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Challenger Center Network
Challenger Center Network
Earth Odyssey: Simulated Mission
Earth Odyssey: Simulated Mission
Challenger Center is a leading STEM education nonprofit organization that develops and delivers simulation-based STEM programs to students at Challenger Learning Centers and in classrooms.
Challenger Center is a leading STEM education nonprofit organization that develops and delivers simulation-based STEM programs to students at Challenger Learning Centers and in classrooms.
Expressed Need:
A success-driven, two-hour learning experience that communicates Earth science content targeting eighth-grade students through realistic, hands-on experiences, focusing effort on four of eight student teams.
Project Planning
Project Planning
Challenges
Challenges
Ensure approachable, relevant, and accurate Earth-science content curated for 8th-grade students
Present content that excites and challenges learners
Incorporate pre-designed, digital Interactives
Ensure the mission meets learner and Center needs
Maintain engagement for misaligned student teams with no line item in the budget
Support teachers need for classroom-connected activities
Solutions
Solutions
Include SMEs from Challenger Network and in-field professionals, and an external text editor
Task-focused digital tools paired with hands-on activities
Use sequence and scaffolding to support learners
Robust testing in two group phases 1) Flight Directors, 2) students
Develop supplemental activities that are not team-specific, utilizing materials from other missions
Curate a series of mission extensions in a document
Resources and Assets
Resources and Assets
CLC Resources
ToolBuilder - Proprietary authoring for learner interfaces (tools)
Production environment - testing space for learner tools
Development team for tool plugins (complex interactives)
SME review panel
Student test groups
NASA video and still images
Asset creation
PowerPoint - for background images
Canva assets selected by the organization
Mission Records
Learner Support
Predictive participation - a framework that reduces cognitive demand for the user
Read-Aloud feature
Reactive glossary terms
Product Examples
Product Examples
Example of a supplemental activty
Example of a supplemental activty
DRAFT - Priority Protocol - Circuits.pdfTeach resource for extending mission into the classroom
Teach resource for extending mission into the classroom
DRAFT EO Pre_Post Mission Activities.pdfStudent guide for hands-on activity and data collection
Student guide for hands-on activity and data collection
Mission Record_ EO WX SC - Aerosol Data Collection_Arc 1.pdfLearner station content not available due to propriatary nature
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