PSA - Astronomy from Jessica Zimmerman on Vimeo.

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Hello my name is Jessica Zimmerman and I would like to present to you the idea of a new form of education.
The cosmic prospective, in other words.  The goal of this project is to introduce astronomy into the curriculum of the 6th grade public school system.  This curriculum will incorporate earth sciences, information about our planetary system, our home galaxy, and stretch to the far reaches of our universe.  This new curriculum will expand the students horizons and intrigue them in the learning process.  This curriculum will be pact with hands on activities and videos, field trips and guest speakers to keep the students interest and aid in the learning process because of their age.  This curriculum will spark their interest in the entire learning process and open the minds to other, diverse careers that they may not have been exposed to.

Projected Image of a black hole in space, eating surrounding materials

Super Nova Space Explosion

Earths Atmosphere, in curriculum we will be taking a look at this and how it's important

Images of a distant nebula, showing the amazing things out there in space, these images will intrigue the students and basically everyone who looks at them.  This will engage the audience and expand their mind by the realization that these images are REAL and out there.

The Earth and the Moon Images taken from outter space, a basic understanding of what we look like.

Beautiful Nebula

Saturn

Jupiter

Maps of Consitilations and a diagram showing the planets orbits around the sun, showing the circular orbits

Nebula, lightyears tall

exploding star, gas in space, what is out there?

different colors and wavelenths of light

Nebula

Nebula

Poster 5

Post 5

Poster 4

Final

poster 2

Poster 3

CAPSTONE TOPIC

For our senior CAPSTONE project I plan on writing a new curriculum for the sixth grade, which will enter in astronomy into what is taught.  The purpose of this is to expand children's views of what science really is and to open up their minds to careers which aren't exactly 'typical' fields of study.  I also plan on doing an ethnography to accompany the new curriculum as well as a website consisting of a study plan and different in class experiments to do.

2011 Website Trends

Clean neat layouts
A lot of blue
Tabs and links
Communication is an aspect on most web pages
A lot of websites have phone applications such as banking, Facebook, and blogging websites

Favorite Websites

1. Tumblr

I like how you can see a lot of different photos, videos, and quotes that people post
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I like how communication is not a main focus of the website but you can message people
I dislike how it doesn't work a lot of the time
I dislike how you can only post one song per day
I like how you have your own personal blog and dashboard.

2. Flickr

I like how you can share photos
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I like how you can add contacts
I dislike how it is kind of hard to navigate