July 2008 Education Update
NASA Earth and Space Science Education E-News
July 2008
http://nasascience.nasa.gov/educators/earth-and-space-science-education-e-news
This monthly broadcast includes upcoming educational programs, events, opportunities and the latest resources from NASA's Science Mission Directorate.
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(1) NASA is Featured Agency at 2008 Smithsonian Folklife Festival (June 25-29 and July 2-6)
(2) 3D-VIEW: Apply for Teacher Training Sessions (Applications due: July 3)
(3) “Saving Hubble” on NOVA Science Now (July 9)
(4) NASA Remote Sensing Workshop at Home Educators Conference (July 12)
(5) American Association of Physics Teachers 2008 Summer Meeting (July 19-23)
(6) The Earth Then, Earth Now: Our Changing Climate Educator Conference (July 23-24)
(7) NASA and Disney Invite Kids to Explore Space with WALL-E (Summer 2008)
(8) Physics Teachers: Field-Test a NASA Dawn Content Module This Fall (Fall 2008)
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(9) NASA Lunar Science Institute - Cooperative Agreement Notice (Proposals Due Aug. 29)
(10) Global Climate Change Education Opportunity
(11) Competitive Program for Science Museums and Planetariums
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(12) Podcast - Eclipse 2008: China 1
(13) Space Math Problems of the Week (Grades 9-11)
(14) Giovanni: An Easier Way to Visualize Earth Science Data
(15) Web site: Global Climate Change – NASA’s Eyes on Earth
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(16) GLAST Takes on Gamma Rays
(17) Rare Binary Pulsars Provide High Energy Physics Lab
(18) Phoenix Lander Prepares for Microscopy, Wet Chemistry on Mars
(19) NASA Launches Ocean Satellite to Keep a Weather, Climate Eye
(20) NASA Selects Explorer Mission of Opportunity Investigations
(21) Apollo Relic Reveals its Secrets
(22) NASA Phoenix Mars Lander Confirms Frozen Water
(23) NASA Aircraft Examines Impact of Forest Fires on Arctic Climate
(24) Black Holes Have Simple Feeding Habits
(25) Sun to Set on Ulysses Solar Mission
(26) NASA Data Helps Pinpoint Impacted Populations in Disaster Aftermath
(27) NASA’s GLAST Launch Successful
(28) NASA Plans to Visit the Sun
(29) Student Researchers and Educators Partner with NASA for Unparalleled Results
(30) Buzz Lightyear Assigned New Mission on International Space Station
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UPCOMING PROGRAMS/EVENTS [Top]
(1) NASA IS FEATURED AT 2008 SMITHSONIAN FOLKLIFE FESTIVAL
June 25-29 and July 2-6
Will you be in Washington, D.C. at the end of June or beginning of July? Join NASA at the 2008 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. The festival invites learners of all ages to meet exemplary masters, whether they are calligraphers from Bhutan, polka players from Texas or astrophysicists from NASA. The event will take place at the National Mall from June 25-29 and July 2-6, 2008.
NASA: Fifty Years and Beyond will showcase the role that the men and women of NASA have played in broadening the horizons of American science and culture, as well as the role that they will continue to play in helping to shape the future by stirring the public imagination.
The festival will include live presentations; hands-on educational activities; demonstrations of skills, techniques, and knowledge; and narrative "oral history" sessions. NASA exhibits will explore the spirit of innovation, discovery, and service embodied by the agency and its personnel. Visitors will be able to interact with astronomers, astronauts, astrophysicists, educators, engineers, graphic artists, nutritionists, pilots and other NASA experts.
For those who can't attend in person, the NASA Folklife Festival Web site will have interactive content to allow users to attend virtually. The site will include a rollover map of featured exhibits with links to learn more, and image galleries of photos taken during the festival. Visitors to the Web site can also learn about NASA careers by reading biographies of the NASA presenters.
For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/50th/Folklife/index.html.
(2) 3D-VIEW: APPLY FOR UPCOMING TEACHER TRAINING SESSIONS
Applications due July 3
U.S. Satellite Laboratory, Inc. presents NASA-sponsored 3D-VIEW (Virtual Interactive Environmental Worlds). Designed for students in grades 5 and 6, 3D-VIEW is an award-winning, comprehensive research-based Earth science curriculum with strong literacy and math achievement components. 3-D stereo is used as a tool to learn science content in richly thematic units for Earth science. These units include Air, Life, Water, Land and Earth Systems.
Weeklong online training sessions are taking place this summer. Applications are due July 3, 2008. For more information and to register for training sessions, visit http://www.3dview.org or contact 3dviewinfo@3dview.org.
