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On-Site Missions:
The Dream of Space Travel Comes Alive
Many children dream of exploring Space. The Challenger Learning Center brings that dream to life. When classes of students visit a Challenger Learning Center, they climb aboard a space station, conduct scientific experiments, and work together to solve problems.

During CLC missions, students return to the moon, voyage to mars, or explore Earth from space. Students in Mission Control direct the critical activities of the students on board the space station-navigation, maintaining life support systems, communicating, or conducting research. The students experience the critical thinking, leadership, cooperation, and problem solving challenges necessary for mission success.

Bringing Space into the Classroom
Advances in technology and connectivity allow our Wheeling CLC to offer new programs that bring Challenger missions into your classroom. These programs - called "e-Missions" -use the Internet or other distance learning technology to create a live link between the students and our flight directors at "Mission Control." Before each e-Mission, students complete studies, hands-on activities, and practice that opens doors into science and math discovery. On mission day, they for teams of "experts," examine real-time data, analyze it, and make their recommendations to Mission Control. Challenger's flight directors guide the students to a successful solution of each crisis situation.

During e-Mission: Operation Montserrat, students get data about the erupting volcano's seismic activity. They also track the hurricane approaching this Caribbean island. To outwit possible disaster, students must solve the critical problems facing the islanders. They don't just learn, they "live" through a natural disaster's Earth-changing power.

During e-Mission: Space Station Alpha, students help Mission Control guide the Astronauts through a dangerous solar storm. The Space Station's electrical systems, life-support systems, and communications systems are jeopardized. The Astronauts live are threatened. Will the student Mission Specialists successfully manage the Space Station's technology and protect the Astronauts?

With one Internet hook-up and three computers, this program can be conducted in classrooms in the most remote locations across North America. The number of missions available is unlimited. We can reach into every middle school and high school in North America.

Developed by the Challenger Learning Center at Wheeling Jesuit University, e-Missions offer teachers and students a chance to use their classroom technology in new ways. Science teachers, educational researchers, and subject matter experts designed the programs. Teachers and students from Boston, Mass., and Charleston, West Virginia, to Anchorage, Alaska have tested and enjoyed them.


• Find out what CLC at WJU has planned FOR YOU!
• Find out about CLC's summer camps, and how to sign up.
• Each year, we host several corporate challenges. Sign your company up today.
• Book a mission, and get your students involved with Challenger Learning Center.

"I liked the fact that I got to actually feel what it is like to be a scientist."

From Marlington Middle
March 21, 2002

 
 
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