This Blog
is to enable my past, present and future students to share my learning journey
at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in
Huntsville, Alabama, USA, where I will be involved in activities that NASA
astronauts and support crews would experience in their training.
Firstly I
wish to apologise to my own children, Connor, Curtis, Ciara, Casey and Cameron
for not being able to take you with me...., but I will bring back some goodies
for you (not the same I know!). I would also like to thank the Nambour
Rotary Club, Education Queensland’s Science and Engineering Education Centre
and the University of the Sunshine Coast who has very kindly funded this
amazing scholarship.
I am so looking forward
to a packed week of excitement. Educator Academy is going to be the ultimate
experience, and I can not wait to come back and bring the excitement of science
into my past and future classrooms! The next time I launch rockets with my
students, I want them to go off with a bang and not just a fizz!
Please
feel free to comment or ask me questions throughout my week, remember to
include your name, Year level and your school.
Mrs
Butler
7G at Talara Primary College wishes you a safe Blast Off! We look forward to following this exciting journey. (Casey's Class)
ReplyDeleteHi Ciara's mum ...
ReplyDelete8H at Meridan State College would like to wish you all the best for your trip.
We will post some questions in the days to come.
Travel safe!
Ms. Keller and 8H
From Lienna: glad you arrived safely, Sheva. Really hope you enjoy yourself and learn something too, which I'm sure you will. This is all very new to me and might not reach you, but at least I'm giving it a try. You could ask the astronaut what would be the subjects and pastimes a budding astronaut should study at school that would help him into the space program.
ReplyDeleteDear Mrs Butler
ReplyDeleteWhat subjects would student need to work hard at - if they wanted to become an Astronaut.
Lienna
What a great question.
DeleteIn primary school all subjects are important. Don Thomas said that although he found learning difficult, he knew that he needed good grades if he wanted to realise his dream of being an Astronaut. In High School he knew that he would need to have strong grades in both Maths and Science.
Future Astronauts will have a whole host of qualifications, with different specialists being needed to make new habitats on the moon, or and astroid or even on Mars. Now Don knows that he will never be one of the those Astronauts, but the guys who are in school now, such as those students at Talara, Meridan, Our Lady of the Rosary, Kawana and Unity, well any one of them could be a future Astronaut heading out to the stars.
Try really hard in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths and we might see one of you guys out there!
From Jacqueline in Wheaton, Illinois :
ReplyDeleteWhy did the Space Shuttle missions end? When did the last shuttle fly into space?
The final space shuttle mission, STS-135, sadly ended July 21, 2011. America now has it eyes set on Mars and perhaps a station on an asteroid. The space shuttle missions ended due to money! It costs a lot of money to send a shuttle into space! So at the moment American Astronauts are car pooling or rocket pooling with Russian Cosmonauts, by hitching a ride! This still costs a lot of money!!!! $75,000,000
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