Nearly a decade ago, the Montreal School of Aerospace Trades became part of a massive education reform that takes most career education in the province out of comprehensive high schools and invests millions of dollars in specialized vocational schools. Through education-industry partnerships, these schools helping to change the image of vocational…

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center along with their partners at other NASA centers, and in private industry, are designing and beginning to develop the next generation of spacecraft to transport cargo, equipment, and human explorers to space. These vehicles are part of the Constellation…

In order to improve student learning in an advanced course in aeronautics, lectures are replaced with more student-centred sessions based on peer learning. The course is organised in student teams, with the main task of delivering lecture requests for full class discussions. For the same reason, the written theory exam is replaced by a peer review…

In January 2006, the President announced a new civilian space policy focusing on exploration. As part of its preparations to implement that policy, NASA asked the NRC to explore long-range science and technology workforce needs to achieve the space exploration vision, identify obstacles to filling those needs, and put forward solutions to those…

This unit is designed to stimulate interest in math, engineering, aerospace, and physics through the exploration of rocketry science. It serves as a ready source of information dealing with the subject of rocketry and provides directions for completing a variety of hands-on rocketry science experiments, including the design, construction, and…

The results of an opinion questionnaire sent to the personnel directors of 28 domestic airlines indicate that the majority of the respondents feel that an aviation minor would be valuable to prospective airline employees. Includes comments on what subject areas the respondents feel would be important in an aviation minor. (MLH)

Emphasizes the beneficial application of tools developed as a result of the space program in communications and education. Explains the use of a communication satelite, the ATS-6, in telemedicine and individualized instruction. (GS)

Provides excerpts from a Teacher's Guide that accompanies an aviation coloring book for children. (MLH)

Provides lesson plans for activities involving a model aircraft laboratory and ground-based surveying. (MLH)

Presents a collection of humorous statements made by elementary school youngsters on reports and tests pertaining to the aerospace sciences. (MLH)

Advocates the utilization of aerospace activities in elementary school classrooms to increase motivation, to integrate learning in meaningful patterns, and to foster true inquiry. (CP)

Describes activities to demonstrate Bernoulli's Principle, the effect of vibration on reaction time, formation of craters on the moon and weather simulation. (CP)

Describes a classroom organized as a self-contained closed spaceship which provides an opportunity for individualized learning based on student interests and a chance to wrestle with the problems that would arise on an interstellar journey in a spaceship. (BR)

Describes the newly revised Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps (AFROTC) program which emphasizes selectivity, young women in the officer candidate program, and focuses on management techniques, psychology and leadership. The monetary advantages are detailed which include scholarships, free flight training and other benefits. (BR)