[Stylist] Recounting the Apollo 11 Story in 10 Minutes

[Barbara HAMMEL]

Does it all have to things you say because there's nothing like ending it with hearing that, "Tranquility Base here, the Eagle has landed." I think you should tell them the fascinating fact about how little technology they had to use back then. —pare it to something they would know. It was definitely much less than what a SmartPhone even uses today. Are you telling them about how far it is to the moon and how long it took them to get there? Have you learned any other fascinating scientific facts or just curious bits of information while investigating your story?  Barbara Hammel

> On Nov 16, 2018, at 21:57, Tina Hansen via Stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> You may know that I am working on a ELL project with a small team around
> Apollo 11. We're trying to figure out how to recount the story of the event
> in 10 minutes. As part of our story, we plan to use actualities, but we need
> to give the actualities context. We may give the students a handout and have
> them refer to that during the presentation, but we're not sure what else we
> can do. We're torn because it's tempting to try to write something up and
> pre-record it, but I also feel that could be problematic. On the other hand,
> if we do it live, how do you make it repeatable?
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> The rest of our block will be devoted to experiments and having the students
> play with the props we bring.
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> Bottom line: We're stuck. I know writers face challenges like this all the
> time, so I thought you might have some ideas. So, do any of you have
> suggestions for how to make this work? Thanks.
> 
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