Video Description: George Leopold is a veteran technology journalist and science writer who has covered the nexus between technology and policy for over thirty years.  Leopold has written extensively about U.S. manned spaceflight, including the Apollo and space shuttle programs.  His work has appeared in the New York Times, the New Scientist, and a variety of other science and technology publications. In this program, learn how he used his experience as a researcher and writer of science topics and applied it to his first biography on the life and legacy of pioneering astronaut Gus Grissom.

• Use the video as students engage in writing biographies of individuals of their choice. Discuss Mr. Leopold’s use of research, his writing process, his editing process, and other topics.
• Use the video in a flipped learning activity and have students come to class prepared to share two insights gained by watching the video and two questions they’d like answered through their own or class research.