HIGH SCHOOL LESSON PLAN
Welcome to Meteoroids and Orbital Debris Lesson Plan!
It is NASA’s policy to involve the educational community in our endeavors to
inspire America’s students, create learning opportunities, and enlighten inquisitive
minds. It is one of the Marshall Space Flight Center’s (MSFC) missions to research,
develop, verify and transfer space environments effects technologies to its community. A
key strategy applied to meet this mission is education; educating not only the managers,
designers, and operators of spacecraft, but also the general public, including high school
students, who will be our future managers, designers, and operators of America’s
spacecraft.
The study of the natural space environment and its effects on spacecraft is one of the
most important and least understood aspects of spacecraft design. The Space Environments
and Effects (SEE) Program, has worked with Sparkman High School in Harvest, Alabama, to
prepare a SEE focused high-school curriculum that will engage students in creative
activities that will improve their math and science concepts and skills as well as
introducing the students to the natural space environment.
This cooperative effort began after Sparkman submitted an unsolicited proposal to the
SEE Program to develop a high-school level space environments and effects curriculum. The
teachers polled the students and found that a majority of the students were interested in
the meteoroid and orbital debris environment. The SEE Program recognized the enthusiasm of
the Sparkman teachers and interest of the students and wanted to help establish a quality
space environment curriculum that will spark a greater interest in math and science for
the students to pursue.
Points of Contact:
Jody Minor, SEE Program Coordinator for Sparkman Project - 256-544-4041
Margaret Roberts, Sparkman Math Teacher - 256-852-5800
Becky Chapman, Sparkman Math Teacher - 256-852-5800
Belinda Cross, Sparkman Science Teacher - 256-852-5800
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