(3) “SAVING HUBBLE” AIRS JULY 9 ON NOVA SCIENCE NOW
NOVA Science Now will air ‘Saving Hubble’ on Wednesday, July 9, at 9pm ET on PBS. The show’s host Neil deGrasse Tyson came to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for this segment, which was filmed in the Bldg. 29 clean room and upper lobby and features NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (HST) manager Mike Weiss.
For more information about this and other NOVA Science Now shows, go to: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/.
(4) NASA REMOTE SENSING WORKSHOP AT HOME EDUCATORS CONFERENCE – JULY 12
Are you a homeschool educator looking for science content and activities? The Northern Virginia Home Educators Conference will be held July 11-12 at the Dulles Expo & Conference Center, Chantilly, Va. A NASA workshop – “Remote Sensing” – is planned Friday, July 12, at 12:30 PM, and will focus on how NASA collects multi-sensory data from tools such as the Hubble Telescope to plan new missions. For more information, visit http://www.novaconference.net.
(5) AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICS TEACHERS 2008 SUMMER MEETING
Learn more about NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and related educational resources at the national summer meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), July 19-23, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The National Meeting presents a unique opportunity to take part in a variety of events that are based on physics education and the principles that AAPT represents. For more information and to register, visit: http://www.aapt.org.
(6) THE EARTH THEN, EARTH NOW: OUR CHANGING CLIMATE EDUCATOR CONFERENCE – JULY 23-24
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of Sally Ride's first space shuttle mission, an educator conference will be presented to explore how Earth has changed in the 25 years since Dr. Ride first viewed it from above.
Participants will investigate the basic science behind our understanding of climate change. They will also learn about the global impact of climate change on the atmosphere, ocean, continents and ecosystems. Dr. Ride will give a keynote talk, and leading climate scientists will give presentations. The conference will also include hands-on activities, materials for the classroom, and current ideas for facing our climate challenge and creating a healthier planet. Participants will also learn about the wide-ranging career opportunities in this expanding and dynamic field.
The conference begins with a welcome reception at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Visitor’s Center honoring Dr. Sally Ride and the 25th anniversary of her flight, as well as the contributions of women to space, science and engineering. The conference continues July 23-24, 2008, at the NOAA Science Center in Silver Spring, Md. The registration fee of $60 covers teaching materials and most meals. For more information and to register for the conference online, visit http://www.sallyridescience.com/conference.
(7) NASA AND DISNEY INVITE KIDS TO EXPLORE SPACE WITH WALL-E
An animated robot and his spacefaring companion are leading a campaign by NASA and Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures to promote interest among schoolchildren in science and technology.
NASA and Disney have signed a Space Act Agreement for a series of educational and public outreach activities related to Disney-Pixar’s new movie, WALL-E, which opened in theaters nationwide on June 27.
This collaboration highlights the similarities between the movie’s storyline and NASA’s real-life work in robot technology, propulsion systems and astrophysics. Disney-Pixar’s WALL-E is set 700 years in the future. The film’s main character is the only rover-robot left on Earth. He meets a new robot named Eve, and together they take a journey through the universe.
To view the new WALL-E public service announcement and learn more about NASA and agency programs, visit: http://www.nasa.gov. For more information about Disney-Pixar's WALL-E, visit: http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/wall-e/.
(8) PHYSICS TEACHERS: FIELD-TEST A NASA DAWN CONTENT MODULE THIS FALL
Would you like to field-test a module that engages students with real-life applications of physics concepts? The Ion Propulsion module is aligned to the national standards (National Science Education Standards: “Structure and Properties of Matter”) for students in grades 9–12 and contains an interactive simulation in which students design their own ion engine.
Ion Propulsion was developed by NASA’s Dawn Mission education and outreach team and is ready for field-testing during the Fall 2008 semester. All materials have been thoroughly reviewed and modified based on pilot-test results. Field-test participants will have the opportunity to use and provide additional feedback on these innovative supplemental science materials. To view the entire module visit: http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/DawnClassrooms/2_ion_prop/index.asp. To view the study description and to sign up, visit: http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/getInvolved/index.asp.
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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES [Top]
(9) NASA LUNAR SCIENCE INSTITUTE - COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT NOTICE
Proposals Due: Aug. 29, 2008
The NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) announces an opportunity for the submission of multi-institutional team-based proposals for innovative research in lunar science.
Education and public outreach must be an integral element of all NLSI proposals. Up to 5% of the total proposed budget in each proposal may be allocated to E/PO activities. Following selection and award, Institute members are expected to be actively involved in implementing their Team’s E/PO program(s) and to participate in NLSI’s E/PO program as coordinated by the NLSI central office. Connections to other NASA Science Mission Directorate or Exploration Systems Mission Directorate E/PO efforts are strongly encouraged.
The full solicitation and guidelines are available at: http://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?method=init&solId={144E53A3-FD42-5894-B14F-1C48031DF574}&path=open.
