session 1

Title: Ignition - Primary Space Education
Description: This session will focus on all aspects of primary space education, i.e. up to a student age of 11.
Date: 2013-09-23
Time: 15:15
Room: 302A

IPC members

Chairman: Dr. Gulnara T. Omarova, Astrophysical Institute, Kazakhstan;
Chairman: Mr. Michael Pakakis, Victorian Space Science Education Centre, Australia;
Rapporteur: Ms. Kerrie Dougherty, Australia;

papers
Order	Paper title	Selection result	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	Incorporating “From Blue to Red – the First Human Mission to Mars’ – as ignition for education and outreach at the elementary school level.	accepted	20'	withdrawn	Mr. Ross McIntyre		Canada
2	The Effects on Math Achievement and Attitudes when Incorporating Satellite Education in a 4th Grade Classroom	accepted	20'	confirmed	Mrs. Margot Solberg	Ecuadorian Civilian Space Agency (EXA)	Ecuador
3	THE "TO LIGHTEN THE DREAM OF OUTER SPACE FOR JUVENILE" PROGRAM	accepted	20'	confirmed	Ms. Yu Cao	Beijing Institute of Electronic System Engineering, China	China
4	Novae Distribution in the Andromeda Galaxy: A Springboard for Engaging Young Students in Space Science	accepted	20'	withdrawn	Ms. Kyla Borders	Peninsula High School	United States
5	Analysis of the Knowledge and Attitudes of Primary and Junior Secondary School Teachers Towards Space Science and Technology	accepted	20'	withdrawn	Mrs. Oluwatoyin Ajayi	African Regional Center for Space Science and Technology Education in English (ARCSSTE-E)	Nigeria
6	The role of the Mexican Space Agency in the development of human capital in the space field in Mexico.	accepted	20'	confirmed	Prof. Carlos Duarte	Agencia Espacial Mexicana (AEM)	Mexico
7	Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Conceptualization of Cosmic Dimensions	accepted	20'		Dr. Chuck Fidler		United States