Join Us and Do – Learn Aerospace

Life Sciences in Space! Course Jan 12 – May 18

LearnAerospace — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 04:09:27 +0000

We are super excited to partner with our local Makerspace Forsyth, in Cumming GA, for hosting classes! On Thursdays starting January 12th, through May 18th, we will be studying Life Sciences, and not just what they mean to us here on Earth, but also how Life Sciences impact us in Space! This will be a super exciting, and fun class investigating various areas of Life Sciences through hands on lessons and activities, and taking a look at a number of careers focusing on these areas.

Over the course of 16 weeks, we will learn about the following topics:

Characteristics of living organisms and the operational definition of life
Designing and building biospheres
Testing tropisms (the growth movement a living organism has towards an external stimulus)
Spaceflight physiology including: oxygen needs, heart rates, importance of exercise, the vestibular system, orthostatic hypotension, carbon dioxide effects
Spacesuits and how they protect humans in Space
Radiation on Earth and Space and how it affects DNA
Space food chemistry
And more!

Hands-on learning activities will include:

How to take soil samples and test for life
Building a lunar biosphere in a team environment with each participant rotating scientific roles
Testing the effects of gravity on growth of plants
Simulate the effects of space on the human body through multiple experiments
Build parts of spacesuits to understand how they operate
Build DNA molecules
And more!

We will explore the following careers:

Soil and Plant Scientists, Robotic engineers, Anthropologists, Geographers, Astronomers, Astronauts, Botanists, Agricultural Engineers, Zoologists, Medical Scientists, Exercise Physiologists, Audiologists, Respiratory Therapists, Human Factors Engineers and Ergonomists, Biomedical Engineers, Fashion Designers, etc.!

Beyond learning the science, we will develop these skills as a group:

Critical thinking
Problem solving
Decision making
Communication
Data collection, analysis and interpretation
Technological design
Science and technology in society
Algebraic thinking: analyzing patterns and relationships, probability, graphing, etc.!
And more!

Dates: Thursdays, 10:00-12:00, January 12^th – May 18^th, we will take off these dates: 2/16, 3/16, 4/6

Homework will be assigned through the course and graded together as a group.

NLB VBS Week

LearnAerospace — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 13:36:09 +0000

We are super excited to be running an aerospace based class at North Lanier Baptist’s Fine Arts VBS camp, Everland. We will be sailing the skies of Everland and seeing what we can launch during the week!

Educators – Join the Civil Air Patrol

LearnAerospace — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 01:32:06 +0000

We are excited to be an Aerospace Education Member (AEM) of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP)! If you are an educator (in a formal school or homeschool) you too can join and get access to the same education CAP uses with their cadets. There are great resources for teaching and learning all kinds of exciting areas of aerospace like aerodynamics, building aircraft and rockets, and more! For a simple membership fee you will receive education materials that far exceed what you pay.

As a member you also receive their great publication that showcases the service the Civil Air Patrol provides. For example, in a few issues in 2016, the articles included coverage of their search and rescue operations during the SC flood, help in testing the response of airspace breech over the super bowl stadium, etc.

We hold CAP courses local to the Atlanta, GA area through various homeschool programs. Look for more information on where we are offering classes in our Join Us and Do area!