Woman and Space

While most people know of Neil Armstrong and his historic first steps on the surface of the moon, not many know about the woman who helped put him there, Margaret Hamilton. Without her tireless efforts to write the computer code for the lunar lander, Neil would not have been the first human to walk on the moon. And Margaret is not the only woman who has had a lasting impact on the exploration of space and the technologies developed for it. 

雖然大部分的人都知道阿姆斯壯(Neil Armstrong)以及他在月球表面所邁出的歷史性一步，卻很少人知道幫助他登陸的女性科學家瑪格麗特·漢密爾頓(Margaret Hamilton)。如果不是她不懈努力的編寫月球著陸器的電腦代碼，阿姆斯壯不會成為第一位在月球漫步的人，而瑪格麗特並不是唯一對太空探索和相關技術產生深遠影響的女性。 

For their first project of the school year, the Grade 9 Global Learners learned about some of the amazing women who have helped increase our knowledge of what is beyond our planet. From Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to travel into space, to Katherine Johnson, one of the first African American women to work on NASA’s space program and whose mathematical calculations helped figure out the safest way to orbit the Earth, to Peggy Whitson, the first woman to command the International Space Station (twice!) and the holder of the most time in space for any American astronaut, they learned about some of the pioneering women in space exploration and how these women have been role models for the many who have come after them. 

國際英語班九年級的學生，在本學年的第一個項目中，學習了幾位傑出女性，她們幫助人類增進對太空的認識，從瓦倫蒂娜·捷列什科娃(Valentina Tereshkova)，她是第一位進入太空的女性；到凱瑟琳·約翰遜(Katherine Johnson)，她是首位在美國NASA工作的非裔女性，她運用數學計算找出環繞地球最安全的路徑。還有佩吉·惠特森(Peggy Whitson)，她是第一位負責管理國際太空站的女性(共有2次)，也是在太空中待最長時間的人。

透過課程，九年級國際英語班的學生認識了這些太空領域的先驅者，也了解到這些女性典範人物如何成為後人的表率。 

To share what they learned, the students were tasked with writing a short biography about one of the many women they learned about, describing her life and contributions to space exploration. They were also tasked with creating a diorama that reflected the working environment of the woman they chose to write about, showing the job and tools used by their subject. While the dioramas initially seemed somewhat challenging for the students, they rose to the challenge and did an excellent job coming up with some very creative and interesting dioramas. They also did great work on their biographies, creating concise but informative descriptions of their subjects and clearly showing not just how those incredible women furthered humankind’s knowledge, but how they showed to women around the world that anything is possible and that they too can reach for the stars. 

在課程中，學生們需要撰寫一篇傳記，介紹她們所學習到的女性典範人物，包含描述她的生平以及對太空探索的貢獻。學生還需要創作一個立體模型，來表現出該人物的工作環境。雖然創作立體模型對學生來說有些挑戰，但最終大家都完成了任務，創作出富有創意及趣味性的立體模型。

同時，學生在傳記的寫作上也表現出色，精簡地描述了這些女性典範人物如何促進了人類對太空的知識，向全世界的女性展示了「一切皆有可能，每個人都有可能觸碰到星星。」