SkySpace E-Cademy
SkySpace E-Cademy, a FREE online educational community for teachers and their students.
The free interactive and multimedia-based curriculum includes nine programs, including introductory courses for students on kites, balloons, airplanes and rockets. There are more advanced programs as well, including videos of science experiments by one of our educators here at the Air Zoo, a 10-week biology course on Living in Space authored by a NASA educator, a history lesson on Thaddeus Lowe and the Civil War, biographies of Heroes of Sky and Space and video lessons on the Wright Brothers.
With a free online community that allows teachers to chat online and collaborate on topics by posting messages on discussion boards, educators are never far from new ideas.
SkySpace E-Cademy is more than just standards-based online instruction—it is a complete management system. Teachers can create a free virtual class for their students, register them for lessons and track their progress and achievement in “real time” against objective referenced assessments.
All courses include free Teacher Lesson Guides with multiple online resources and homework assignments for students that can be reviewed online by the teacher.
The program is sponsored by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and is developed in accordance with the National Education Science Standards (especially the History and Nature of Science and the Physical Sciences) and meets the Michigan Curriculum Framework, Science Standards.
Learn more and sign up for this FREE program at our SkySpace E-Cademy web site.
Current online courses:
Featured Course: Big Ten Science Demos
Jerry Pahl from the Air Zoo demonstrates TEN experiments to students on the properties of air, Bernoulli’s Principle, Pascal’s Law and Newton’s Laws.
Heroes of Sky and Space
Learn about the heroic accomplishments of Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh and Robert Goddard – all great pioneers in flight.
History & Science of Kites, Balloons, Airplanes and Rockets
SkySpace E-Cademy presents four courses on the history and science of flight. Students will be able to answer the questions: What is it?, What are the parts?, What is the history? and Why do they fly? These basic courses include pre-assessments, post-assessments, voice-over animations, practice games and crossword puzzles.
Living in Space
Dr. Lynn Bondurant, former NASA educator, is the author of this 10-week course on how astronauts live in space. Students engage in Internet Missions to find answers to questions on the effects of weightlessness, what is space food, where does water come from and how do astronauts breathe, sleep, exercise and stay clean.
Thaddeus Lowe - The Aeronaut
As a young boy, Thaddeus Lowe always dreamed of riding the Jet Stream across the Atlantic Ocean. During the American Civil War, Thaddeus organized and directed a balloon corps in the Union Army. Learn about Thaddeus’s interesting life as a balloonist.
Wright Brothers - Flying Machines
Students will view videos produced by NASA about the Wright Brothers flying machines from the 1899 biplane glider to the 1905 Flier III.