Challenge: My team had to try to get lesson plan figured out, I liked it how we were able to get some goods and we are get progress. Tomorrow is going to help put most of our questions to rest, when we get to Raft we will be able to know what things we can put into our lesson plan
really there were no negatives and only positives.
We been given a lot of tours of some labs and they have been really cool. I think my top two labs were the flight simulator and the filter lab. I also think it was awesome to have Fresno State alumni to present to us. MAKES ME FEEL PROUD TO BE A FRESNO STATE BULLDOG!
Saturday, June 26, 2010
NASA Ames PSTI June 15th
Challenge: The goals today for my team were to get finish our mission patches and create more details on our lesson plan. So far I can't complain I am working with some great people who are open minded and have smart ideas. I think this will be a great experience for me, I am little dazed to actually believe that I m living at NASA facility; I mean only the best and the brightest get to go here and well I m here.
Can't believe it -Believe it !
It was really cool to see the flight simulation laboratory and even more cool to see the get some gifts for my family
Quote of the day: "This place is AWESOME !!!!
Can't believe it -Believe it !
It was really cool to see the flight simulation laboratory and even more cool to see the get some gifts for my family
Quote of the day: "This place is AWESOME !!!!
NASA PSTI June 18th 2010
Challenge: Today the task for my team was to find the supplies that we needed for our lesson plan. For the last four days we have been gave each other great ideas and I feel that we have the lesson already done; however we have came to agree that we need to know what the Raft store has to offer in the means of supplies.
We ended up finding ice chests to represent our escape pods, we also find cardboard, paper sheets, and plastic sheeting to represent the building material that the students will be needing for their habitat.
Individual: I think I had some good ideas that shared with my group, some of those concepts were taken into thought of lesson plan and ideas were not. However I made some good progress for the day.
Positives: We all got involved in the search for supplies, really none of us got side track from our duties.
Negatives: It was a long day for us and there was point in time where we all could not decide what supplies were need for the lesson plan. However having long discussions we came to a conclusion we got the items that we needed.
Cool things: We got to see what awesome things inside the Raft store, and how low the prices were was really convenient.
For my team mates: we had a few stops in the road but we kept on trucking on now we are on our way to presenting a great lesson plan.
We ended up finding ice chests to represent our escape pods, we also find cardboard, paper sheets, and plastic sheeting to represent the building material that the students will be needing for their habitat.
Individual: I think I had some good ideas that shared with my group, some of those concepts were taken into thought of lesson plan and ideas were not. However I made some good progress for the day.
Positives: We all got involved in the search for supplies, really none of us got side track from our duties.
Negatives: It was a long day for us and there was point in time where we all could not decide what supplies were need for the lesson plan. However having long discussions we came to a conclusion we got the items that we needed.
Cool things: We got to see what awesome things inside the Raft store, and how low the prices were was really convenient.
For my team mates: we had a few stops in the road but we kept on trucking on now we are on our way to presenting a great lesson plan.
NASA Ames PSTI June 21st
Challenge: Today our challenge remained the same, we did get some work done however we are lacking in putting the final touches on our lesson plan. I must admit their are some members in my team who are more involved in the lesson plan than others but as team lead I am trying my best to get everyone on the same page of information.
Positives: The positives of today is that we are progressing forward through our lesson plan and making great adjustments.
Negatives; we are running out of time and we need to seal the deal on the lesson plan.
Cool Thing today: We were able to go to the visitor center and see all the cool and fun stuff it had to offer. The one thing I really liked was the awesome video that we got to see, I felt as if we were on a roller coaster ride and we were going through a tour in space.
My team mates
Kelly: I like that Kelly is also on task and I feel that she is the back bone of this group
Lauren & Elisa: I believe Lauren and Elisa are our engineers of the group, because they are always creating new and cool ideas for the lesson plan
Aaron: I like that Aaron is reliable and I know can depend on him to do his task
Elijah: Well so far I been doing the work that has been giving to me and I have been taking the steps to get not only myself involved with the work but also my team mates as well
Positives: The positives of today is that we are progressing forward through our lesson plan and making great adjustments.
Negatives; we are running out of time and we need to seal the deal on the lesson plan.
Cool Thing today: We were able to go to the visitor center and see all the cool and fun stuff it had to offer. The one thing I really liked was the awesome video that we got to see, I felt as if we were on a roller coaster ride and we were going through a tour in space.
My team mates
Kelly: I like that Kelly is also on task and I feel that she is the back bone of this group
Lauren & Elisa: I believe Lauren and Elisa are our engineers of the group, because they are always creating new and cool ideas for the lesson plan
Aaron: I like that Aaron is reliable and I know can depend on him to do his task
Elijah: Well so far I been doing the work that has been giving to me and I have been taking the steps to get not only myself involved with the work but also my team mates as well
NASA PSTI 2010 June 22nd
Challenge: Today my team's objective was to be able to complete our lesson so that we can be prepared for our mock presentation tomorrow. For the most part my team was on track and we put in small but important details into our lesson; however one thing that we struggled with was on the idea of maximum weight our students escape pod had to be.
