High-Level Project Summary
We wrote a children's book telling about Lucy's story. Our goal is to contribute to the promotion of science in childhood through a simple, objective and colorful narrative of the character Lucy. The book can be used for reading at home, or for classroom activities.At the end, children can record a video telling what they would put in the time capsule if they were Lucy, and this will increase these children's engagement with NASA's mission.
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Detailed Project Description
The children's book can be used as a reading at home by children's parents and also at school by teachers, to introduce astronomy into children's lives and thus inform science.
We validate the idea with parents and teachers. And after carrying out the construction of the narrative, we validate it again, to adapt the language and images.
Books in childhood can provide a link between children and science that generates passion, and so, in the future we may have young people who want to become scientists.
At the end of the book we leave a QR code of the project's social network so that teachers and parents can send videos of children telling what they would put in the time capsule if they were Lucy.
To carry out the proposal, we used Google forms in the ideation phase, we wrote the script using the resources that NASA provided, we chose photos from NASA's image bank, we used the Canva website to consolidate, and because the format was mandatory to be in image or video , we chose to post a video on youtube. However, the book is available in PDF in Portuguese and English versions for subtitles the video editor Movavi, the translation was done with google translate.
PT - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q29cGtvWDkd3cL5VnoMEVksfRv4J3UcG/view?usp=sharing
EN - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cZL60yJh4EM1sg8XYBQAt-ElMXlfWoP9/view?usp=sharing
However, to improve, a professional would be needed to diagram and illustrate.
Partnerships can be made with schools, reading clubs, digital influencers, and space agencies to financially support the project's growth.
Space Agency Data
We looked for many photos to put in the illustrations.
https://archive.org/details/NIX-PIA00545
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2020/lucy-spacecraft
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/WISE/multimedia/pia16211.html
https://archive.org/details/GPN-2003-000006
https://archive.org/details/PLAN-PIA04922
https://archive.org/details/SPD-HUBBLE-STScI-2007-19j
We use the site to learn about the history of the Lucy Mission, and also get to know the media kit they make available because it is very clear.
http://lucy.swri.edu/
And we watched Lucy's Journey videos http://lucy.swri.edu/LucyCartoon.html#episode1
Hackathon Journey
We had a smooth journey, because from the beginning we were clear about what we wanted to build. The most complicated part was the design, as we are not professionals. We use creativity a lot. And most of all, we have the support of many mentors and validations from teachers and parents. We are especially grateful to the mentors, Professor Hélio Costa, Evellyn Souza, Denilval Bitencourt and Marcos Faneli. And we are very grateful to the teachers and parents who answered our questionnaires. The idea only gained substance with their opinion.
References
Canva, Movavi, Figma, Google Forms, Google Docs, Discord, Nasa website, instagram, Facebook.
Tags
#art #education #fun #children #lucy
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