Distance Learning Network Brings Lessons From NASA To Fifth-Graders

The St. Petersburg Times (6/10, Ritchie) reports that recently, students in Juretta Carr's science classes at Moton Elementary School in Brooksville, Florida, "took advantage of special equipment and a distance learning network...to bring Damon Talley, the Digital Learning Network coordinator at NASA, to the classroom." The fifth-graders "talked and interacted with Talley just as if he were right in the room with them." He demonstrated several science experiments for them "for about 45 minutes...asking students what they thought would happen." Talley's "lesson reinforced what the students had learned in class and was so new and interesting that everyone was engaged," the St. Petersburg Times adds.