Target Grades:

6, 7, 8, 9

EventScope is developing an interdisciplinary teaching tool that would permit junior high school students to virtually navigate and remotely sense online environments that have been created from NASA datasheets. To accomplish this, the project will:

1. Generate interactive, viewer-navigable 3-D models based-on real world 3D data gathered by remotely operated robots (e.g. Pioneer/Chernobyl mapping, Mars Sojourner/Pathfinder)

2. Develop an interface that permits students and teachers to use NASA visualization tools without extensive training.

3. Develop a cross-platform stand-alone program that works with common web browsers that would integrate all of the components of the project. The proposal delineates the National Research Council Science Content Standards that the project will address. Teachers will be involved in the development of the accompanying curriculum and the project plans to collect teacher and student feedback for evaluation purposes.

System Requirements: An Internet and Web Browser

Access: http://www.eventscope.org/