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Walach, Michael – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2021
This article describes the NASA-Funded Space Grant Project BOREALIS: "Balloon Outreach, Research, Exploration, and Landscape Imaging System." BOREALIS conducts high-altitude balloon flights to the "edge of space" with flights typically reaching 100,000 feet and a current record flight in the summer of 2020 that reached 126,000…
Descriptors: Aerospace Education, Engineering, Engineering Technology, Design
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Baldioli, Shannon; Edson, Shauna; Grady, Ashley; Matos, Nefertiti – Journal of Museum Education, 2022
The development of accessible elements in museum exhibitions is an important pursuit that needs a well-defined process. Educators at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, working with accessibility professionals and blind or low-vision user/experts, discovered the value of co-designing tactile models with the people who would eventually…
Descriptors: Museums, Exhibits, Space Sciences, Aerospace Education
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Zimmerman, Heather Toomey; Grills, Katharine Ellen; McKinley, Zachary; Kim, Soo Hyeon – Information and Learning Sciences, 2022
Purpose: The researchers conducted a collective case study to investigate how families engaged in making activities related to aerospace engineering in six pop-up makerspace programs held in libraries and one museum. The purpose of this paper is to support families' engagement in design tasks and engineering thinking, three types of discussion…
Descriptors: Aerospace Education, Family Involvement, Shared Resources and Services, Libraries