PACE in Classroom

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Our project offers a comprehensive set of resources for students and educators, designed to work together to provide meaningful support in the learning process.

PACE is deeply linked to the environment and the health of our planet, which has become a fundamental and no longer ignorable issue. Although this problem is already relevant today and is causing countless problems, the biggest issues will be faced by the next generation, who will find themselves having to solve an escalating climate crisis.

Nowadays, everyone has access to an innumerable amount of data, with millions of information and countless news. However, this data is not easily accessible and understandable. In fact, it can often appear incomprehensible to those who do not have very good scientific skills. For children and teenagers this is impossible, and this barrier in approaching scientific subjects leads many children every year to abandon science because they are scared and intimidated.

We cannot afford to lose such brilliant minds, who may hold the key to the solution to climate change and the restoring of our oceans.

For this reason we have decided to focus our efforts to make PACE, NASA's mission, more accessible. We want PACE to be a passion for all children and young people.

Our mission is mainly focused on a website, easily accessible by everyone on a PC and phone with an Internet connection. Our website will focus on several points to make PACE more accessible to everyone.

The website is developed on HTML and CSS, and it’s divided into different sections.

The first section is the home page, with a brief description of our mission, an explanatory video and description of what PACE is.

The second, third and fourth sections are entirely dedicated to learning. A student can access the various lessons dedicated to their class. They are divided into primary, middle and high school.

To make learning more interactive and hand-to-hand for high school students we have introduced a project that allows students to directly get hands-on with what they are studying. The project is a detailed guide on how to download images of PACE directly from NOAA satellites to school’s PCs. We plan to create more lessons and more projects for all students in the future.

In the fifth section we created an interactive game to test the knowledge that students have learned. The game was also developed in HTML and includes a series of multiple choice questions, with correction and final score. This innovative way of learning will help and facilitate learning.

In the sixth section there is the Choose Your Career path. Often students are scared of their own future, that’s why we created a section that describes the main figures in this mission followed by a personal test that students can take. The results will show what possible career they might choose in the future.

Finally, the final section is about the team, contacts and our sponsors.

This type of learning has numerous benefits for students and their learning. This type of learning is focused on creativity, making science personal and engaging for all students worldwide.

We also thought about a way to bring this type of education into daily lives. We created a social media page about the project, where everyday will be published a fun fact, an image and short video about PACE. In this way we know that we will engage more students. With sponsors, we aim to obtain funds to buy PCs, tablets and project’s material to collaborating schools.

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