In continuing the educational mission of the Challenger Crew, the Challenger Space Center offers a wide variety of educational programs, events and resources to educators near and far. Our unique facility offers a hands-on learning environment outside of the classroom, designed to evoke creativity and a passion for learning in kids of all ages. For those too far away to visit the Center, we offer one of a kind distance learning programs that integrate science and technology like never before.

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Home School Day at the Challenger Space Center
January 17, 2011
9:30am – 12:00pm

A special morning of activities set aside with home schooled students specifically in mind. Come join the education and fun! Programs available for ages 3 through high school aged students. Click Here to Register and find out more details.

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Teacher Training
Prior to flying a Mission or e-Mission, the educator for each class will attend a half-day teacher orientation program at least one month before the date of their mission. At this workshop, educators will receive materials specifically designed to prepare the students for their mission. Educators receive 4 to 6 weeks worth of curriculum materials (including 10 lessons) to integrate into their studies in the weeks prior to their mission date.

The pre-flight activities provided during orientation encompass a variety of interdisciplinary themes, from math and science, to the arts. It is this essential classroom component that lifts a mission or e-Mission from the confines of an everyday field trip. Dedicated to providing high-quality experiences for all learners, the Challenger Space Center helps educators create a simulated world for learning to excite and inspire kids about space, science and the world in which we live.

Comet and Mars Teacher Training 2010-2011

First Saturday of each month, 8:30am – 12:30pm at Challenger Space Center
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED


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e-Mission Teacher Training 2010-2011
Your team will interact with Mission Control Base to track a hurricane, predict volcanic rock fall and determine how these conditions will impact this tiny island as you race against time to evacuate and save the 8,000 residents of Montserrat.

  First Saturday of each month, 8:30am – 12:30pm at Challenger Space Center
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED


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Please call or e-mail 623-322-2020 / [email protected] to schedule your Educator training. There is no cost for the Mission or e-Mission Educator Training. Educators can receive 4 CEU credits.