Vol. 1, No. 1, March 1963 - "Aerospace"

DEVELOPMENT OF THE EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE PROGRAM IN PENNSYLVANIA

(pp. 1 - 5)

Dr. Charles H. Boehm, Superintendent if Public Instruction

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Abstract

How did Pennsylvania grow from little taught in the subject of aerospace to the offering of the comprehensive Earth and Space Science Course in three years? On of the keys to the success of the operation was the preparation of the teaching guide in 1958. When one understands the limiting factors under which it was organized, he will see why it is what it is. The guide was made by a group of fifteen people, six of them doing the most writing.

GEOGRAPHY'S AEROSPACE DIMENSION

(pp. 6 - 7)

Dr. Frank E. Sorenson, Professor of Education and Lecturer in Geography

University of Nebraska Teachers College

Lincoln, Nebraska

Abstract

Indeed, this is the Aerospace Age! Just when this new age of man began would be difficult to determine. We do know, however, that learned men were inquisitive about the aerospace environment long before the birth of Christ. The evidences of this early interest are recorded in legend and mythology.

GEOGRAPHY - SPATIAL SCIENCE FOR AEROSPACE

(pp. 8 - 9)

Mamie L. Anderzohn, Associate Professor of Geography

Indiana State College

Terre Haute, Indiana

Abstract

Geography is an integral part of every person's life. Of all the subjects a student studies geography is one of the most intimately connected with daily living. Everywhere he looks he sees in the natural and cultural environments signs of man's use and occupancy in changing and interlocking relationships distributed and arranged from place to place. These may be similar or different in their associated relationships. They involve location and measurement. A study of geography helps the individual see himself in an ever-changing cultural and physical environment. The student develops the ability and power to think spatially about changing uses of resources and human settlements on the earth. When a person studies geography he is involved in thinking about the spatial locations and distributions of physical and cultural phenomena as deep into the earth and as far above the earth as man's activities will go. Knowledge and skill acquired from thinking geographically enhances the learner's sense of value as a citizen in his community, state, nation, world, and universe.

SOME ASPECTS OF AEROSPACE EDUCATION WORKSHOPS

(pp. 10 - 13)

D. Willard Zahn, Dean

College of Education

Temple University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Abstract

Temple University's College of Education accepts with eagerness the responsibilities of leadership inherent in the Aerospace Education Workshop, for it puts us in partnership with the here and now - and that seems to be a highly desirable point of view.