Education

School Field Trip EdVentures

The Space Center offers a day time 4 hour and a after school 2 and 4 hour field trips for schools all across Utah. For further information including available times and prices click here. Curriculum School Year 2007-2008.

Curriculum School Year 2007-2008
The Space Center's curriculum is intended for teacher use. These materials contain all pre and post visit materials and activities to prepare your class for their Space Center experience. 2007-2008 School Year Teacher Resources, Field Trip Day Planner, and Pre-Visit Curriculum.

This year's 6th Grade story is: "Midnight Rescue."
This year's primary 5th Grade story is: "A Cry From The Dark."
This year's optional 5th Grade story is: "Intolerance."

• Victor Williamson: Space Center Director
• Lorraine Houston: Educator
• Aleta Clegg: Educator
• Megan Warner: Student Staff
• Metta Smith: Student Staff
• Stacy Carrol: Student Staff

• Brent A: Technology Director
• Bridger M: Student Staff
• Chandler N: Webmaster
• Brad S: Student Staff
• Matthew S: Student Staff
• Alex A: Student Staff

(This program is being revised. It will be available again January 2008) The Space Center offers special missions for our youngest space cadets. This program is held weekday afternoons starting at 4:30 P.M. The Junior Mission lasts two hours. The mission places the students hundreds of years in the future aboard a starship on duty with Earth Command. The space missions are designed to teach space science concepts using drama, music, and alien encounters in an interactive, team building, problem solving atmosphere. You child becomes a main character in an exciting, unforgettable Space EdVenture! For information on booking a Junior Mission please call the Center at 801.785.8713.

Join other students in exploration basic concepts of astronomy and physics. You will learn about the International Space Station, rocketry, the Space Shuttle, strange members of our solar system, and deep space astronomy. Other classes include geology and nuclear science. Many classes fulfill Boy Scout Merit Badge requirements. Please visit the Edventures section of our web site for further information and registration materials.

At the Space Center, we feel that technology is a vital component of education. The Space Center's Programming Classes fulfill this philosophy. Our programming classes have a two-fold mission. The first mission is to provide information to the public in basic Computer Programming. This is fulfilled with our publicly offered Beginning Revolution class. This class focuses primarily on fundamental programming techniques including logic flow, variables, and basic programming mathematics. Combining simple in-class projects (Such as Pac-Main, Battleship, or LightCycle) and the Space Center's official programming language, Runtime Revolution, students move from the beginning steps of product design to the end of the class with deployment and presentation. Many students enter this class with no prior programming knowledge and leave capable of producing simple yet powerful software.

Students interested in taking classes beyond Beginning Revolution are given the option to join the Space Center's Volunteering Organization and begin working towards membership in the student operated Programming Guild. This group and it's classes fulfill the second mission of our Programming Classes: producing all of the Space Center's video, animation, computer programming, networking, special effects, and other high-tech top-secret projects. If you have ever wanted to get a jump-start in technology, computers, or graphic arts, the Programming Guild is for you. Email the Space Center or visit the Programming Guild Website for more information on these exciting programs.