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Canadian Space Agency Project
Thanks to a partnership with
Canadian Space Agency (St. Hubert,
Quebec), MacDonald Dettwiler Robotics (Toronto, Ontario) and
Northwestel, twenty-five students representing five Grade 3-5
classrooms at Joamie and Nakasuk Schools on November 26 , 1999 took part
in a pilot video-conference Canadian Space Agency electronic classroom
module about robotics and Canada's role in space. These students
contributed what they had learned to our Iqaluit Millennium database
(Knowledge Forum), becoming our classroom experts and mentors for other
students in their classrooms and beyond. Future such projects are being
planned. We'd like to thank to all who made this possible, including
Marilyn Steinberg (CSA), Lindsay Evans ( MD Robotics/CSA) and David Fulgham, a Joamie parent from
NorthwesTel.
This is a first step in a multi school unit on space exploration. In
the new year our students from Joamie (and one class at Nakasuk School)
will be building knowledge about space exploration through the
development of a joint Knowledge Forum database with Harry Camsell
School in Hay River, Northwest Territories. Results will also be shared
on the Canadian Space Agency's Kidspace web page. We will also be
sharing information about our respective communities. This project
across the territories is made possible by an Office of Learning
Technologies grant for which we are thankful.
