, I thought I'd let the classroom-oriented group know that I have created a presentation geared to the US elementary grade level (grades 1-6), and I have sent a copy to Dr. Bryan Mendez at UCB for his review. He said that they had already developed presentations geared to middle and high school levels, but nothing targeted at the elementary grades, so I decided to put one together.When I get feedback from him (and I'm not expecting that very soon!) I would be glad to release it to anyone who might be interested. I gave a presentation with it on Tuesday, 8/1 (yes, launch-day, which was totally unplanned!) and it went very well - the audience was a group of about 25-30 day camp kids.
Let me know via this post or though a personal message to me (cthiker) and, if the Berkeley group has no objection, I will forward it on to your email address. Please note that, in its current form, it is over 40MB zipped (beware those with limits on their email attachments from their ISP)!! It includes several NASA movies as well as lots of pictures/graphics - all from public domains - intended to keep the young ones' attention, and the last slide has a direct link to S@H.
I'll let everyone know about any feedback I get in the interim (although Bryan, et. al., please feel free to post such feedback right here!).
Thanks, and all the best to my fellow dusters!!
Jeff