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THE EVALUATION IS DIVIDED INTO FOUR METHODS:

 

1- THE QUESTIONS BELOW TO MEASURE THE DIRECT OUT COME OF THE ACTIVITY.

THE RESULTS OF THE ANSWERING PROCESS

2- THE ABILITY OF STUDENTS TO WORK COLLABORATIVELY IS A KIND OF EVALUATION.

3- THE ACTIVITY OF STUDENTS IS ALSO CONSIDERED IN THE EVALUATION.

4- THE QUESIONNAIRE RESULTS.

 

1-THE QUESTIONS

THIS EVALUATION IS DIRECTED TO THE STUDENTSS. THEY WILL ANSWER THE QUESTIONS, CHECK THE ANSWERS, AND TELL US HOW MANY CORRECT ANSWERS THEY HAD ANSWERED. THE TEACERS WILL NOT CHECK THE ANSWERS TO GIVE STUDENTS THE FEELING THAT WHAT THEY SAY IS TRUTH.

THE STUDENTS WHO DON.T HAVE ACCESS TO INTERNET TOOK THE QEUSTIONS PRINTED ON PAPERS.

AFTER YOU HAVE LOOKED FOR THE ANSWERS OF THE QUESTIONS BELOW, YOU ARE KINDLY REQUESTED TO CHECK IF YOUR ANSWERS ARE CORRECT OR NOT.

PLEASE TELL HOW MANY CORRECT ANSWERS YOU KNOW.

 

CLICK ON TE QUESTION TO SEE THE ANSWER

Some answers are for astronauts

1-Why Space, Why Explore?
2-How can we Increase Understanding of Space? 
3-How does NASA make sure space shuttles don't collide with satellites or other things orbiting the Earth?
4-What is the difference between an asteroid and a meteor, or does it remain an asteroid?
5-Can you use a cell phone when in space?
6-Is it true that somewhere in the universe there’s more life?
7- Is astronaut training difficult?
8-Why does the space shuttle never fly over the North or South poles?
9- How does the astronaut go to the bathroom during any of the missions?
10-What is the best characteristic or opportunity about becoming an astronaut?
11-Do you think a space shuttle will be sent to Pluto?
12-How do the outfits the astronauts wear feel?

13-How many people can the station hold?

14-What do astronauts do for entertainment and recreation?

15-What things do astronauts use to eat in space? How are they different?

16-What would happen if I was in space and not wearing a space suit?

1- We have no choice, Sir. It is the Nature of Humanity, it is the Nature of Life
The Globe was created and Life Evolved, and you look at every single cubic millimeter on this Earth, You can go 30,000 feet down below the Earth surface, You can go 40,000 feet up in the air and Life is There. When you look at the globe down there, you see Teeming Life Everywhere
It is the Power of Life, And maybe I am not just a Human up here, you know. Now Life is Leaping off the Planet. It is heading to other parts of the Solar System, other parts of the Universe
There are those kinds of Pressures. It isn't simply politics, it is not simply technology, it is really not just the essence of humanity, but it is sort of also, you could look at it as maybe the Essence of Life. I think Teilhard de Chardin, in Phenomenon of Man, I believe he put that incredibly well. So those kind of Forces are at Work. It is the nature of humans to be exploratory and to Push On
Yes, it costs resources and it does cost a lot, and there is a risk, there is a penalty, there is a down side, but Exploration and Pioneering, I think those are the critical things, it is the Essence of what Human Beings are, and that is to try to understand their Universe and to try to participate in the entire Universe and not just their little Neighborhood

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2- We enter into Space, it is almost like a new Frontier, it is in ways similar to the way one Culture Moves into another Culture, the Frontiers we have had on Earth
I think the Lessons are very Clear though, that you can not Understand another Culture, you can not Understand another Reality, another Place, by taking yourself there and saying: "I am going to Remain Who I am, I am going to Carry my other Culture with Me"
You need to Leave that Behind
The important thing is, that you Surrender to the new Place, the new Culture, you Become It
It is Impossible to Understand a Place if you want to Conquer it, it is Surrender to it, that is the Way that you can Understand it

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3- Good question. The United States Air Force tracks every object in Earth's orbit down to the size of a mitten. In fact there's a space glove orbiting around out there that someone lost. If one of those objects is heading towards the shuttle, NASA moves the shuttle into a higher or lower orbit. They track the objects using radar.

