Rendezvous
with a
Comet
Mission Overview
Research Tasks
The Process
Mission Teams
Participation
Pre-Mission Activities
The Mission
Post-Mission Activities
Assessment
Team Reflection
Resources
Credits
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The Process
The process you will follow consists of three main parts:
A) Prepare for your Rendezvous with a Comet mission
by conducting a pre-mission activities, and deliver a report before
a "congressional committee." Includes a written report OR a poster OR
a PowerPoint presentation.
B) Participate in the Rendezvous with a Comet mission
at your local Challenger Learning Center.
C) Prepare for a "press conference" by conducting post-mission
activities, and participate in that press conference. Includes team and
individual reflections.
Before
you begin to prepare for your Rendezvous
with a Comet mission, make certain that you clearly understand
the goals, procedures, and research questions, and review the scoring
rubrics for
scoring
your
written
work, congressional presentation, and team participation. The step-by-step
process that you will follow is given below:
Step 1: Find out about your mission goal, research
questions, and procedures by reviewing this WebQuests pages through
the hyperlinks at the left.
Step 2: Apply for and work with teacher to assemble Mission
Teams
Step 3: Review the rules of Participation
Step 4: Conduct Pre-Mission
Activities
- Whole group activities
- Team activities
- Classroom connections as directed by your teacher
Step 5: Prepare for Congressional hearing.
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It is recommended that each member of your group
take on the responsibility for researching a few questions from
the appropriate category (Grade 5, Grade 6, or Grades 7-8) on
the Research
Tasks page.
Once everyone is finished with their individualized research,
your group should talk with one another about research
findings.
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Each member of your group should research his
or her assignment using the Resources page
and find the answers to the assigned questions. By no means,
however, limit
yourself to only the questions
listed. If something catches your eye as interesting that you
were not aware of before, make note of it. After doing your research,
you should be able to answer your grade level's research
questions and the ones that come before it
at the very least.
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Prepare a short outline of your findings for your other group members
in order to inform them of your research results. Make sure to
keep track of resource references used for your research as well
as the
use of
any
important quotations found throughout your research.
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Once every member has finished the appropriate
research and your entire team is knowledgeable about the correct
response to each question, produce one of the following for the
Congressional hearing: a brochure, a poster,
or a PowerPoint presentation. These will be used in
your presentation before the Congressional committee.
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See the Assessment page
in order to determine what should be included with the brochure,
poster, and PowerPoint presentation.
Please note that the brochure, poster, and Powerpoint must include
a "Works
Cited" or "References" section
that describes all references (e.g., books, pdf files, web pages,
etc.) used in the research and preparation of the presentation
findings.
Step 6: Conduct the Congressional hearing.
Step 7: Complete the
Mission Rendezvous
with a Comet at your local Challenger
Learning Center
Step 8: Conduct Post-Mission
Activities
- Whole group activities
- Team activities
Step 9: Prepare for and conduct a press conference
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Following your Rendezvous with a Comet mission, each team
will be required to make a 5-minute oral presentation at a press
conference. Your team will prepare a presentation communicating
your findings about such things as “the next
mission,” “impressions,” “discoveries,” and “future
careers.”
- In order
to know
what will be looked for in the presentation, check the Assessment page.
Step 10: Additional follow-up activities if any
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Support for program number HST-ED-90285.01-A was provided by NASA through a grant from the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Incorporated, under NASA contract NAS5-26555.
Copyright (c) 2007 Challenger Learning Center at Prairie Aviation
Museum and Challenger Learning Center of Northwest Indiana. Staff
of Challenger Learning Centers and instructors of classes involved
with Challenger Learning Center missions may reproduce this WebQuest
guide for classroom and educational purposes. Otherwise this
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Last updated 7/16/2007
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