5th Graders go to Challenger Center

This week, our fifth grade students have been taking field trips, two homerooms at a time, to the Challenger Learning Center for Space and Technology in Woodstock. The field trip provides students with innovative science and simulated space missions. Each mission provides students with the opportunity to develop and implement team building, communication, and problem solving skills.

Our students completed the mission called Rendezvous with a Comet. In this mission, our students become scientists and engineers conducting a daring mission to take an up-close look at a comet as it streaks its way across the galaxy. Their goal is to plot a successful course to rendezvous with the comet, launch a probe while plotting the correct intercept course and completing station activities. What seems at first to be a routine exploration is filled with challenges and emergencies. Each obstacle that stands in the way of a successful mission requires students to work together as a team and use problem solving skills to develop a solution.

While the students were completing their missions, a reporter from the Daily Herald spoke with staff and students and took pictures in honor of and in commemoration of the Challenger Space Shuttle Mission. The article and pictures will appear in the paper on Thursday, January 28. Click on the link to check out the article that includes pictures and videos!

http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20160128/news/160128910/


The Challenger Center offers summer camps and family fun nights throughout the year. If you are interested in learning more about those opportunities, please click on the links below:

Family Science Nights

Club Challenger

Summer Space Adventures