UKube in the classroom - from space to Fukushima

我们提出了一个试点计划，建立了英国的第一个立方体卫星使命- UKube-1，由STFC赞助的知识转让伙伴关系的一部分，推出。开放大学的电子成像e2 v中心正在建造一个照相机模块，将在使命中发射，用于拍摄地球照片和研究太空辐射对照相机造成的损害。这方面特别及时，因为我们还可以鼓励关于辐射影响的知情辩论（例如，在日本最近的放射性释放之后）。我们的目标是为学生提供互动会议，包括一个简短的谈话，将我们的工作与他们在科学课程中的阶段联系起来，亲身体验飞行等效相机模块，以及为学生提供问答会议，以便他们能够找到他们真正想知道的关于使命的信息。因此，通过这个试点推广项目，我们的目标是：·为发射后和未来的UKube任务制定和展示外联战略（预计每年一次），学生可以通过完全运行的飞行等效设备获得实践经验。让学生参与我们的前沿研究，在他们的当地，在STFC赞助的UKube-1，英国的试点立方体卫星使命。在准备发射时激发对UKube-1的兴趣（目前计划于2012年9月发射）。·通过展示我们的博士生在UKube使命上的工作，激励学校学生在16岁以后学习物理和工程，并进入大学;他们只会比年长的学生提前4年，并将提供与之相关的经验。·为我们的STFC资助的博士生提供发展机会，向公众传播科学。展示学生在课程中学习的科学如何与太空任务相关和必不可少。例如，对于GCSE水平的学生，我们将把项目与电离辐射，重力和不同轨道的研究联系起来。与学生一起探索电离辐射的概念及其对地球和人类的影响（例如福岛的当前事件），以及对太空任务的影响。为了做到这一点，我们将事先调整相机，使它们能够像一个暴露在木星辐射中，一个暴露在地球轨道上，一个暴露在福岛的水平上（这种调整没有健康和安全方面的影响！）。学生将能够直接观察到辐射水平的增加如何降低学生拍摄的图像。·向学生展示如何将自己的移动的手机摄像头（CMOS）中的技术开发用于太空任务，将研究与日常生活联系起来。·通过问答环节回答学生关于项目的问题，在线提供更多信息。·以博客的形式创建一个在线存在，记录学生拍摄的图像，最重要的是学生提出的问题以及这些问题的答案，随着项目的进展，建立一个FAQ，了解学生真正想知道的内容，并链接到进一步的信息来源。这也将引入“乘数效应”，允许未参与该试点计划的教师使用该资源来领导他们自己的UKube使命课程。·在问答环节中与学生和教师讨论他们对该项目的看法，旨在不断改进，为发射后的外联活动（当图像将从卫星发送时）和未来的UKube任务（预计每年）提供计划。

We propose a pilot scheme to build up to the launch of the UK’s first CubeSat mission - UKube-1, part of a knowledge transferpartnership sponsored by STFC. The e2v Centre for Electronic Imaging at the Open University are building a camera module tobe launched on the mission to take pictures of the Earth and to study the damage caused to the camera by radiation in space.This aspect is particularly timely as we can also encourage informed debate about radiation effects (e.g. in Japan following therecent radioactivity releases). We aim to provide students with interactive sessions comprising of a short talk linking our work totheir stage in the science curriculum, hands-on experience with flight-equivalent camera modules and a question and answersession for the students so they can find out what they really want to know about the mission.Through this pilot outreach project we therefore aim to:• Develop and demonstrate an outreach strategy for post-launch and future UKube missions (expected annually) where pupils canget hands-on experience with fully operational flight-equivalent equipment.• Engage pupils in our frontier research, in their local area, on the STFC sponsored UKube-1, the UK’s pilot CubeSat mission.• Generate interest in UKube-1 in the build up to launch (currently scheduled for September 2012).• Motivate school students to study physics and engineering beyond 16 and on to university by demonstrating the work of our PhDstudents on the UKube mission; they will only be 4 years ahead of the older school students and will offer experiences that canbe related to.• Provide development opportunities for our STFC funded PhD students in communicating science to the public.• Demonstrate how the science that the students are learning in their curriculum is relevant and essential for space missions.For example, for GCSE level students we will link the project with the study of ionising radiation, gravity and different orbits.• Explore with students the concept of ionising radiation and its effect not only on Earth and people (e.g. current events inFukushima) but also on space missions. To do this we will have previously conditioned the cameras so that they will perform asthough one has been exposed to Jovian radiation, one to Earth orbit and one to levels at Fukushima (there are no Health andSafety implications in this conditioning!). The students will be able to directly observe how increasing radiation levels degradesthe images the students take.• Show the students how the technology in their own mobile phone cameras (CMOS) can be developed towards space missions,linking the research into their everyday lives.• To answer students’ questions about the project through question and answer sessions, providing further information online.• Create an online presence in the form of a blog to record the images taken by the students, and most importantly the questionsasked by the students and the answers to these questions, building up an FAQ as the project progresses of what the studentsreally want to know with links to sources of further information. This will also introduce a “multiplier effect”, allowing teachers notinvolved in this pilot scheme to use the resource to lead their own lessons on the UKube mission.• Discuss with the students and teachers in the question and answer sessions what they think about the project, aiming to bringcontinual improvement, feeding into plans for post-launch outreach activities (when images will be sent from the satellite) and forfuture UKube missions (expected annually).