NASA’s BEST Program: A Pathway to North Carolina’s Essential Standards 39th Annual NCAGT Conference February 28 – March 1st, 2013 North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Donna Kenestrick

Session Objectives: By the end of today’s session, participants will be able to:  Describe NASA’s BEST Program  Summarize how BEST activities can be used to teach the Science Essential Standards in K-5 classrooms in North Carolina  Demonstrate and plan for the classroom use of at least one activity from the BEST Program and explain how it encompasses the North Carolina Science Essential Standards

Agenda:  Objectives and Agenda  Introductions  NCDPI – who we are, what we do…..  NASA and STEM Education  NC Science Essential Standards K-5  An overview of the BEST Program  How BEST can be used to teach K-5 Science  Activity:  Review and Evaluations

Housekeeping: Un-answered ? Take it to the “Parking Lot” Take a break when you must Evaluation will occur at the end of the workshop Your input is essential and valued! Parking Lot

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NASA & STEM Education - NASA has a long history of supporting Science and STEM education - Since 2007, NASA has had a MoU agreement concerning STEM education with the NSF - Its purpose: “advance the scientific and technical capabilities of the nation”

NASA & NSF - STEM Education MoU Three key goals:  jointly support the best projects that advance STEM education and workforce proficiency  Improve the national knowledge base regarding scientific literacy, human and social capital, workforce development, infrastructure, and competitiveness and innovation  Produce a workforce that reflects the diversity of the US population

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North Carolina’s Essential Standards  Approved by North Carolina state board of education since February, 2010

Highlights of Essential Standards Aligned to national standards

Highlights of Essential Standards Aligned to NC Environmental Literacy Plan

Highlights of Essential Standards Aligned to Earth Science Literacy Principles

North Carolina: Leading in Standards Development North Carolina is one of 26 lead states in the development of the Next Generation Science Standards

NASA’s BEST Overview  Activities teach engineering design process  Focus on human return to the Moon  Activities focus on investigating the moon, traveling to and on the Moon, and living and working on the Moon

NASA’s BEST links  Video series:

NASA’s BEST Overview  Build a Satellite to Orbit the Moon  Launch Your Satellite  Prepare for a Mission  Design a Lunar Buggy  Design a Landing Pod  Design a Crew Exploration Vehicle  Launch Your CEV  Design a Lunar Thermos  Build a Solar Oven

Teaching with BEST in K-5  Students in teams  Emphasis on design process  Concrete  Uses everyday materials  Can be used to address state and national standards

NASA’s BEST Correlations to NCES K-5  K.P.1.2 Give examples of different ways objects and organisms move (to include falling to the ground when dropped): (Straight, Zigzag, Round and round, Fast and slow)  K.P.2.2 Compare the observable physical properties of different kinds of materials (clay, wood, cloth, paper, etc) from which objects are made and how they are used.  1.P.1.1 Explain the importance of a push or pull to changing the motion of an object.  1.P.1.3 Predict the effect of a given force on the motion of an object, including balanced forces.  3.P.1.1 Infer changes in speed or direction resulting from forces acting on an object.  3.P.1.3 Explain the effects of earth’s gravity on the motion of any object on or near the earth.  5.P.1.1 Explain how factors such as gravity, friction, and change in mass affect the motion of objects.  5.P.1.4 Predict the effect of a given force or a change in mass on the motion of an object.

BEST Activity: Launch Your Satellite Students prepare a launch vehicle to power a satellite developed in Build A Satellite to orbit the Moon. The constraints vary over grade bands with K-2 being asked to focus on how to attach the satellite to the launch assembly, 3-5 constrained by altering an attachment length.

BEST Activity The Challenge: Your mission is to design and build a launch vehicle to send a payload to the Moon. The launch vehicle is a balloon rocket assembly. Your payload is the satellite you built at the last session (water bottle). Your team must also determine how to attach your satellite to the balloon assembly and then launch it down a fishing wire.

BEST Activity: Ask  Introductory Reading…..

BEST Activity: Imagine & Plan  Plan and draw…..

BEST Activity: Create  Construct your model…..

Launch Vehicle test: Experiment

BEST Activity: Improve  Revision and closing challenge

Activity Take-Away Instructions Join a table group. Discuss and list strategies you have for how you might use the BEST activity in your work with students.

Group Share

Session Evaluations

Adjournment