SEEC 2019: Satellite Tracking, Orbits, and Modeling

Presented:  February 2019

Presenters:  Frances Dellutri and Lynne Zielinski

Attendees:  Teachers from the US of students grade 8 - 12

Overview: Tracking Satellites, Orbits, and Monitoring

Participants will take away some online tools, NASA resources, and a working knowledge of orbits and orbital mechanics. Participants will learn how to model (2D and 3D) orbiting bodies that can be used to locate and track satellites visually and electronically in real-time.  They will be able to apply data to understand the shapes, types, scale, and locations of satellite orbits. Participants will take away a greater depth of knowledge that can be applied to classroom physical sciences, Physics (Classical Mechanics), and Mathematics (Trigonometry and Euclid’s theories of proportions and ratios). Participants will take away that satellite tracking and orbits can be an exciting way to enrich or adapt curriculum to fit the needs of the student. Through the LEO Art Challenge activity participants will take away the knowledge gained in this session and apply it to a new art from to show how it can be used to communicate science topics.   

ICE 2019: Satellite Tracking, Orbits, and Modeling

Presented:  2/7/2019

Presenters:  Frances Dellutri and Lynne Zielinski

Attendees:  Teachers from the US of students grade 8 - 12

Overview: Tracking Satellites, Orbits, and Monitoring

Participants will take away some online tools, NASA resources, and a working knowledge of orbits and orbital mechanics. Participants will learn how to model (2D and 3D) orbiting bodies that can be used to locate and track satellites visually and electronically in real-time.  They will be able to apply data to understand the shapes, types, scale, and locations of satellite orbits. Participants will take away a greater depth of knowledge that can be applied to classroom physical sciences, Physics (Classical Mechanics), and Mathematics (Trigonometry and Euclid’s theories of proportions and ratios). Participants will take away that satellite tracking and orbits can be an exciting way to enrich or adapt curriculum to fit the needs of the student. Through the LEO Art Challenge activity participants will take away the knowledge gained in this session and apply it to a new art from to show how it can be used to communicate science topics.   

2017-10-28 Carthage-Yerkes Electrostatics in Space

Title:  2017-10-28 Carthage-Yerkes Electrostatics in Space

Authors:  Frances Duletri, Lynne Zielinski

Subjects: Teacher Workshop

Standards:

Short Description:

Space is not empty, but full of plasma and particles that you never expected to be there. "99.9 percent of the Universe is made up of plasma," says Dr. Dennis Gallagher, a plasma physicist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. The magnetosphere surrounds and protects the earth from stellar plasma with a complex system of interacting electric and magnetic fields, electric currents and charged particles. Rockets, satellites and the International Space Station fly in plasma. Join us in learning about the exotic phenomena that surround the earth. Learn how the Earth’s magnetic field protects us from the hazards of space environment. This STEAM* workshop provides K-12 teachers with the background and activities to excite students to continue studying electrostatics, a wide application in many emerging fields of industry.

Workshop - 2018-1-27 From Earth to Interstellar Space

The twin Voyager spacecraft left Earth 40 years ago and have opened our eyes to the amazing worlds found in our solar system.  Each Voyager continues to sail over ten billion miles into interstellar space, an historical moment compared to Columbus stumbling onto America and Neil Armstrong's first footsteps on the Moon. Join us in a STEAM* workshop for K-12 teachers to discuss the continuing significance of this voyage as the final frontier is explored. Delve into this remarkable achievement and consider our place in the universe.  Voyager carries a 'Golden Record' as a greeting to intelligent life that the ship may encounter thousands or millions years in the future into interstellar space.  What message would you have from the 'Pale Blue Dot'?

*STEAM - Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics


Welcome to SpacEdge Academy

Welcome letter from Lynne Zielinski, Education Manager.

Workshop: 2017-06-29-BTCI-Life in Space!

BioPharmaceutical Technology Center Institute is an educational outreach resource.  EIS  presented a short session to middle school teachers about some aspect of Life In Space which is the focus this teacher training session.

2017-03-11 Yerkes: More than the Rainbow

This is a one day workshop at Yerkes covering
Radio, Submillimeter/Microwave, Infrared, Visible, and Ultraviolet Light.

  • Basic Info
  • What types of instruments are used by astronomers?
  • What questions are being answered by astronomers?
  • Possible Hands on Activities and/or Resources


2017-02-09 EIS at SEEC

Small Steps Teaching Space Science Brings Giant Leaps Into Classrooms!


2019 Nepal Electrostatics in Space

Title:  2017-10-28 Carthage-Yerkes Electrostatics in Space

Authors:  Frances Duletri, Lynne Zielinski, Bonnie Thurber

Subjects: Teacher Workshop

Standards:

Short Description:

Space is not empty, but full of plasma and particles that you never expected to be there. "99.9 percent of the Universe is made up of plasma," says Dr. Dennis Gallagher, a plasma physicist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. The magnetosphere surrounds and protects the earth from stellar plasma with a complex system of interacting electric and magnetic fields, electric currents and charged particles. Rockets, satellites and the International Space Station fly in plasma. Join us in learning about the exotic phenomena that surround the earth. Learn how the Earth’s magnetic field protects us from the hazards of space environment. This STEAM* workshop provides K-12 teachers with the background and activities to excite students to continue studying electrostatics, a wide application in many emerging fields of industry.

Workshop: IL-Ed-Tech Trek-a-Sat

Written by: Frances Dellutri, Middle School/Intermediate Level EIS Education Team, June 2016 

Edited by: Bonnie Thurber for ILTC Workshop

EIS Topic: Atmosphere, Centripetal Force, Computers, Mathematics, Micro-gravity, Free-fall, Orbital Mechanics, Physics, Satellites, Spacecraft, Weightlessness 

Grade (Age) Level: Grades 5-8 (Ages 10-13) 

Key Topics Associated with Standards: Collecting, Analyzing and Interpreting Data; Gravitational Interactions; Forces and Motion, Relationship between Energy and Forces 

US Standards:  NGSS:

MS-ESS1-1 http://www.nextgenscience.org/pe/ms-ess1-1-earths-place-universe

MS-PS2-4   http://www.nextgenscience.org/pe/ms-ps2-4-motion-and-stability-forces-and-interactions

MS-PS2-5  http://www.nextgenscience.org/pe/ms-ps2-4-motion-and-stability-forces-and-interactions

With this project, you can track a satellite in real time. There are hundreds of satellite orbiting our planet.  The project "Satellites -


 The NSS Enterprise is an unmanned satellite that will be launching in 2020-2021 and will be carrying 100+ student experiments.  You can compete to send your experiment to space!  The competition is planned to be open in 2018, watch for an update.