Check out the following NASA opportunities for the education community.
Full descriptions are listed below.
Derivatives:
Math and Science @ Work -- Space Shuttle Auxiliary Power Units Web Seminar
Audience: 9-12 Calculus Teachers and Informal Educators
Event Date: May 30, 2012
Chemistry of Water: Math and Science @
Work -- A Breath of Fresh Air Web Seminar
Audience: 9-12 and Informal Educators
Event Date: May 31, 2012
NASA Earth Day Video
Contest 2012
Audience: All Educators and Students
Deadline for Entries: May 31, 2012
2012 Educate to Innovate
Conference
Audience: 6-12 Educators
Registration Deadline: May 31, 2012
Event Date: June 20-21, 2012 and June 26-27,
2012
2012 Summer Workshops --
Climate Science Research for Educators and Students
Audience: 9-12 Educators
Application Deadline: June 1, 2012
NASA History Division
Fall 2012 Internships
Audience: Higher Education Students
Deadline: June 1, 2012
Expeditions 33 and 34
In-flight Education Downlink Opportunities
Audience: All Educators
Proposal Deadline: June 1, 2012
2012 Music and Astronomy Under the Stars
Events
Audience: All Educators and Students
Event Dates: Multiple dates June 13 – Oct. 26, 2012
Space Station
Expedition Webcasts
Audience: K-12 Educators
Event Dates: July 12, Oct. 11 and Oct.
12, 2012
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Derivatives:
Math and Science @ Work -- Space Shuttle Auxiliary Power Units Web Seminar
As part of a series of electronic professional development experiences for
educators, the NASA Explorer Schools and Learning Environments and Research
Network, or LEARN, projects are hosting a 60-minute live professional
development Web seminar for educators on May
30, 2012, at 8 p.m. EDT. The Space Shuttle Auxiliary Power Units student
activity featured in this seminar is a problem set from the Mission Control
series of NASA’s Math and Science @ Work project. Participants will assume the
role of a student. Attendees will work the problem set, score their results and
share best practices with other participants for implementing this problem set
into the classroom.
For more information and to
register online, visit https://digitalmedia.wufoo.com/forms/nes-webinar-registration-derivatives/.
To learn more about the NASA Explorer Schools project, visit http://explorerschools.nasa.gov.
Email any questions about this opportunity to NASA-Explorer-Schools@mail.nasa.gov.
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Chemistry
of Water: Math and Science @ Work -- A Breath of Fresh Air Web Seminar
As part of a series of electronic professional development experiences for
educators, NASA Explorer Schools and the National Science Teachers Association
are hosting a 90-minute live professional development Web seminar for educators
on May 31, 2012, at 6:30 p.m. EDT. Learn
how to implement a chemistry lab activity called “A Breath of Fresh Air.”
During the activity, students create their own electrolysis apparatus to
generate oxygen and use a Texas Instruments TI-Nspire calculator to collect
data. Note: You do not need to have a TI-Nspire calculator during this professional
development.
For more information and to
register online, visit http://learningcenter.nsta.org/products/symposia_seminars/NES2/webseminar13.aspx
To learn more about the NASA Explorer Schools project, visit http://explorerschools.nasa.gov.
Email any questions about this opportunity to NASA-Explorer-Schools@mail.nasa.gov.
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NASA Earth Day Video Contest 2012
To mark Earth Day 2012, NASA presents the Earth
Day Video Contest 2012. For the second year in a row, NASA is challenging the
public to create a compelling video vision of NASA's exploration of Earth --
The Home Frontier.
To enter, produce a short video that captures
what you find inspiring and important about the unique view and understanding
of Earth provided by NASA science. Upload your video to YouTube and tag it
using the instructions found on the contest website. NASA will feature the best
entry -- chosen by a panel of NASA scientists and communicators -- on the NASA
website. And, the winner will receive a behind-the-scenes look at the next
rocket launch of a NASA Earth-observing satellite.
Submissions will be accepted until May 31, 2012.
For more information, official contest rules and
to see the winning video from last year, visit http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/earthday-vid-2012.html.
If you have any questions about this contest,
please email Patrick Lynch at Patrick.Lynch@nasa.gov.
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2012 Educate to Innovate Conference
NASA’s Aerospace Education Services Project and
the Kentucky Southeast-Southcentral Education Cooperative are presenting two
Educate to Innovate opportunities this summer. These conference workshops will
explore engineering design challenges, problem-based learning activities,
distance-learning modules, inquiry-based lessons, literacy across the
curriculum and hands-on projects. Event agenda items will target the next
generation standards of learning for science, technology, engineering and
mathematics.
Workshop participants will experience eight
breakout sessions with hands-on activities over the two-day training.
Participants also can sign up for free 90-minute virtual follow-up with one of
NASA’s aerospace education specialists.
Two separate conference opportunities are
available. The first will take place June 20-21, 2012, at Eastern Kentucky
University. The second will take place June 26-27, 2012, at Corbin Center for
Technology and Community Activities in Corbin, Ky.
The registration deadline for these events is May 31, 2012.
For more information and to register online,
visit https://coetech.eku.edu/registration/Online_PD_RegForm.php.
If you have any questions about the conference,
please contact Brandon Hargis at Brandon.hargis@nasa.gov.
