Another amazing experience at Space Center Houston was Rocket Park. This is the Saturn V rocket. I repeat...this is the SATURN V ROCKET. This took men to the moon!? Walking into this building blew me away and the engines weren't even on! To give you an idea of the size, if you can't tell from the panoramas, this rocket takes up an entire building. The small brown cone-shaped piece is the capsule. That's where the astronauts were. You can see it in the photo above. At the opposite end of the rocket is the engine. For good reason too.
Pictured above is the F-1 Engine, a cluster of five total engines. Each one weighs about 16,000 lbs and provides a thrust of 1.5 million lbs! In other words, a powerhouse! This rocket had a huge impact on the space program. Seeing this had a huge impact on me. I hope that the Hidden Figures unit had the same impact on my students. We finished reading the book, all 23 chapters! We did it! I'm so pleased with how it went. We wrapped up Friday with 2 summative assessments. 1) Comprehension test - Matching people and description - Multiple choice events and vocabulary - Fill in the blank 2)Written response test - Students could chose 2 questions to answer from a list. - Each question was related to a major topic or theme from the book. - Students had to answer using the RACE strategy. - Each answer is graded using a rubric. * RACE is an acronym and it's a great step-by-step way to answer questions with evidence from the text. I will focus a future blog post on this strategy alone.* Monday, students are turning in their 2 performance assessments. 1) Book Cover Re-design -> Conrad's Class Edition 2) Hidden Figures Project - The format was student choice. - They had to answer our unit's central questions in a creative way: What does it mean to be a Hidden Figure? How am I/can I be a hidden figure? Stay tuned for pictures of student's book covers and projects! Peace, Love and Space Exploration, - CAPCOM Conrad #HiddenFigures #SpaceCenterHouston #RocketPark #SaturnV #studentimpact
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