•Participants included 8 experienced elementary and physical education educators form two local school districts (Houston Independent School District and the Goose Creek Consolidated Independent School District )
•The purpose of the meeting was to develop educational materials related to Sports and Exploration.
•This group of educators had been previously exposed to subject matter experts in the fields of soccer by the Houston Dynamo and exploration by members of the NASA Johnson Space Center Constellation Office to complete a series of hands-on, inquiry-based, physical science activities for elementary audiences.
•The working session yielded a series of lessons on gravity, and materials analysis related to the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields.
•The fundamental basics of physics and the effects on properties of materials when exposed to a reduced gravity environment were introduced.
•Educators were given the opportunity to adapt the information given by both the NASA and Houston Dynamo SME’s, for use in the 3rd-5th grade bilingual materials in development.
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