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News media invited to teacher activity illustrating challenges faced by disabled students
What: To illustrate the challenges faced by disabled students and museum patrons and how they can be overcome, approximately 35 educators — each simulating a disability — will literally "grasp" the concept of the solar system. Each teacher will assemble beads representing the planets of our solar system onto a 4-meter-long string, with each planet placed to scale from the Sun. Simulated disabilities will include vision and hearing impairments, as well as mobility and physical impairments. Adaptations for other audiences will also be discussed.
Selected to participate by NASA's Space Grant Consortium — an organization funded by NASA's Office of Education — the teachers work in states throughout the Southeast. This activity is one of several that are part of the Exceptional Space Science Materials for Exceptional Students II: Technology Workshop, held June 2-5, 2002 in Huntsville, Ala.
Who: Keith Watt, assistant director of the Mars Education Program at Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz., will lead the activity. During a mission to Bermuda as a naval flight officer, Watt was exposed to meningitis, which severely damaged his hearing.
He was medically retired from the Navy and joined NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, supporting Space Shuttle missions, the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. He joined Arizona State University in 2001.
When: Tuesday, June 4, 2002 at 10:15 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. CDT
Where: The National Space Science and Technology Center
320 Sparkman Drive in Huntsville
Located in Cummings Research Park, on Sparkman Drive between Bradford Drive and Lakeside DriveTo attend: News media interested in covering the event should contact Judy Pettus at (256) 544-0034.
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