Posted on August 16th, 2010 by ASEE
NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day Website is a helpful resource originated, written, coordinated, and edited since 1995 by Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell. The APOD archive contains the largest collection of annotated astronomical images on the internet.
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Tags: Astronomy, Images, NASA, Satellite imagery, Web Resources, Website
Posted on August 16th, 2010 by Jaimie Schock
NASA and Georgia Tech have set up a series of distance learning courses for K-12 science teachers called the Electronic Professional Development Network, which is a free online set of courses designed to hep educators do a better job at teaching STEM subjects.
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Posted on June 15th, 2010 by Jaimie Schock
The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is looking for successful summer and other out-of-school programs that can be show to provide improved academic achievement of participants and a focus on STEM careers and career pathways. Proposals will be accepted until July 16 from non-profit organizations, state-based educational leadership organizations, and U.S. school districts.
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Posted on June 14th, 2010 by Jaimie Schock
NASA’s new Summer of Innovation initiative, kicked off on June 10, will engage thousands of middle school students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics during the summer months when many students experience what’s known as the “summer slide,” a loss of skills acquired during the school year. Summer of Innovation 2011 has been proposed and is slated to go on, but no date has been selected yet.
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Posted on May 27th, 2010 by Jaimie Schock
NASA is launching a new robotic mission to Jupiter in 2011. Classrooms are invited to join NASA/JPL engineer Tracy Drain as she discusses why NASA is sending the Juno spacecraft to Jupiter, how it will get there, and what it will study. The conversation will be geared to students in grades 6 through 8. The live web chat on June 3, 2010, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern/10 a.m. Pacific, can be watched online.
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Tags: Aeronautics, Aerospace, Grades 6-8, Live Web Chat, NASA
Posted on May 25th, 2010 by ASEE
NASA’s Virtual Skies website provides an engaging yet informal way to present aviation topics to high school and academically advanced middle school students. The Aeronautics, Navigation, Weather, Air Traffic Management, Communications, Airport Design modules involve students in decision-making and collaborative skills using principles of algebra, geometry and calculus. Each section includes on-line activities complemented by downloadable print materials that can be used in the classroom to supplement the geography, mathematics, and science concepts.
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Posted on May 24th, 2010 by Jaimie Schock
Chuck Lostroscio, a NASA software engineer, has reconfigured the simulation software NASA used to train Space Shuttle astronauts and created a computer game-like tool to help students learn how they might one day apply their math, science and engineering lessons. It’s called the Kennedy Launch Academy Simulation System, or KLASS, and it requires students to play a mission control engineer for a simulated shuttle launch.
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Posted on May 19th, 2010 by ASEE
NASA@Home and City is a fun interactive program on the NASA Website that takes users on an illustrated tour of the commercial technologies and products in their homes and cities that trace their origins to NASA’s investment in space and aeronautics research and development. The agency has documented more than 1,500 examples of how these technologies have been used for bettering life on Earth.
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Posted on May 11th, 2010 by ASEE
Based on the actual software currently used for training at its Launch Control Center, NASA’s downloadable Kennedy Launch Academy Simulation System Software (KLASS) enables a launch countdown simulation with a networked system of computers. The supporting KLASS Curriculum is a series of STEM lesson plans for students grades 6-10 with interactive resources that build to a simulated shuttle launch.
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Tags: Aerospace, Aerospace Engineering, Grades 6-10, NASA, Science Curriculum, Software
