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Moon Base Project - returning to the moon by 2020 with NASA
Our Team: Alicia Saverese (Math Specialist) Bonnie McLennan (5th grade classroom teacher) Dottie Atwater (Science Teacher Kathy Davis (Technology Coordinator) Kathy McAnelly (Language Arts Specialist) Matt Bradley (Head of School)

//**Overview**: Students will research facts about the moon, guided by a google worksheet, and then journal about this ficticious trip supporting their story with factual data. By making this document available on Google Docs, students can work and collaborate at home for homework, so long as an internet connection is available to them. Our stretch of this is that the teams will collaborate on a NING making their research transparent to all the other groups, and to invited "expert voices" in the NASA program, engineers, writers of Science Fiction, etc.. (Marsha Ivins, of NASA, visited the school last year to discuss space travel. We hope to contact her or an associate to weigh in with the students as they predict what their space travel and MoonBase will be like.) Student groups will use a Glog to show the culmination of their work which will allow the web community to view what they have learned and dreamt about for their MoonBase. We're also planning that they will make a podcast to "journalize" their journey and stay on the moon.//

//**Goals and Outcomes:**//
 * //Students will learn to collaborate with their group and expert voices in NING.//
 * //Students will create a GLOG ([|for a sample click here]) and a podcast as a culminating activity to demonstrate their understanding of the information.//
 * //WCFS faculty will be able to use this lesson as an example of how these tools can be incorporated into their curriculum.//

//**Evaluation:** We would assess the factual data - scientific and mathematical - gathered, writing style used, and appropriate use of technology. We'll also assess the collaboration of the groups. We need to create the rubrics that we'll use for assessment. (Thanks to a link found on Haverfords' site, we have some great framework to use.)//