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Create a Mascot
Comic magazine
Summary
Our project is mainly a comic magazine that targets thethe young audience who are interested in exploring moreabout Earth and space sciences. This magazine providesa cartoonish story that is merged with a simpleexplanation of different scientific concepts and funnyillustrations of the characters to simplify the concepts.Some factors that make the magazine special are, Firstof all, The magazine will be available in printed anddigital editions to serve more readers, the comic willhave a QR code within each page that will providesome features as reading the story, and animated video.Secondly, interactive scientific activities that are simplefor kids to show their creativity.
How We Addressed This Challenge
We are not developing ideas we are creating a new idea by bringing an old idea back to life -magazines- and representing it by our voice and style, combining it with technical aspects to suit our generation.
Our main aim is to simplify complicated concepts to the small brains of the children and make learning about Earth and Space science more fun and welcoming for younger audiences because scientific information can often feel inaccessible, especially to young learners. So, we developed a children's magazines to make it our tool to reach the scientific concepts to their minds by different techniques. First, we made comics, short and long stories about topics related to Earth and Space science in a funny way that can encourage kids to read and learn facts. Second, we provided illustrations that will have a great advantage to penetrate through the kids’ imagination. Third, we will make a QR code to be scanned with options like reading the story with a narrator's voice to make young kids read and understand, adding animated videos, and translating to another language. Fourth, The magazine will include many activities and section between the stories included per edition like “Strange but true”, a biography about important characters in Astronomy and Earth sciences, quizzes, and crafts related to Astronomy.
The magazine will be a helpful tool for kids to access information and facts that are hard to access and also make learning about Earth and Space science more fun and welcoming for younger audiences.
We hope that our magazine becomes popular among kids and be from the most helpful ways of learning about Earth and Space sciences. We will publish more editions and volumes in different countries in many languages.
How We Developed This Project
We aren’t developing ideas we are creating a new idea by bringing an old idea back to life and combine it with technical aspects to suit our century.
Our main aim is to simplify complex concepts to the small brains of the children in a funny way.
So we choose the children's magazines to make it our tool to reach the scientific concepts to their minds. But we develop it to be digital with lots of comfy options. the main reason to choose the e-magazine is to boost the reading, listening, and imagination skills. There will be a QR code option to be scanned, then we will have three options one to read the story with the narrator's voice to make the children that are earlier to read can understand. the second option is to watch animated videos because it will have a superior power to develop the children's imagination and creative skills. The last option is translating to another language.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
We have collected our data from different sources which are simplified to be added in the script that kids can read. First, we have collected data about the first journey to the moon Apollo 11 from the following links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cSD3ybC0Os
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo11.html
As we used this information to know more about the details of the journey and merge these details with the story script.
Second, we have collected data about the building structure of the rocket, how the rocket can launch from the earth, and the whole journey from the earth to the moon, from the following links:
https://www.nasa.gov/content/ultra-high-definition-video-gallery How We Are Going to the Moon - 4K
https://images.nasa.gov/details-April 2020 SLS Resource Reel Short Form (V1)
and we have simplified this data and information by an easy and funny way in our story script to be eligible for the children.
Third, to ensure that our magazine is perfect and inspiring we have used different tools to make it interactive with the children, one of the activities we used is how to make a rocket from sticks and we have took the steps of constructing the rocket from the following link:
https://images.nasa.gov/details-NHQ_2020_0427_How to Make Demo-2 Straw Rockets
Data & Resources
Nasa Administration programmer system. [Nasa Administration programmer system]. (2015, Nov 23) Apollo 11 journey from earth to moon[video]. YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cSD3ybC0Os
Dunbar, B. (2015, February 19). July 20, 1969: One Giant Leap For Mankind. Retrieved October 04, 2020, from
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo11.html
Loff, S. (2016, April 19). Ultra High Definition Video. Retrieved October 04, 2020, from https://www.nasa.gov/content/ultra-high-definition-video-gallery (how we are going to the moon)
Science ABC. [Science ABC]. (2018, Oct 4) Rocket Science: How Rockets Work - A Short and Basic Explanation [video]. YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI-HeXhsUIg&feature=youtu.be
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https://images.nasa.gov/details-NHQ_2020_0427_How to Make Demo-2 Straw Rockets
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https://images.nasa.gov/details-April 2020 SLS Resource Reel Short Form (V1)