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Team STEMbersGeorge Hademenos (TX)

Patricia Edmiston (LA)

Christine Lange (WI)

Identifying the ProblemWhat are the effects of

traveling to suborbital space?

Available materialsA weather balloonHelium GPS-activated cell phonea payload compartment cameraVernier probes and data collection

instrument

Student-Driven Experiment Possibilities

Temperature vs Time of flightTemperature vs Volume Temperature vs AltitudeTemperature vs PressureAcceleration vs Time of flightAcceleration vs PressureAcceleration vs TemperaturePressure vs AltitudePressure vs VolumeGeographical surveyingPosition vs Time of flightMeterological investigationOzone investigationCO2 levels or O2 levels

As well as any other experime

nt the students

can conceptu

alize.

Budget Constraints

Develop a budget to identify the

most economical approach to

conducting the experiment.

STEM Alignment S – investigate specific quantities in

suborbital space – understand forces, terminal velocity

T – GPS - communications, collection of data, website development

E – design an experiment to collect and analyze data - adhere to weight constraints

M – data graphing analysis – curve fit analysis

Global-based Challenges

Meteorological – ability to collect localized data/information about weather trends of patterns and relevant to the topographical areas.

Geographical – survey local trends, access landscapes, identify regions affected by natural disasters.

Atmospheric – understanding the basic properties and compositions of the stratospheric layers.

Team Participation and Collaboration

Students will collectively agree on the data to be collected based on the scope of the problem, the weight limit, and resource availability.

Students will use a site like WikiSpaces or Edmodo for discussion between schools regarding their findings for use in their individual class presentation.

Teachers will collaborate to design a presentation of our project at the National Science Teachers Association Conference.

AcknowledgementsTo our STEMtastic , STEMulating, STEMrades:

Brad, Jannita, Lance, Mike B, Mike G, Pat, Patti, Peg, Todd

for opening our eyes to the wonderful technology available to us free!!!!

for giving us the opportunity to network with wonderful colleagues.

for the delicious food that kept us going and for helping us realize we can survive on 3 hours of sleep each night.