Teacher eager to apply lessons from space camp to classroom
Growing up, Kerrie Badalucco always wanted to go to space camp.
She never had the money to do it as a child, but the Gardnerville teacher’s dream came true this summer when she went on a scholarship from Honeywell.
“When I found out about it, I did a cartwheel in my living room I was so excited,” said Badalucco, 23.
Badalucco, a sixth-grade teacher at C.C. Meneley Elementary School, attended the camp from June 28 to July 2 in Huntsville, Ala., one of 280 teachers from around the world on Honeywell scholarships.
Activities included simulations of shuttle missions, being in a drowning helicopter, being lowered in a parachute, an egg drop, making bottle rockets out of 2-liter bottles and real rockets from a kit.
They learned ways to incorporate National Aeronautics and Space Administration experiences into teaching math, such as listening to air traffic controls to calculate the distance of how far planes were from each other and from their destination or calculating the distance to Mars and the speed you’d need be traveling to land.
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