ANAHEIM Students at Betsy Ross primary school can have a singular chance Monday, Apr 3: they're going to get to talk on to astronauts aboard the International artificial satellite.
More than a dozen students ar prepped to raise queries of Expedition fifty Commander Shane Kimbrough and aircrewman Peggy Whitson throughout a 20-minute Earth-to-space move into 8:40 a.m. that may air survive National Aeronautics and Space Administration tv and also the agency's web site.
Betsy Ross students can watch the exchange and then can thousands of scholars in school rooms across the urban center primary school District.
"All the youngsters ar excited and that they ar recognizing this as a once in a very life expertise," same third-grade teacher Sarah Cordett, one in all the lecturers UN agency applied to National Aeronautics and Space Administration for the chance to talk with the astronauts.
The students researched the subject and took part in a very orthography bee-style competition, wherever the most effective queries were elite by a committee.
The usual 'how do astronauts attend the bathroom' would not do. the solution to try and do that's simply found on You Tube.
"(NASA) needed the inquiries to be ungoogable, the maximum amount as doable," Cordett same.
The exchange culminates a months-long exploration of the program in school rooms across Betsy Ross Elementary, wherever lecturers integrated the topic into language arts, sciences and alternative categories.
Students engaged in numerous analysis comes and activities: third-graders created paper mache traveler helmets whereas fourth-graders designed models of the International artificial satellite made up of re-purposed materials; students browse articles and researched numerous space-related themes to write down reports; they conjointly used computer game glasses to tour the artificial satellite and see however astronauts live.
