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Visitor Complex. The Salute to Science, the Salute to Homeschoolers and the Salute to Scouts are exciting field trip opportunities for large groups of 100 or more.These student explorers enjoy the opportunity to meet an astronaut and learn firsthand in a private session about the latest NASA accomplishments and goals for the future. One of the programs’ highlights is the opportunity to engage in a hands-on, minds-on Team Engineering Challenge. If you want to take the learning experience to greater heights, your students will love the Overnight Adventure.They are invited to bring their sleeping bags and camp out indoors underneath the gigantic Saturn V moon rocket, the world’s largest rocket.This experience provides the students with an opportunity to truly gain a deeper appreciation as they are immersed in the past, present and future of space exploration. They can touch a real moon rock, see artifacts from previously flown space trips and understand the various factors involved in space flights.This program is designed for school, scout and youth groups entering 2nd-9th grades. As you are guiding your students along the journey at Kennedy Space Center, you can challenge them to complete the “Explorers Logbook,” a workbook designed to engage students while leading them on a tour of the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.These booklets are grade specific and they include educational activities, scavenger hunts and writing exercises. To help take this experience back into the classroom, NASA also provides resources to help teachers with their lesson plans. An Educator Study Pass is available to Florida and Georgia K-12 educators. The study pass provides educators with a complimentary admission ticket with year-round access to the Visitor Complex and KSC’s Educator Resource Center.The study pass is designed to help plan field trips and discover interesting facts to integrate into science, math and space exploration curriculums. For more information, visit at www.Kennedy SpaceCenter.com/youth-education.aspx.
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