(10) GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE EDUCATION OPPORTUNITY
Proposals Due: TBA
NASA's goal for this effort is to improve the quality of global climate change and Earth system science education at the elementary, secondary and undergraduate levels. Each funded proposal is expected to take advantage of NASA's unique contributions in climate science to enhance students' academic experiences and/or to improve educators' abilities to engage and stimulate their students. Sign up for the EXPRESS mailing list (http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/Express_Landing.html) to be notified when this solicitation is released.
(11) COMPETITIVE PROGRAM FOR SCIENCE MUSEUMS AND PLANETARIUMS
Proposals Due: TBA
Museums, science centers and planetariums may request grants or cooperative agreements via this forthcoming NASA Research Announcement, or NRA. Eligible projects in NASA-inspired science, technology, engineering or mathematics informal education, including exhibits, are for these congressionally directed topics: space exploration, aeronautics, space science, Earth science or microgravity. Sign up for the EXPRESS mailing list (http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/Express_Landing.html) to be notified when this NRA is released.
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EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES [Top]
(12) PODCAST - ECLIPSE 2008: CHINA 1
http://sunearthday.gsfc.nasa.gov/2008/multimedia/podcasts.php
In its first Podcast for Eclipse 2008, the Sun-Earth Day team talks with the man who has come to be known by many as Mr. Eclipse, Fred Espenak. Learn more about the different types of eclipses and what eclipses can tell us about the Sun!
(13) SPACE MATH PROBLEMS OF THE WEEK (GRADES 9-11)
http://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Problem 148 – Spitzer: Exploring a Dying Star (Grades: 9 - 11)
Students use data from the Spitzer satellite to calculate the mass of a planetary nebula from a dying star. [Skills: Scientific Notation; unit conversions; volume of a sphere]
(14) GIOVANNI: AN EASIER WAY TO VISUALIZE EARTH SCIENCE DATA
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/9-12/features/giovanni-an-easier-way.html
The world of data can be a confusing one; different formats, hefty downloads and complicated plotting tools can bog down even the experienced researcher, let alone a teacher or student. Giovanni is a tool that displays Earth science data from NASA satellites directly on the Internet, without the difficulties of traditional data acquisition and analysis methods. With a few clicks, data from various instruments on NASA satellites can be displayed in a variety of formats.
(15) WEB SITE: GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE – NASA’S EYES ON EARTH
http://climate.jpl.nasa.gov
This new web site, managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, includes the latest climate information from NASA's Earth-monitoring missions and research. It is a growing resource for news, articles, interactive features, and background information all related to climate change.
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SCIENCE NEWS [Top]
For the latest NASA Earth and space science news, visit the Science Mission Directorate website (http://science.hq.nasa.gov/), the NASA Earth Observatory (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov) or Science@NASA (). Science@NASA stories are also available as podcasts, as well as translated into Spanish at their sister site, Ciencia@NASA, http://ciencia.nasa.gov/. NASA science is also regularly featured on Earth & Sky radio shows available at http://www.earthsky.org/.
(16) GLAST TAKES ON GAMMA RAYS
June 23 - NASA's Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, will gladly welcome the bombardment of gamma rays, some of which are billions of times more energetic than the kind of radiation most familiar to humans -- visible light. Launched on June 11, 2008, GLAST will feature a specially designed telescope that will determine the direction and energy of incoming gamma rays.
For more information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/5-8/features/F_GLAST_Takes_on_Gamma_Rays.html.
(17) RARE BINARY PULSARS PROVIDE HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS LAB
June 23 - For the first time, a spacecraft has detected signals from both stars of a binary pulsar system in X-rays. XMM-Newton is watching both stars radiate pulsating X-rays, providing scientist with the perfect laboratory for high-energy physics and a never-ending source of intriguing physical problems. The binary pulsar PSR J0737-3039 was first spotted by astronomers in 2003 in radio wavelengths, but now X-rays can be used to investigate this system in greater detail.
XMM-Newton is a joint NASA-European Space Agency (ESA) orbiting observatory, designed to observe high-energy X-rays emitted from exotic astronomical objects such as pulsars, black holes and active galaxies.
For more information on the XMM-Newton, please visit: http://xmm.sonoma.edu/.
(18) PHOENIX LANDER PREPARES FOR MICROSCOPY, WET CHEMISTRY ON MARS
June 23 - NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has delivered a scoop of Martian soil from the "Snow White" trenches to the optical microscope for analysis on June 24, the 29th Martian day of the mission, or Sol 29. The Phoenix lander will position its Robotic Arm to deliver some of that same scoop of soil for its first wet chemistry experiment on the Red Planet in the next day or two.
