not all students can go to work with their parents, students can visit
NASA virtually!
- Tell students that they will learn about people and careers at NASA
and the new technologies they are developing to help people AND that
they’ll actually get to ask them questions!
- Tell students that their goal will be to identify one or more technologies
developed at NASA and explain how it has or can help people. They will
also need to research at least one NASA career. Explain that they will
create a trading card about one NASA career they learn about and a trading
card about one NASA technology and how it helps people. (Hand-out trading
card templates)
- Explain that before they can participate in the online events, they
need to review the bio or bios of the person or people they will be
talking to so that they can ask good questions and so that they don’t
ask them any questions that they’ve already answered. (NASA people
are very busy).
- Have students review the bio(s) and with a partner, come up with
3 good questions that they could ask about the technology they are developing
and they’re career. (You may want to use the Chat Question Generator
to assist in this process)
- Discuss with group who the person is and what they do. List questions
on overhead/ whiteboard. Prioritize the top 5-10 questions.
During the Web events
- Have students post their questions in the chats,
webcasts and forum. (See the NASA Occupations
Chat Lesson which includes suggestions on how to use Quest technologies
for different computer logistics.)
- Students may also want to Technology Resource
links on NASA Spinoff Technologies. These are technologies developed
by NASA that have had practical applications in society aside from their
usefulness for aerospace and space research.
After the Web events
- Have students enter the information they found in the trading card
templates. Have them draw the technology or career they chose or download
and print a picture from the Web.
- Have students share and trade their cards. Have students explain what
problem their chosen technology helps to solve. Have them explain why
they chose the career they chose and what interests them about the career.
Categorize technologies and careers as a class.
- You may want to use the Debrief
to help students debrief on what they learned from their experience
on NASA Quest.
Technology Resources
Career Resources
- Career Lesson Plan
This site has an online and downloadable complete lesson plan on NASA
occupations to accompany any of the interactive web chats, webcasts,
and forum. Objectives, major concepts, needed supplies and equipment,
preparation and procedure, and evaluation is included.
Additional Resources
- COPPA
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. While we develop and encourage
interactivity in learning, we strive to ensure the online safety and
privacy of our users. NASA Quest is committed to complying fully with
the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). The Web
site assures the privacy of collected information in accordance with
the NASA Privacy Policy and the NASA Quest COPPA Policy. All of our
interactive web chats, webcasts, and forums are moderated. You will
notice a short delay in submitting a question or comment due to the
fact that we review each dialogue before posting to the web.
- Teaching Tips Ideas and suggestions
for creative ways to integrate the Women of NASA interactive project
into your teaching and learning.
- Additional NASA Links This repository
provides information on obtaining photos, speakers and appearances,
Space Camp info., FAQ and other helpful links.
- ERC Forum
This forum is a closed forum and only ERC Educational Technology Conference
attendees may enter.
Questions and comments about this event and other Women of NASA events
can be sent to: tkrieg@quest.arc.nasa.gov
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