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Use 2011 GOES Hurricane Videos in Weather and Climate Lesson
 Posted on Feb 09, 2012 09:54:39 AM | John Entwistle
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Artist concept-GOES satellite above EarthIn the Weather and Climate: Satellite Meteorology lesson, students learn how to use real-time satellite data provided by Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites. GOES helps scientists uncover the secrets of how hurricanes form, travel, strengthen and, ultimately, how they impact us all. 2011 was an especially active year for tropical storms. Enhance your meteorology lessons with GOES videos featuring the 19 tropical cyclones that formed in the 2011 hurricane season.

To find out more about the Satellite Meteorology lesson, go to the Weather and Climate: Satellite Meteorology wall on Facebook  or in NEON, go to the Weather and Climate forum.


Video Chat: In Celebration of National Black History Month
 Posted on Feb 08, 2012 12:50:53 PM | John Entwistle
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Chat balloonJoin NES for a live video chat on Feb. 8, 2012 from 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. EST to celebrate National Black History Month with a panel of five NASA engineers and scientists. The chat room opens at 1:15 EST.



Exploring Newton's Laws of Motion
 Posted on Feb 07, 2012 12:08:09 PM | John Entwistle
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Simple staging rocket made of balloonsStudents of NASA Explorer Schools educator Dennis Hagen-Smith from Toluca Lake Elementary School completed the Balloon Rocket Experiment from the lesson Newton's Laws of Motion: Lunar Nautics. This activity is a simple demonstration of rocket staging first proposed by Johann Schmidlap in the 16th century. Hagen-Smith’s students learned how rockets achieve greater distances through staging. They also found out that it takes an enormous amount of energy to boost an object into space.

Students were excited to see their balloon rockets move along the tether across the room as they recorded data from each group's experimental design. As a follow-up extension activity linking social studies, students created timelines showing rocket development.

Check out the pictures from this lesson in the Balloon Rocket Experiment entry in the Lunar Nautics forum in the NASA Educators Online Network, or NEON.


NASA Launches Destination Innovation Video Series
 Posted on Feb 06, 2012 02:50:47 PM | John Entwistle
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Destination InnovationNASA has launched a new video series called Destination Innovation that will air on NASA Television. The series is featured on the agency's website, YouTube, Facebook and NASA’s apps for iPhone®, iPad® and Android™.

The first episode of Destination Innovation details the Kepler mission and is a great extension to the NES featured lesson, Algebraic Equations: Transit Tracks -- Finding Habitable Planets.

To access the related NES featured lesson, log into the Virtual Campus and navigate to Algebraic Equations: Transit Tracks -- Finding Habitable Planets, in the lesson library.

iPhone, iPad and iTunes are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. Android is a registered trademark of Google Inc.

Episode 1 - Kepler


NASA Now: Earth and Space Science: Asteroids
 Posted on Feb 06, 2012 02:35:33 PM | John Entwistle
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NASA Now logoThere are thousands of comets and asteroids in our solar system. When these objects enter Earth's neighborhood, scientists classify them as Near Earth Objects. Senior Research Scientist Don Yeomans tells us where they are, how big they are and if they pose a threat to our planet.

This program is available on the Virtual Campus beginning Feb 8, 2012.

Preview of this program



Student Spaceflight Experiments Program Inspires with Mission 1
 Posted on Feb 02, 2012 03:07:19 PM | John Entwistle
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Johnston Middle School in HoustonMiddle school students are doing research on the International Space Station? You better believe it!

“Insulin's Molecular Structure in Microgravity" and “Hepatocyte Development in Bioscaffolds Infused with TGFB3 in Microgravity" are both titles of experiments developed by students from Johnston Middle School, in Houston, Texas.

For proof of the inspirational impact of the International Space Station, you need only speak to the educators of the students participating in the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program, or SSEP. The program offered 41,200 students from around the nation the chance to propose and design a microgravity experiment with the chance of having their experiment flown aboard the space station.

You may read more about this story at www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/SSEP.html.

 See how you can inspire your students by getting them involved in a simulated International Space Station experience. Log in to the NASA Explorer Schools Virtual Campus website and check out the featured lesson Engineering Design Challenge: Lunar Plant Growth Chamber and the NASA Now program Exercise Physiology: Countermeasures.

NASA Now: Electromagnetic Spectrum -- NuSTAR
 Posted on Feb 02, 2012 09:13:22 AM | John Entwistle
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NASA Now logoAstrophysicist Ann Hornschemeier explains how NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, uses high-energy X-rays to search for and take pictures of the densest, hottest and most energetic regions in the universe!

This program is available on the Virtual Campus beginning Feb. 2, 2012.

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