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4- it's an asteroid outside the atmosphere and a meteor once it enters the atmosphere.

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5-Sure. As long as you have a cell transmitter on your spaceship and the spaceship to which you are talking has a cell receiver. You can't use it to talk to the ground because you'd be too far away; the signal from your cell phone would be too weak to reach the ground. Radio waves propagate just as well in space as they do on near Earth.

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6- We don't know. There may be lots and it's conceivable that there's none. Astronomers are looking hard, but we truly don't know.

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7-You meet the same tests everyone else does. There is a bottom line every single day. It is not just periodic physical exams and running on treadmills. You get into an airplane and fly with people who trust their lives to your ability to fly. If you are not flying right, the community knows about it in one huge hurry, like now! If you are unable to do the job in an EVA suit, you find out every minute. Spaceflight does not require you to be an Olympian. The reason to be fit is to work 16 hours a day, decade after decade, to still hang in there. Then when you need to kick in a little more, it is there. It gives you some margin working in the space suit, although you should not need it. You want to design tools and the work so that it does not take muscle. If I am using muscle in a suit I stop in my tracks and say: "What are you doing wrong"? General spaceflight does not require superfitness

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8- The Space Shuttle has gone as high as 57 degrees latitude, however, it requires much more energy to go up to the higher latitudes. Launching straight East from Florida uses the Earth's rotation to provide the spaceship with a free velocity of 1200 feet per second. The higher in latitude, the more rotation velocity is lost.

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9- Going to the bathroom can be totally similar to the way it is down here. The bathroom is designed very much like the architecture of a bathroom down here. You can use that in zero-gravity very similar to the way you do here, because we have air flow to entrap the materials, control them, and bring those material to the right place. However zero-gravity does give you the opportunity to do things in a different orientation. You can go to the bathroom upside down, you can hook your toes to the top of the bathroom, and do things that way. And so that's one of the opportunities you have up there, that would be kind of disastrous down here

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10- One must be a team player, work well with other people, and the perspective to see all the various factors that go into space. To live in and do things in space, you do need some unique specialties. You need something that you uniquely bring to the table, a reason for bringing you up there. You need to make your own contribution, but at the same time working as a team member

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11- No, because the space shuttle only carries enough water and air for a few weeks for the astronauts on board, but it takes 10 years to get to Pluto. So any space voyage to Pluto would have to be in a much more sophisticated and advanced vessel than the space shuttle — and this spacecraft doesn't yet exist.

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12- Astronaut clothing is generally no different from outfits you wear on the ground, except that in their selection we have to observe special criteria of comfort and safety peculiar to life onboard a space vehicle. For example, they have to be made from fire retardant material. When you wear them in microgravity, you are actually "floating" inside you clothing, so you feel "dressed" only when and where it touches your skin

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13 The ISS is being built to hold a maximum crew of seven. Crew size starts out with three and goes to six, then seven beginning 2003. Of course, there never will be more people on board than could return all at once in an emergency. That's why NASA is developing the CRV (Crew Return Vehicle) to accommodate four more occupants than the earlier Russian-supplied Soyuz capsules can carry.

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14- Whatever they individually prefer. They do take their own preference kits along on their missions. Some read or write e-mails home on their laptops, others listen to music or play games. Again others just chat with folks on the ground via ham radio or with other crewmembers. However, for nearly all of them, at least in the early stages of their mission, the most preferred pastime is hanging around the windows, looking out into space and watching Earth roll by underneath.

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15- Basic utensils like knives, forks and spoons are the same as on the ground. The crew can eat most any food or beverage that can be restrained in a container. Otherwise, it may float off during the attempt to consume it. Foods such as peas, beans, etc. usually are prepared in a sauce so that they will stick to the eating utensil. Foods can be served hot, cold, or frozen. Beverages are ingested using a squeeze bottle like today's sport bottles. However, some things are not currently available to the crew. They have stated that for long term missions they long for fresh vegetables and freshly-perked coffee. On the Russian Mir space station, by the way, fresh fruits and vegetables, like tomatoes, are available whenever the Progress resupply vehicles arrive, and, as US astronaut Shannon Lucid has recounted, cosmonauts usually make a joyous feast of them. Plants are being grown experimentally aboard the Shuttle and Mir. Perhaps in future years fresh vegetables will be available on the Space Station and on Mars expeditions. Freshly perked coffee and carbonated drinks remain a challenge, but at least one soft-drink company is already experimenting with container designs for use in micro-g. By the way, since crewmembers' sinuses fill with fluid as the body fluids reach equistatic pressure, the senses of taste and smell are reduced. Hence, astronauts on-orbit always prefer food to be more highly seasoned in order to taste acceptable.