In this part of the lesson plan our students have five minutes to escape the ISS(International Space Station) to a near by asteroid to avoid a crashing comet. They must take only supplies that are necessary for their survival and have a specific weight load in order for the pod to leave the ISS.
My team had careful thought this part through and we decided it would be a great idea if we add the weighting portion in this part of the lesson plan. We did this in order to get the mathematics concepts implemented into the lesson. The concept of having a total weight number in grams would be hard to figure out, but most of us have good a idea were maxuiam of grams should weight.
In class we learned a lot of cool stuff, we found the true scale of the solar system and created our own new websites. In most posters and maps of the solar system planets are depicted to be very close to each other, however as we learned today by modeling the sun in smaller sacle and exactly mearsuring the planets in of milimeters most of the planets are millions of miles away from each other( to make the story short it took us a quarter of mile to get the whole scale of the solar system). The website were very easy to make and it was cool that we received some tips on what to and what not to put on our websites.
The star party was awesome, I got to see the moon's craters and some planets but the one to see was Saturn.
Quote of the day:"squirrel"
In this part of the lesson plan our students have five minutes to escape the ISS(International Space Station) to a near by asteroid to avoid a crashing comet. They must take only supplies that are necessary for their survival and have a specific weight load in order for the pod to leave the ISS.
My team had careful thought this part through and we decided it would be a great idea if we add the weighting portion in this part of the lesson plan. We did this in order to get the mathematics concepts implemented into the lesson. The concept of having a total weight number in grams would be hard to figure out, but most of us have good a idea were maxuiam of grams should weight.
In class we learned a lot of cool stuff, we found the true scale of the solar system and created our own new websites. In most posters and maps of the solar system planets are depicted to be very close to each other, however as we learned today by modeling the sun in smaller sacle and exactly mearsuring the planets in of milimeters most of the planets are millions of miles away from each other( to make the story short it took us a quarter of mile to get the whole scale of the solar system). The website were very easy to make and it was cool that we received some tips on what to and what not to put on our websites.
The star party was awesome, I got to see the moon's craters and some planets but the one to see was Saturn.
Quote of the day:"squirrel"
Friday, June 25, 2010
NASA PSTI June 23rd 2010
Our mock trail was today, every group had their own run through of their lesson plan. My group stayed up into the late hours of night. I wanted to get a good night sleep but I knew preparation for the lesson plan was more important. The two group members who really stepped it up were Kelly Hinojosa and Lauren Cargill(without these two members I don't know of the lesson plan would have all the great details that it did). I have to state that the rest of my team did their part and took responsibility for the work they had done.
We had some negative thing for today but it wasn't that bad. In the presentation of our lesson plan our evaluators mention that we seemed less confident with ourselves than other teams, and that we seemed rushed.
However we would meet later that day to go over our flaws. We took the evaluators suggestions and implemented them into our lesson plan. When it was all said and done we made our cons into pros
Quote of the day:"If you fail try and try again".
- unknown author
We had some negative thing for today but it wasn't that bad. In the presentation of our lesson plan our evaluators mention that we seemed less confident with ourselves than other teams, and that we seemed rushed.
However we would meet later that day to go over our flaws. We took the evaluators suggestions and implemented them into our lesson plan. When it was all said and done we made our cons into pros
Quote of the day:"If you fail try and try again".
- unknown author
June 24th NASA PSTI
Today my team and I had our biggest and final challenge of the internship. We presented our lesson plan to the fifth and sixth grade students. It seemed at first that my team and I weren't on that page, some of us were confused on what exactly we had to do. But like the good teachers that we plan to be we came through the challenge with bright colors.
Every member in my team talked and contributed to the lesson, none of us were interrupted during our lecturing but most importantly we all worked as team and had great time doing it. I was little nervous at first but once the students walked through that door I changed my shaky self to a teacher who ready for anything and everything. I have to give a big thank you to all my team members, everyone made smooth transitions through the lesson and no one really missed up.
There were really no negatives for today, the only thing we had for a suggestion of lesson plan was that we didn't mention that vocabulary words weren't on wall. I think the students seen the vocab sign though, I would catch students gaze at the posters that we set up on the wall ( mainly vocabulary words).
Quote of the day:"
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. "
Malcolm Forbes
Every member in my team talked and contributed to the lesson, none of us were interrupted during our lecturing but most importantly we all worked as team and had great time doing it. I was little nervous at first but once the students walked through that door I changed my shaky self to a teacher who ready for anything and everything. I have to give a big thank you to all my team members, everyone made smooth transitions through the lesson and no one really missed up.
There were really no negatives for today, the only thing we had for a suggestion of lesson plan was that we didn't mention that vocabulary words weren't on wall. I think the students seen the vocab sign though, I would catch students gaze at the posters that we set up on the wall ( mainly vocabulary words).
Quote of the day:"
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. "
Malcolm Forbes
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