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There are two ways to browse the site: (1) use the search button above to find specific materials using keywords; or,
(2) go to specific headings like history, principles or careers at specific levels above and click on the button. 
Teachers may go directly to the Teachers' Guide from the For Teachers button above or site browse as in (1) and  (2).

ALLSTAR Teacher Resource Guide

This section was developed just for teachers

Here you will find specific curriculum objectives correlated to National Science Standards and Florida's Sunshine State Standards to help you use the ALLSTAR site with lesson plans and curriculum.

Overview of the Teachers guide:

	Program Objectives - What ALLSTAR's Goals Are.
	Expected Outcomes - What We Expect to Accomplish.
	National Standards -                                 Science and                                 Math
	Florida State Standards - Science, Math and Social Studies and School-to-Work
	Schools around the country using ALLSTAR Schools with ALLSTAR Kiosks Schools using ALLSTAR around the nation & world Use of ALLSTAR within FIU
	National Standards Covered on the ALLSTAR web site!     Science:  National Standards Overview  Start here if the standards are new to you! The National Science Content Standards outline what students should know, understand, and be able to do in the natural sciences over the course of K-12 education. They are divided into eight categories. Select the category and grade level appropriate for your students. Unifying concepts and processes in science. K-12 Science as inquiry K-4 5-8 9-12 Level 2 9-12 Level 3 Physical science K-4 5-8 9-12 Level 2 9-12 Level 3 Life science                      Not Available (at present) Earth and space science.   Not Available (at present) Science and technology K-4 5-8 9-12 Level 2 9-12 Level 3 Science in personal and social perspective K-4 5-8 9-12 Level 2 9-12 Level 3 History and nature of science K-4 5-8 9-12 Level 2 9-12 Level 3        Math: National Standards Overview Start here if the standards are new to you! The Mathematics Standards outline what the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics believe that students should know, understand, and be able to do in mathematics over the course of K-12 education. They are divided into twenty-seven categories. Select the category and grade level appropriate for your students.   Curriculum Standard Grades Grades Grades PROBLEM SOLVING K-4 5-8 9-12 COMMUNICATION K-4 5-8 9-12 REASONING K-4 5-8 9-12 MATH CONNECTIONS K-4 5-8 9-12 ESTIMATION K-4 NUMBER SENSE AND NUMERATION K-4 NUMBER AND NUMBER RELATIONSHIPS 5-8 NUMBER SYSTEMS AND NUMBER THEORY 5-8 CONCEPTS OF WHOLE NUMBER OPERATIONS K-4 WHOLE NUMBER COMPUTATION K-4 COMPUTATION AND ESTIMATION 5-8 ALGEBRA  5-8 9-12 GEOMETRY:  SPATIAL SENSE K-4 GEOMETRY 5-8 GEOMETRY:  ALGEBRAIC PERSPECTIVE 9-12 GEOMETRY:  SYNTHETIC PERSPECTIVE 9-12 TRIGONOMETRY 9-12 FRACTIONS AND DECIMALS K-4 MEASUREMENT K-4 5-8 STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY K-4 STATISTICS 5-8 9-12 PROBABILITY  5-8 9-12 PATTERNS AND RELATIONSHIPS K-4 PATTERNS AND FUNCTIONS 5-8 9-12 DISCRETE MATHEMATICS 9-12 CONCEPTUAL UNDERPINNINGS OF CALCULUS 9-12 MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURE 9-12       Florida's Sunshine State Standards Covered on the Allstar Website:   Select the category and grade level appropriate for your students.                     Science: The Nature of Matter 3-5 6-8 9-12 Level 2 9-12 Level 3 Energy 3-5 6-8 9-12 Level 2 9-12 Level 3 Force and Motion  3-5 6-8 9-12 Level 2 9-12 Level 3 Nature of science 3-5 6-8 9-12 Level 2 9-12 Level 3                     Math: Number Sense, Concepts, and Operations 3-5 6-8 9-12 Level 2 9-12 Level 3 Measurement 3-5 6-8 9-12 Level 2 9-12 Level 3 Geometry and Spatial Sense 3-5 6-8 9-12 Level 2 9-12 Level 3  Algebraic Thinking 3-5 6-8 9-12 Level 2 9-12 Level 3 Data Analysis and Probability 3-5 6-8 9-12 Level 2 9-12 Level 3                    Social Studies: People, Places and the Environment (Geography) 3-5 6-8 9-12 Level 2 9-12 Level 3 Government and the Citizen (Civics and Government) 3-5 6-8 9-12 Level 2 9-12 Level 3 Time, Continuity and Change (History) 3-5 6-8 9-12 Level 2 9-12 Level 3 Other (History, Biographies and Other Things) 3-5 6-8 9-12 Level 2 9-12 Level 3                    Careers, School-to-Work and Higher Education: Careers in the Aeronautics/Aviation Field 3-5 6-8 9-12 Level 2 9-12 Level 3 School-to-Work   6-8 9-12 Level 2 9-12 Level 3 Technical and Engineering Higher Education     9-12 Level 2 9-12 Level 3

If you use this site in your classroom or in your lesson plans, let us know. We will acknowledge you on our web site. We may showcase your school and / or classroom!

Our program objectives for this project are as follows:

1. We expect to develop an innovative environment for encouraging minority students to study and pursue the Aeronautics discipline;
2. We intend to increase the number of minorities pursuing BS, MS and Ph.D. degrees in the Aeronautics field;
3. We will further enhance successful outreach programs, such as FLAME, to attract students that are not already part of these programs;
4. We will develop new courses of instruction and in the process create a rich new learning environment for Aeronautics;
5. We will establish a digital communications means (via the Internet) for dissemination of and access to the ALLSTAR software;
6. We will demonstrate and test the ALLSTAR scalability and encourage and facilitate ongoing use of the ALLSTAR at both pre-college and community college levels; and,
7. We will support ongoing software enhancement, commercialization and marketing of the ALLSTAR software products.
8. Provide a resource for teachers who want to use the Internet for Aerospace Education in their classroom.

Expected Outcomes for this project are as follows:

1. Significant improvement in both the delivery of and quality of Aeronautics and related instruction;
2. An increase in the number of minority Aeronautical engineering applicants and those successfully matriculating through the program;
3. A reduction in number of transfer students from Aeronautics;
4. Development of high quality, feature rich ALLSTAR and related software products;
5. Measurable increase in the use of a digital communications as an effective means of educational instruction and outreach; and,
6. Broad academic and commercial marketing of the ALLSTAR software.

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Updated: March 12, 2004