Way To Go Sis!!

[Cpt Matt Sparrow]

David

maybe you can invite her here and say there are some fellow space geeks here

Matt

[RR-ElectricAngel]

maybe you can invite her here and say there are some fellow space geeks here

I'll ask her Matt. She's hard to track down on any given day and is as shy about the internet as Kathy Rhoads is about taking questions from fans. I told her that her idea of a geodome to construct a planetarium was brilliant because students were encouraged to "create" their own constellations and myths surrounding their constellations. Most of the ideas that were not chosen was due to the fact the student just memorized some bit of information rather than came up with new ideas.

Here's how her idea worked: Each student was given a clipboard, blank paper, pencils, pens, markers or colors and asked to draw their own constellation, name the constellation and create a short story to explain the myth surrounding their constellation. To demonstrate what they had learned, students created their own Playground Planetarium by covering the school's metal geo dome climber with black poster paper and drew their constellations on the black poster paper, using different colored chalk from inside of the geo dome climber. When everyone finished drawing their constellation, the make shift planetarium was taken down and brought back to class for sharing. To extend the lesson, students made comparisons to Navajo star constellations and their stories.



She is still shocked that she was chosen. She thinks there were better ideas that were not chosen by N.A.S.A. She is quite humble about it. Got to love her for that...