Presenter NameLocation

Date

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Contact Information

Insert Presenter Name and Contact information

Lisa BaconProgram Manager, STEM K-12 Outreach

LisaB@aiaa.org

Tonight’s Goal

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Why We Hope You’re Here

• To encourage students to pursue STEM careers

• To learn techniques and activities to use with K-12 students

• To share what you’ve learned with your others in your region and section

• To make learning engaging!

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• See how many names you can collect from the other participants in the room.

• Each participant may only be used once.

• Keep track of the numbers you’ve found!

• See how many you can find in 10 minutes.

• Can you fill in all of the spaces?

Scavenger Hunt

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Find Someone Who…11

Has mentored a robotics team

22Owns a lab coat

33Is on the STEM K-

12 Outreach committee

44Has seen a space

shuttle launch

55Has flown in a hot

air balloon

66Knows what SCAMPER is

77Has launched a

straw rocket

88Is not an engineer

99Designs space

suits

1010Has worked with

students in the last month

1111Thinks math &

science should be engaging!

1212Has flown a paper airplane in the past

week

1313Has attended any other education

trainings

1414Knows an astronaut

1515Has a pilots’

license

1616Knows what Think-

Pair-Share is

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A Unique Opportunity

Share your passionpassion for STEM with futurefuture scientists, technologists,

engineers and mathematicians!

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Today’s Student …

• Is a visual and kinesthetic learner

• Is hyper-connected to the real world via social media

• Expects technology in their classroom

• Places a high value on interactivity and active learning

• Depends on transferable skills

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``What you need to inventinvent, is an imaginationimagination

and a pile of junk.''

-Thomas Edison

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Use the materials provided to design a straw rocket that travels further than all others.

You must be ready to test your straw rocket in 15 minutes.

Individual Challenge

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The Requirements

• All Straw Rockets Must:• Have a straw fuselage with an opening at the

bottom for launch• Contain at least 2 fins• Have a 2.268g clay nose

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The Engineering Process

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How have Oreo cookies changed? Why?

SCAMPER

SubstituteCombineAdaptMagnify/MinifyPut to Other UseEliminateReverse/Rearrange

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Use the Engineering Process to redesign your straw rocket. You will need to demonstrate your new design in a fly-off in 10 minutes.

Redesign

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Debriefing

What did we learn?

What concepts can we teach from this?

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Debriefing

• Hands-On Activity: Straw Rockets

• Grade Range: 2-9

• Possible Concepts Taught:• Generating Hypothesis• Engineering Design Process• Data Collection/ Graphing/ Analysis• Center of Gravity• Force and Motion• Acceleration• Trajectory

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Elementary School (K-5)

• Want to understand “why?”

• Require concrete examples of concepts

• Enjoy pictures ,videos, models, props

• Recommendations:• Hands-on activities• Movement activities (younger students)• PowerPoint presentations (older students)

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Middle School (6-8)

• Want to understand “how?”

• Enjoy concrete examples of concepts

• Connect academics to real-world

• Enjoy pictures ,videos, models, props

• Recommendations:• Hands-on activities• PowerPoint presentations with visual media• Connections between topics and real-world

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High School (9-12)

• Want to understand “why not?”

• Connect academics to real-world

• Enjoy being spoken to rather than spoken above

• Recommendations:• Hands-On Activities• PowerPoint presentations with visual media• Connections between topics and real-world• More specific content – extend into college-level

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Use the materials provided to design a parachute that stays aloft longer than all others.

You must be ready to test your parachute in 30 minutes.(You will not have an opportunity to redesign your parachute.)

Team Challenge

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The Requirements

• All Parachutes Must:• Use no more than ½ sheet of

tissue paper• Carry the designated parachute

weight (4 Starburst candies)

• All parachutes May:• Use the provided gore pattern

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Debriefing

What did we learn?

What concepts can we teach from this?

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??

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Debriefing

• Hands-On Activity: Parachutes

• Grade Range: 6-12

• Possible Concepts Taught:• Engineering Design Process• Constructing and Experiment• Data Collection/ Graphing/ Analysis• Velocity/ Acceleration• Aerodynamic Drag• Forces of Flight

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When You’re in the Classroom

• Communicate with the teacher prior to your visit• Ask about student needs• Share lesson with the teacher and ask for help with

supplies

• Create a lesson that is engaging and appropriate for students

• Make connections between your job and the student’s world

• “An open mind is a creative mind”

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Resources

http://AIAASTEMeducation.orgAIAA’s web site has many

activities that can used that are •Simple

•Low Cost•Can be done in a short amount

of time•Can be related to the mentor’s

real world experience•Can be tied to the classroom lessons already being taught

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Wordle Review

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Congratulations, you have completed your workshop and are ready to work with

students. You will now become part of the AIAA Mentor Database

Graduation