Sixth Grade Challenger Field Trip

Every year the Sixth Grade class takes a field trip to the Challenger Learning Center in Suffern, N.Y. While there the "..... students take on the roles of astronauts, scientists, and engineers and launch into space. They look down on the Earth from orbit, land on the moon, explore the surface of Mars, or fly through a comet’s tail. Students’ science knowledge, problem-solving skills, teamwork, communications, and applied math all become real and meaningful. During this field trip they take part in a simulation in which they are mission controllers for a Challenger mission." (http://www.challenger.org/about/index.cfm).