Engineering byDesign A STEM and Aerospace Partnership with NASA and the First Educator Astronaut in

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Engineering byDesignA STEM and Aerospace
Partnership with NASA and the First Educator
Astronaut in Space
5th Annual Career Clusters Institute June 11,
2007 Phoenix, Arizona
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Human Exploration Project (HEP) Summary

• ITEA is working with NASA to develop curricular
  units for use at elementary, middle, and high
  schools.
• (2) Elementary School
• (4) Middle School
• (4) High School

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Common Characteristics of Units

• Units will resonate with the NASA vision.
• Units will coordinate with the larger system of
  ITEA educational resources.
• Unit content will be articulated across grade
  levels.
• Unit context will reflect real-world delivery of
  technological literacy in the classroom.
• Units will contribute to a broad student
  understanding of science, technology,
  engineering, and mathematics.

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• 5E Lesson Planning Format
• Engagement
• Exploration
• Explanation
• Extension
• Evaluation

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Content and Design of Units Will

• Articulate big ideas consistent with the
  backwards design educational model.
• Incorporate student assessment criteria and
  rubrics.
• Include learning activities with embedded
  evidence gathering.
• Identify and make use of available resources.
• Include strategies to teachers for
  implementation.

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Human Exploration Project (HEP)Designing Human
ExplorationPeople, Education, and Technology

• Phase I
• 3 Units
• Elementary, Middle, High School
• Living and Working on the Lunar Surface
• Phase II
• 4 Units
• Middle and High School
• Transportation

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Designing Human Exploration

• Unit Titles Phase I, Energy and Power
• Elementary Moon Power
• Middle Human Exploration
• High NASA Project Management

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Designing Human Exploration

• Unit Titles Phase II, Transportation
• Middle Transportation Systems and Space
• Middle Transportation and Space
• High NASA Integrated Transportation Systems
• High Transportation and Space Reuse and Recycle

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Designing Human Exploration

• Unit Titles STS-118
• Elementary Moon Munchies
• Middle Packing Up for the Moon
• High Design Challenge Lunar Growth Chamber

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STS-118Design Challenge

• Phase I Design Challenge
• Design Build Track
• Design Evaluate Track
• Phase II Seed Experiment

By engineers for future engineers and
technologists
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NASA Education and STS-118

• Presentation to Careers Clusters Institute
• June 11, 2007
• Patricia Currier

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Elementary/ Secondary Education
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NASA Education

• NASA Education Office
• Aeronautics Mission Directorate
• Exploration Systems Mission Directorate
• Science Mission Directorate
• Space Operations Mission Directorate
• Ten NASA Centers
• Education Coordinating Committee
• Human resources and workforce development
• External relations
• Public affairs
• Legislative affairs

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STS-118

• Space Shuttle Endeavour
• Launch No Earlier than August 9, 2007
• Crew
• Scott Kelly, Commander
• Charlie Hobaugh, Pilot
• Tracy Caldwell, Mission Specialist
• Al Drew, Mission Specialist
• Rick Mastracchio, Mission Specialist
• Barbara Morgan, Mission Specialist
• Dave Williams, Mission Specialist, CSA
• Mission Objectives
• ISS Crew Change
• ISS Assembly
• Gyroscope change

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Educator Astronauts

• First Flight of an Educator Astronaut
• Barbara R. Morgan
• McCall-Donnelly Elementary
• 1985 Backup Teacher in Space
• 1998 Educator Astronaut
• Technical Responsibilities
• Operating robotic arm to install S5 Truss
• Equipment transfer
• Educational Responsibilities
• Education Downlink activities
• Capture video and interviews
• Later lesson development
• Educator Astronauts
• Joe Acaba, Ricky Arnold,
  Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger

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Education Payloads

• 2 Plant Growth Chambers will fly as a payload
  on the STS-118 mission.
• Seeds will be planted in the PGCs prior to
  launch and transferred to ISS
• PGCs will be monitored by the Expedition
  15 Crew and returned on the STS-120
• 35 pounds of Cinnamon Basil Seeds
• Students are challenged to design and build
  a plant growth system for the moon.
• 100,000 packets of flown basil seeds will be
  available for teachers

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Engineering Design Challenge
www.nasa.gov/education/plantchallenge

• Challenge
• Registration info
• Background info
• Evaluation
• Activities
• Career highlights
• Related readings
• Science experiment guidelines (NSTA)

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Engineering Design Challenge

• Phase 1
• Developed in cooperation with the International
  Technology Education Association (ITEA).
• Based on national standards in technology,
  science, and mathematics.
• Two Tracks available within each grade band (K-4,
  5-8, 9-12)
• Track 1 Design/Assess
• Track 2 Design/Build/Assess

• Phase 2
• Teachers register to receive a packet of flown
  basil seeds and a control set of basil seeds.
• Extensions for using the basil seeds in a plant
  growth chamber will be available on the NASA
  Portal for each grade band (K-4, 5-8, 9-12).
• Teachers will complete a feedback/ evaluation
  form and print out a certificate of participation.