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2012 Summer Workshops --
Climate Science Research for Educators and Students
The Institute for Earth Science Research and Education, in collaboration
with Queens College/City University of New York, is seeking participants for summer
professional development workshops in the second year of its Climate Science
Research for Educators and Students project. Funded by the NASA Innovations in
Climate Education program, this project seeks to improve student engagement in
climate science by helping teachers and students develop authentic
climate-related science research projects.
During summer 2012, two climate science
workshops will take place in New York City. The first workshop will be held in
late June or early July. The workshop will focus on understanding
sun/Earth/atmosphere interactions and Earth's radiative balance, a fundamental
concept for climate science. All participants will build pyranometers,
instruments for monitoring solar radiation. A follow-up workshop will take place
in August. During the summer, participants are expected to conduct their own
research.
All workshop participants in 2011 were from New
York City or within commuting distance. In 2012, teachers from other places are
encouraged to attend the early summer workshop, with follow-on activities to be
conducted online in place of attendance at the August workshop. On-campus
housing at Queens College should be available, and travel support for teachers
from outside the NYC area may be available.
Applications are due June 1, 2012.
For more information, visit http://www.instesre.org/GCCE/GCCEHome.htm.
Questions about this competition should be
directed to David Brooks via email at brooksdr@drexel.edu
or by phone at 610-584-5619.
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NASA History Division Fall 2012 Internships
The NASA History Division is seeking
undergraduate and graduate students for fall 2012 internships. The History
Division maintains archival materials to answer research questions from NASA
personnel, journalists, scholars, students at all levels and others from around
the world. The division also edits and publishes several books and monographs
each year. It maintains a large number of websites on NASA history.
Students of all majors are welcome to apply.
While detailed prior knowledge of the aeronautics and space fields is not
necessary, a keen interest and some basic familiarity with these topics are
needed. Strong research, writing and editing skills are essential. Experience
with computers, especially HTML formatting, is a plus.
Intern projects are flexible. Typical projects
include handling a wide variety of information requests, editing historical
manuscripts, doing research and writing biographical sketches, updating and
creating websites, and identifying and captioning photos.
Applications are due June 1, 2012. For more
information, visit http://history.nasa.gov/interncall.htm.
If you have questions about this opportunity,
please contact Bill Barry at bill.barry@nasa.gov.
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Expeditions 33 and 34 In-flight Education
Downlink Opportunities
NASA is seeking formal and informal educational
organizations, individually or working together, to host live, in-flight
education downlinks during Expeditions 33 and 34 (approximately from September
2012 to March 2013). To maximize these downlink opportunities, NASA is looking
for organizations that will draw large numbers of participants and integrate
the downlinks into well-developed education plans.
The deadline to submit a proposal is June 1, 2012.
During Expeditions 33 and 34, crew members aboard the International Space
Station will participate in downlinks. Downlinks take approximately 20 minutes
and allow students and educators to interact with astronauts through a question-and-answer
session. Downlinks afford education audiences the opportunity to learn
firsthand from astronauts what it is like to live and work in space. Downlinks
are broadcast live on NASA TV and are streamed on the NASA website. Because of
the nature of human spaceflight, organizations must demonstrate the flexibility
to accommodate changes in downlink dates and times.
Interested organizations should contact Teaching
From Space, a NASA Education office, to obtain information related to
expectations, format, audience, guidelines and forms by sending an email to JSC-Teaching-From-Space@mail.nasa.gov
or by calling 281-244-7608.
To learn more about this opportunity, visit http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/teachingfromspace/students/downlinks.html.
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2012
Music and Astronomy Under the Stars Events
Join Dr. Donald Lubowich, coordinator of the Astronomy Outreach Program at
Hofstra University, for a series of events bringing astronomy to the public.
Concertgoers at several events this summer will get a glimpse of heavens along
with their music.
This NASA-sponsored program will include optical and radio telescope
observations of the Sun prior to the concerts. Observations of the moon,
planets, multi-colored double stars, star clusters and nebulae will be featured
at intermission and after the concerts. Videos, posters, hands-on activities
and the sounds of the sun will also be available.
For more information and to see a full schedule of events, visit http://www.hofstra.edu/Academics/Colleges/HCLAS/PHYSIC/physic_underthestars.html.
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Space Station Expedition Webcasts
NASA's Endeavor Science Teaching Certificate
project and NASA's Teaching From Space office are presenting three free webcasts
that focus on the International Space Station. All three webcasts will cover the same materials. Each webcast will kick off with an
introduction to space station expeditions and will then explore NASA's most
relevant classroom resources.
Webcasts will take place on July 12,
Oct. 11 and Oct. 12, 2012. Participants must register online. Registration
closes three days prior to each session.
For more information, visit http://www.us-satellite.net/ISS-expedition-webcasts/index.cfm.
Questions about this opportunity should be directed to nasa_endeavor@us-satellite.net.
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Don't miss out on education-related opportunities available from NASA. For a
full list of Current Opportunities, visit http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/current-opps-index.html.
Visit NASA Education on the Web:
For Educators: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/index.html
For Students: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/index.html
NASA Kids’ Club: http://www.nasa.gov/kidsclub
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This is the chance for a new generation to a part in NASA activities in a easy way........ Thanks NASA...