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[arunvarun08]

hi, my name is Arun. I have been teaching science for 3 years now. This year in our school we have introduced a new activity for students to increase their knowledge about space and i am incharge of this club. I wanted to know if there are any programs that can be introduced as an activity for the students? It can be anything.

[sharath.kumar34]

You can take them to some space museums in your city or you can also arrange for a movie about space.

[Unregistered]

What grade are you teaching?

[arunvarun08]

Visiting Museum is a pretty good option, but it will the same old monotonous visit to the museum. I mean, walking in a line, not allowed to touch the equipments there. All you can do it watch or read. I feel that its boring for 8th standards students just to watch and not experience anything. Is there a place where you can experience a astronauts life?

[aradhanarohan]

I completely agree with you. Education can be made fun. It should involve more mental and physical activity rather than sitting in a classroom and listening to boring lectures. Attending the Space Camp program is a better option for students. There are many programs organized for students of different age group. Space Camp is one such opportunity for students. Students here can experience realistic training sessions that astronauts go through, space shot, underwater astronaut training etc. For any details on this you can log in to www.spacecampindia.com

[arunvarun08]

This is what i was talking about. Space Camp is one golden opportunity for students to experience an astronauts life. This program gives you an experience of your life time. I thank you aradhana for providing me that link.

[rosetaylor01]

For millions of years, space was out of reach for humans stranded here on planet Earth. Like any inaccessible object, it was much dreamed about and inspired many different interpretations. Indeed, for centuries the heavens were believed to be the realm of the gods bathing in everlasting happiness.

Humans had to find out the truth, and the only way was to see things for themselves. When they got there, they found no divine presence but a strange place without air, noise or smells. Space proved to be a paradox of nature, at once so empty and yet so hostile, both a world of silence and a source of incredibly high-energy phenomena.

[Stewart Jared]

Hello guys!

Space is the boundless, three-dimensional extent in which objects and events occur and have relative position and direction.Physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions, although modern physicists usually consider it, with time, to be part of the boundless four-dimensional continuum known as spacetime. In mathematics one examines 'spaces' with different numbers of dimensions and with different underlying structures. The concept of space is considered to be of fundamental importance to an understanding of the physical universe although disagreement continues between philosophers over whether it is itself an entity, a relationship between entities, or part of a conceptual framework.

Many of the philosophical questions arose in the 17th century, during the early development of classical mechanics. In Isaac Newton's view, space was absolute - in the sense that it existed permanently and independently of whether there were any matter in the space.Other natural philosophers, notably Gottfried Leibniz, thought instead that space was a collection of relations between objects, given by their distance and direction from one another. In the 18th century, Immanuel Kant described space and time as elements of a systematic framework which humans use to structure their experience.

In the 19th and 20th centuries mathematicians began to examine non-Euclidean geometries, in which space can be said to be curved, rather than flat. According to Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, space around gravitational fields deviates from Euclidean space.Experimental tests of general relativity have confirmed that non-Euclidean space provides a better model for explaining the existing laws of mechanics and optics.Online fire science (http://www.cogswell.edu/)