The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation has received a donation of $5.2 million from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation for the Reagan Library's new Air Force One Discovery Center.

The center is an interactive, educational experience for fifththrough eighthgraders where students participate in role-playing exercises to learn how government works and how decisions are made.

The Reynolds Foundation had previously contributed a $3.5 million grant in 2007 to help build the Discovery Center.

"These funds will allow us to increase staffing, provide bus scholarships so that schools without field trip funds can bring students to the Discovery Center and enhance the center's technology," said R. Duke Blackwood, executive director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Foundation.

Four education modules, or "sets," including an Oval Office, Command Decision Center, White House Press Room and Air Force One simulator, set the stage for the experience on presidential decision-making. Rather than reading about how historical figures made their decisions, students participating in the Discovery Center become the decision-makers.

Taking on roles such as the president and his cabinet, military generals and reporters, students are presented with critical issues and events in history and are asked to guide the nation.

Students are then able to analyze their own decisions in comparison with those of historical figures.

The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation is a national philanthropic organization founded in 1954 by media entrepreneur Reynolds. It is one of the largest private foundations in the United States.