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Parents and Educators
NASA's 6th Annual
Virtual Take Our Daughters To Work Day
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NASA invites you to interact with our nation's
coolest, brightest, most intriguing and talented women and men who
develop and utilize breakthrough technologies that benefit our world!
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Thursday, April 26, 2001
Join our live, interactive events all day!
Parents and educators
The activities begin on Monday 4/9 when students can submit their best
question to astronaut Susan Helms who is residing on the International
Space Station and submit their idea for a "yet to be developed" Technological
Innovation. Activities for Thursday, 4/26 include 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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