Bringing Space to the Whole School!

Ms. Werner, a band teacher at a small Catholic school in Dousman, Wi, moved out of her comfort zone and took advantage of a microgravity workshop.  The outcome of the workshop was the possibility to take a 0-g flight and test her student designed experiments in various degrees of microgravity. After various iterations of student experimental designs, proposals and flight plans, Ms. Werner and her fellow 0-g flight teachers and their experiments each experienced 11 minutes of weightlessness during a series of two-hour flights aboard the ZERO-G G-Force One Aircraft. They floated in free-fall as 30 parabolas were executed during the flight with each parabola lasting about 22 to 24 seconds. The experiments were tested during the 22-24 second intervals.                                                                                                                                                                     

Her excitement stirred a whole-school multi-disciplined event that spanned several months in planning for the school event, designing experiments, meeting with colleagues in other disciplines and finally analyzing the experiment designs. A fascinating outcome was using the data to pull from a similar experiment conducted by Mozart  and resulted in a composition that was performed during the May 2022 school music concert.  Follow along on her amazing journey!

Index:

• Introduction
  Announcements
• Lesson Focus
• 1. Introduction
• 2: Lisa’s Message
• 3: Student Surveys
• 4: Curricula
• 5: Enrichment
• 6: Music Value
• 7: Q&A with Ms. Werner
• 8. Glossary
• 9. Send a Postcard to Space!