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Other Education Plans

• Informal Education application of EDC
• NASA Fit Explorer
• NASA Pennant Design Challenge
• Student Observation Network
• Education Downlinks
• Media activities
• Education Launch Conference
• New activities posted to NASA Education website
  (engineering, space weather, habitats,
  gyroscopes)
• NASA Center-based workshops, training, etc.
• Opportunities with partners
• www.nasa.gov/sts118
• and click Education Resources

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The Design Challenges An Overview

• NASA and the International Technology Education
  Association (ITEA)

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STS-118A Standards-Based Elementary School Unit

• Kim Weaver
• St. Marys County Public Schools
• Benjamin Banneker Elementary School

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Unit Lessons

• Natural Resources on Earth
• Exploring the Moon
• Providing Light for Your Plants
• Watering Your Plants
• Designing the Growth Chamber
• Building a Lunar Growth Chamber

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Journal

• Develop and refine
• writing
• language skills

Engineering Portfolio

• sketches
• descriptions
• graphs

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NASA Materials Store

• Math skills enhanced
• coin recognition
• addition
• subtraction
• multiplication
• measurement

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Watering System

• syringes
• tubing
• plastic containers

• moisture
• nutrients

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Electrical Circuit
Providing warmth light
seed germination plant growth

• wire cutters
• drill
• screwdrivers
• hammers

• light sockets
• light bulbs
• wire
• screws

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Designing the Lunar Growth

• sketches
• sizes
• measurement
• label parts

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Building the Lunar Growth Chamber

• assembling subsystems
• fastening materials
• painting

• tools
• measurement

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Pause A Moment Lets See The Action!!!Moon
Munchies DVD
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STS-118Lunar Growth Chamber (LGC) Middle School
Activity

• Designing for a Human Presence on the Moon and
  Beyond

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Engagement
Students will identify and discuss - Conditions
are required for plant growth - Roles that plant
play in our environment

• Food
• Light
• CO2
• Water
• Proper Temperature
• Substrate for Roots

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Exploration
Students will read about and interpret data
concerning - The role of plants in life
support. - Food and Oxygen production as it
relates to light intensity
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Explanation

• Lunar environment and previous exploration
• Engineering design steps
• Characteristics of design
• It is a creative process
• There is no perfect design
• It leads to useful products and systems
• Review drawing and modeling techniques

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Extension
Design Track
Design and Build Track
Design a solution and document the steps taken to
arrive at the final plan. Final products will be
presented to the class.
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Scenario
NASA engineers have developed a plan for a lunar
outpost. The station will be established near the
Lunar South Pole and be inhabited by two
astronauts on a three-month mission.
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Cargo space on the Lunar Lander is extremely
limited.
All items must be designed to take up minimal
space.
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The mission requires that a plant growth chamber
be used to supplement the diet of the astronauts
during their stay.
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The Challenge
Design and develop a plant growth chamber that
will be used by astronauts to grow lettuce and
tomatoes as a dietary supplement on the moon.
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Criteria and Constraints

• The Lunar Growth Chamber (LGC) must be able to
  provide a growing area of ten square feet and
  have a delivery volume of three cubic feet or
  less.
• The LGC must be a separate, independent structure
  from the lunar station.
• The LGC must have systems that provide light,
  temperature control, water and nutrient delivery,
  and power.
• Placement and access to the chamber must make it
  possible for astronauts to tend and harvest crops
  without venturing out onto the lunar surface.

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Evaluation
Rubrics are used to evaluate participation,
design process, and presentation. Below
Target At Target
Above Target
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STS-118 High School Challenge

• Design and Critique
• Design and Build

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Two Challenges

• The Design and Critique Challenge
• Ten (10) day challenge
• Teachers and students without technology labs
• Ends with the Preliminary Design Review (PDR)
• The Design and Build Challenge
• Twenty (20) day challenge
• Teachers and students with technology labs
  available
• Continues after the PDR with the students
  constructing their working prototype

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Big Idea

• When humans begin to colonize space,
• they will need to grow their own food.

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Lesson 1 - Introduction

• The goal of all shuttle missions to complete
  construction of the ISS
• STS-118 First flight for Barbara Morgan
• One of her tasks work with a small growth
  chamber that will be left on the ISS
• On the moon and Mars, some supplies will need to
  be manufactured/grown in situ.
• Challenge is to design a growth chamber that can
  be used on the lunar surface to grow food for
  future astronauts.

