Date: Mon, 27 Aug 1956 21:13:36 +0000
From: Robert Zafran <rzafran@ix.netcom.com>
To: pinhole@exploratorium.edu
Subject: WWWeb Based Research Project
Second semester project opportunity!!!!!
Looking for a wwweb based reseasrch type project for second semester???
The Space Physics Project Series described as follows may be what you
want. I have created three “lessons” on the earth’s auroras, the
earth’s magnetosphere, and the solar wind. I need teachers/students at
the middle/high school level to conduct the projects and evaluate them.
I will serve as the “distance learning” mentor via email for teachers
and/or students who undertake the project. Check out the “Mentor’s” and
“Student’s Guidelines” on the preliminary web site
ftp://willow.colorado.edu/pub/exchange/speo_test/serieshome.html
at the start of any of the lessons. Let me know if you are
interested. One assignment a week works out to 12 weeks for the
project. You can make any amount of tasks due per week or just put a
completion date on the project. The project makes an excellent partners
cooperative assignment. Bob Zafran, San Jose, CA.
The Space Physics Project
A Series of Internet-Based Space Physics Lessons
The Space Physics Project, a step-by-step, space physics lesson
assignment, outlines a research oriented, internet\world wide web (WWW)
based, "science project" style lesson. Teachers, parents, or relatives,
can serve as "Project Mentors" to help students complete the Space
Physics Project learning experience. Three topics, earth's auroras,
earth's magentosphere, and the solar wind, are explored by
de-emphasizing the importance placed on the written report and the
table-top display which are normally the focus of science project
oriented tasks. Instead, the Space Physics Project develops a
sequenced, interlinked learning method that reinforces the student's
usage of WWW resources. Such WWW-based resources include other space
physics lessons, simulations, real-time data and images, video clips and
movies, and scientifically oriented, text-based materials. As students,
either individually or with a partner, progress through the lesson, they
repetitively integrate and associate the individual steps in a
connective fashion utilizing text, graphics, models, and visually
oriented displays.
The culmination of the project, the Space Physics Learning Center,
(either a table-top, multi-media, or WWW-based page presentation) allows
other students to learn about the earth's magnetosphere by experiencing
the research and experimentation results. The Student’s Guidelines
below outline student expectations for this project. For the complete
Space Physics Projects, or to contact the authors by Email, go to the
wwweb site:
ftp://willow.colorado.edu/pub/exchange/speo_test/serieshome.html
Student Guidelines
This project requires you to use the Internet/WWW as a research
tool to learn as much as you can about the earth's auroras, the earth's
magentosphere, and the solar wind. The space physics information you
locate will be used to create reports, pictures, diagrams, posters, and
models that you will use to teach others about each topic.
Each of the twelve, step-by-step assignments must be finished in
order to complete your project. You are awarded points for each step
based on the quality of your product, timeliness, and the completion of
all the requirements for that step.
Internet\WWW resources will provide the primary resource materials
for your auroral research, but supplemental materials: books, journals,
news-media, and multi-media resources, may also be used. The steps are
designed to be completed in sequence so as to reinforce and link
individual concepts.
All text materials must be typed. STEP 12, your Space Physics
Learning Center, is where you will display all of your creations.
Completion dates for each step will be established by your Space Physics
Project Mentor (your teacher, parent, older relative, etc.) according to
the Project Timeline and Schedule.