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READ AND WRITE LIKE AN ENGINEER

Costa, V., Cook, L., and Burton, M. (January, 2018).  Read and Write Like an Engineer (with NASA’s BEST Engineering Design Process). Workshop presented for the 2018 Hawaiian International Conference on Education (HICE), Waikiki, HA.

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SPACE SAILING WITH NASA


Electric Sail
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Solar Sail
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Workshop Resources
  • ​Workshop Presentation (PPT)
  • Workshop Presentation (PDF)
  • NASA's BEST Website

Space Sailing Activity Resources
  • ​Space Sailing Activity Guide
  • NASA Begins Testing of Revolutionary E-Sail Technology (article)
  • New NASA Spacecraft will be Propelled by Light (article)​

Read and Write Like Engineer Resources
  • Introduction to NASA's BEST Educators Activity Guide (draft)
  • ​Technical Text Activity

Engineering Design Process Resources
  • Fred and the Widget
  • EDP Quiz
  • ​EDP Foldable


Workshop Videos
Sailing in Space (Rocketboom), 2:05 min
Light Sail Then and Now (Bill Ne, Planetary Society), 3:07 min

Space Sailing Activity Videos
Animation of Heliopause Electrostatic Rapid Transport System (HERTS) (NASA), 1:32 min
HELIOS Advanced Solar Sail Concept (NASA), 3:30 min
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  • Home
    • About Vikki Costa
  • Science Fiction
    • Teaching with Science Fiction
    • Characteristics of Science Fiction
    • Writing Sci Fi
    • SciFi Short Stories >
      • Soft Rains
      • Road Not Taken
      • California Dreamer
      • Folding Beijing
    • SciFi Novels >
      • Frankenstein
      • Journey to the Center of the Earth
      • The Time Machine
      • I, Robot
      • A Wrinkle in Time
      • Ender's Game
      • Jurassic Park
      • Japan Sinks
      • Three Body Problem
      • The Age of Miracles
    • Sci Fi Movies >
      • Them!
  • Movies
  • Technology
  • Global Education
  • NASA's BEST Workshops
    • Read Write Like Engineer
    • STREAMing
  • Informational Text
  • Visual Thinking
  • Hodgepodge