The Challenger Learning Center at Wheeling Jesuit University offers a unique hands-on learning experience designed to enthuse middle school students about science and math. Merging the power of imagination with the excitement of discovery, students become engineers and scientists as they simulate a space mission. Students work as teams in mission control and aboard a space station as they test their decision-making skills, solve problems, and communicate alternative means during this innovative space-themes science and math lesson. Teachers prepare students using both pre and post-flight activities that integrate the experience into innovative classroom instruction.

Current Mission: Return to the Moon

Time: Two hours for the mission and one hour of classroom activities may be added.

Pre-training: The teacher in-service provided by the Challenger Learning Center staff for the purpose of student preparation is required prior to bringing the students. There is no charge for this service.

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