Young students demand fast-paced games that deliver high adventure, plus exciting audio and visual stimulation. Future educational software will have to compete for the attention of this especially demanding audience. If done right, educational multimedia can grab and hold the attention of these youngsters as effectively as computer games. Our objective is to test the ability of multimedia to enlighten elementary school students about remote sensing.
Elementary school is a critical time for students to form opinions about science.
The language and content of educational software for older students are often inappropriate or unappealing to younger students. We hope to use multimedia to accomplish captivating a student s attention while applying the science to real-world applications. Combined with multimedia, science taught using images of the earth and planets attained by remote sensing can grasp the attention of elementary school students. Geography and earth science lessons can be powerfully reinforced through satellite images. Students can view damage from floods, volcanic eruptions, and droughts.