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16- Your body would explode because you generate pressure to fight off the pressure of the Earth's atmosphere. In space there's no atmosphere or pressure to react against.

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THE RESULTS

- The total number of questions is 16 questions

- The total number of the students in both schools is 55 students.

- The total number of the possible answers is 880 answers.

- The total number of the actual answers is 814 answers.

- The total number of the correct answers is 710 answers.

- The most difficult questions were: 2, 3 and 8.

- The easiest questions were: 4, 11, 13, 15, 16.

- Twenty students didnot answer all the questions

- The best answers were for Janou Attalah, Moustafah Yehia.

- Question 4 got 54 correct anwers.

- Question 3 got 6 correct anwers.

2- THE COLLABORATIVE WORK:

Students were encouraged to work in groups, at the end of this project we can say that this goal was acheived in an acceptable way, because there were some excellent students more than others. this created a kind of imbalance between the activities within the same group. to solve this we did the following:

We asked the "weak" student in each group to speak, the others in the group must help him by reminding him of some ideas. this gave some success.

THE ACTIVITIES OF THE STUDENTS:

Here we can say that this kind of evaluation is nearly subjective  rather than objective. we asked the groups to work in this project. the results were as follos:

1- Students who were very active, searched for all necessary information in an organized way, presented their ideas to the classrom in an excellent way, and wrote a convincing artile about the subject.

some of theses students:

In Joul Jammal:

Rhoda Moustafa, Moustafa Yehea, Ali Mouhammad, Marcel Bittar, Basel Shahoud, Janou Attallah, Moustafa Saloum,  Hannah Mansour, Hannah Henenou, Moustafa Jamal, Adham Naser, Ahed Jadid, Ali Ghannam.

In Ein Al-Arwous:

2- Students who were active, searched for some of necessary information in an acceptable way, presented their ideas to the classrom in an good way, and wrote a convincing artile about the subject.

some of theses students:

In Joul Jammal:

Amer Ibrahim, Ali Ibrahim, Ahmad Abdoul-Ghany, Georg Jabbour, Morece Saloum, Mouhammad Kehaileh, Zyad Abdoush,

In Ein Al-Arwous:

3- Students who werenot so active, searched for one of necessary questions in an acceptable way, presented their ideas to the classrom in an good way, and wrote some sentences about the subject.

some of theses students:

In Joul Jammal:

Mouhammad Sayed, Mouhammad Abboush, Imad Abdoul-Haq, Mouhammad Deeb.

In Ein Al-Arwous:

4- THE QUESIONNAIRE RESULTS.

The URL of the quesionnaire : http://www.surveymonkey.com/Users/08791543/Surveys/940241969539/CFC967A5-DFBB-43BD-9270-CEFB6A819D58.asp?U=940241969539&DO_NOT_COPY_THIS_LINK

The total number of the answers was 103 (limited to the version of the program).

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We couldnot know If the students answered the questions or there were others answered tha questions also. Thank to all who answered the questions in the quesionnaire.

1- The total number of questions is 10.

2- The total number of the answers is 1030.

Summary of the some results:

Question number 1:

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When the Astronauts sleep aboard the Space Shuttle, they sometimes sleep in compartments (i.e. bunks). Why are these bunks necessary?

The answers:

a- The shuttle moves so much that the astronauts would be hurt if they were not securely restrained.

got 68% of the answers, there were 70 answers.

b- On missions with two shifts, the working shift would wake the sleepers up.

got 13.6% of the answers, there were 14 answers.

c- Some astronauts find it difficult to float in sleeping bags

got 8.7% of the answers, there were 9 answers.

d- Some astronauts prefer more privacy on longer missions.

got 14.6% of the answers, there were 15 answers.

Questions number 2 and 3:

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Questions number 4 and 5:

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Questions number 6 and 7:

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Questions number 8 and 9:

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