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Lesson 2 Plant Choice

• Resources required to sustain plant life on the
  moon (available nutrients?)
• Identify best type of plants to grow on the moon
• Other requirements (light, temperature, radiation
  protection)

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Lesson 3 Design the Chamber

• List all the requirements for the chamber
  (lights, temperature, water, nutrients, air,
  radiation).
• How will the chamber arrive on the lunar surface
• Develop a plan Recommend plant species and
  requirements, descriptions, drawings, sketches,
  PowerPoints, and models
• Preliminary Design Review

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Lesson 4 Build the Chamber

• Identify materials and supplies
• Safety training to use the tools and equipment
• Sub-systems are required in a project of this
  size and complexity
• Test of sub-systems prior to assembly
• Test chamber with all systems
• Critical Design review (CDR)

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A National Standards-based Solution For Teaching
Learning EbD
Engineering byDesign Network
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Center to Advance the Teaching of Technology
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What Is Engineering byDesign?
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Alignment with
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Standards-Based Model Grades K-16
Endorsed by
ProBase and I3 NSF funded projects
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Engineering byDesign
Endorsed by
Engineering byDesign is endorsed by the States'
Career Clusters Initiative (2006). Endorsement
does not carry with it any legal, fiscal, policy
or other responsibility or liability by the
endorser for this product. Endorsement means the
product aligns to and supports the general
spirit, intent and goals of the States' Career
Clusters Initiative. Endorsement does not imply
priority or preference of any product.
www.careerclusters.org
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Emphasizing Big Ideas
Ideas we want students to get inside of and
retain after theyve forgotten many of the
details.
Based on Achieving Scientific Literacy From
Purpose to Practices by Roger W. Bybee
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We Must Begin at an Early Age!

• Invention, Innovation, and Inquiry (I3)
• Grades 5-6
• Innovation Inches, Feet and Hands
• Invention The Invention Crusade
• Manufacturing The Fudgeville Crisis
• Construction Buildings and Beams
• Transportation Across the United States
• Communication From Print to Radio
• Power and Energy The Wizards of Willing Wind
• Inquiry The Ultimate School Bag
• Technological Systems Creating Mechanical Motion
• Design Toying with Technology

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Middle School Program

• Exploring Technology
• Technology in Motion
• Design Engineering
• Human Exploration
• Greenhouse Design

• Technological Systems
• Definition of a System
• Systems Interaction
• Systems Evolution
• Systems Adjustments
• Systems Failure
• System Trends

Grade 6
Grade 8

• Invention and Innovation
• Intro to Invention/Innovation
• Core Concepts of Technology
• Problem-Solving Design, RD, Troubleshooting,
  Experimentation
• Lets Invent Innovate
• Impacts of Invention Innovation
• Transportation

Grade 7
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High School Program
Grade 9

• Foundations of Technology
• History of Technology
• Relationships Among Technologies
• Engineering Design
• Manufacturing
• Construction Technologies
• Energy Power Technologies
• Information Communication
• Systems Thinking Putting it all Together

• Technological Issues/Impacts
• Recognizing Tech Issues
• Sources of Tech Issues
• Examining Tech Issues
• Addressing Tech Issues
• Predicting Tech Issues

Grade 10-12

• Technological Design
• Systems Optimization
• Technology/Society Ethics
• Concurrent Engineering
• Modeling Problem-solving
• Design

Grade 10-12
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High School Advanced Technology Program
Grade 10-12

• Advanced Technological Applications
• Information Communication
• Agricultural Related Biotechnologies
• Entertainment Recreation
• Medical Technologies

Grade 10-12

• Advanced Design Applications
• Manufacturing
• Construction
• Power Energy
• Transportation

Capstone Course

• Engineering Design
• Principles of Design
• Engineering Resources
• Engineering Design Process
• Project Management
• Project Management NASA Style

Grade 11-12
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Professional Development Creating a Community of
Learners
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Liftoff to Technological (STEM) Literacy!
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The Summer 2007 Workshops

• NASA and the International Technology Education
  Association (ITEA)

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• The health of the U.S. economy . . . Will depend
  not only on science, math, and engineering
  professionals but also on a populace that can
  effectively assimilate a wide range of new tools
  and technologies.
• U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century
  Report, 2001, p. 39

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• Understanding is crucial to public support of
  the NASA vision . . . . Citizens will be better
  equipped to understand and use technologies if
  they are technologically literate themselves.
• ITEA, 2004

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EbD Curriculum Specialists
Now available to do workshops in YOUR State!
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www.teachstem.net www.engineeringbydesign.org

• Barry Burke bburke_at_iteaconnect.org
• Shelli Meade smeade_at_iteaconnect.org
• Patty Currier patricia.a.currier_at_nasa.gov