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From the YES I Can! Science online collaborative project group:
Join the International Space Station 2007 Project!

ISS2007 will provide a once in a lifetime opportunity for grades 3-12 teachers and students to collaborate with astronauts, scientists and engineers, and other classes from around the globe.

Your class will have an opportunity to communicate through the project blogs with Expedition 15/16 Flight Engineer Clayton Anderson during his mission to the International Space Station this June to October. Supporting the project on the ground from the Canadian Space Agency will be Dr. Steve MacLean, who completed a mission to the ISS in 2006.

We realize that the timing of this project doesn’t fall within the traditional school year and for most classes will span the end of one school year and the beginning of the next. Consequently we are leaving a lot of flexibility in scheduling and have built in the option for teachers to add more than one class with each registration. Have your current class participate for the month of June and then add your new class at the beginning of the new school year. If you’d rather, register now, but wait until the Fall to start fresh with your new students. There are many suggested student activities - blog with the astronauts, solve problems, conduct investigations, and perform classroom experiments in parallel with similar experiments being carried out on board the ISS. Engage your class in as many activities as you wish, in whatever order you wish, on whatever schedule you can arrange.

Registration is now open for this exciting project! If you would like to have your class participate, visit the ISS2007 site at for registration information. As with all
YES I Can! Science online collaborative projects, registration and participation are free, thanks to the generosity of our sponsors.

We sincerely hope you will be able to join us, as we learn from Clay and Steve what living and working in space is really like!