Scientists did a diagnostic run today that melted ice to water for Phoenix's first wet chemistry experiment. The water is part of the wet chemistry laboratory and comes from Earth.
For the latest news on the Phoenix Mars Lander, please visit: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/.
(19) NASA LAUNCHES OCEAN SATELLITE TO KEEP A WEATHER, CLIMATE EYE
June 20 – Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason 2, a new NASA-French space agency oceanography satellite, launched on a globe-circling voyage to continue charting sea level, a vital indicator of global climate change. The mission will return a vast amount of new data that will improve weather, climate and ocean forecasts.
The mission is an international collaboration between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the French space agency Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT).
For more information about the OSTM/Jason 2 Satellite, visit http://www.nasa.gov/ostm.
(20) NASA SELECTS EXPLORER MISSION OF OPPORTUNITY INVESTIGATIONS
June 20 - NASA has selected two science proposals to be the agency's next Explorer Program Mission of Opportunity investigations. One activity will study black holes and other extreme environments in the universe. The other will determine how the Earth's outer atmosphere responds to external forces.
The first investigation will provide a U.S. science instrument to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's New exploration X-Ray Telescope, or NeXT. The telescope, currently planned for launch in 2013, will open a new observing window on X-rays and the study of astrophysical phenomena. NASA's proposed funding for the instrument and operations is $44 million.
The other investigation will fly an atmospheric remote sensing instrument package aboard a yet-to-be-determined future commercial satellite. The investigation initially will be funded at approximately $250,000 for a concept study to aid in a NASA decision on further development.
For more information about the Explorer Program on the Internet, visit: http://explorers.gsfc.nasa.gov.
(21) APOLLO RELIC REVEALS ITS SECRETS
June 20 – Researchers at NASA’s Glenn Research Center (GRC) are hoping the scoop recovered from the Surveyor 3, an unmanned U.S. spacecraft that landed on the moon in April 1967, will reveal secrets of digging on the moon.
NASA is returning to the Moon with plans to establish an outpost--and this will inevitably require some digging. The rocky, dusty lunar soil or "regolith" contains many of the natural resources humans need to live. For instance, there is plentiful oxygen bound up in ordinary moon rocks and, in polar regions, deposits of frozen water may lie hidden in the soil of shadowed craters. All that's required is a little excavation.
To read the full article, visit: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/20jun_apollorelic.htm.
(22) NASA PHOENIX MARS LANDER CONFIRMS FROZEN WATER
June 20 - Scientists relishing confirmation of water ice near the surface beside NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander anticipate even bigger discoveries from the robotic mission in the weeks ahead.
The mission has the right instruments for analyzing soil and ice to determine whether the local environment just below the surface of far-northern Mars has ever been favorable for microbial life. Key factors are whether the water ever becomes available as a liquid and whether organic compounds are present that could provide chemical building blocks and energy for life. Phoenix landed on May 25 for a Mars surface mission planned to last for three months.
For the latest news on the Phoenix Mars Lander, please visit: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/.
(23) NASA AIRCRAFT EXAMINES IMPACT OF FOREST FIRES ON ARCTIC CLIMATE
June 19 - As the summer fire season heats up, NASA aircraft are set to follow the trail of smoke plumes from some of Earth's northernmost forest fires, examining their contribution to arctic pollution and implications for climate change.
On June 29, NASA's DC-8 and P-3B aircraft, based at a Canadian military base in Cold Lake, Alberta, will began their final three-week deployment of the Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites, or ARCTAS, mission. A third NASA aircraft, the B-200 King Air, will fly from Yellowknife, Canada. The mission is the most extensive field campaign ever to study the chemistry of the Arctic's lower atmosphere. The three airborne laboratories are equipped to fly through the smoke plumes of northern-latitude forest fires. The resulting data, when combined with simultaneous satellite measurements, could reveal the impact of forest fires on the arctic atmosphere.
For more information about the ARCTAS mission on the Web, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/arctas.
(24) BLACK HOLES HAVE SIMPLE FEEDING HABITS
June 18 - The biggest black holes may feed just like the smallest ones, according to data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ground-based telescopes. This discovery supports the implication of Einstein's relativity theory that black holes of all sizes have similar properties, and will be useful for predicting the properties of a conjectured new class of black holes.
The conclusion comes from a large observing campaign of the spiral galaxy M81, which is about 12 million light years from Earth. In the center of M81 is a black hole that is about 70 million times more massive than the Sun, and generates energy and radiation as it pulls gas in the central region of the galaxy inwards at high speed.
To read the full article, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/news/08-071.html.
(25) SUN TO SET ON ULYSSES SOLAR MISSION
June 12 - After over 17 years of operation, the joint ESA/NASA mission Ulysses will officially conclude on July 1 this year. The spacecraft, which studied the Sun and its effect on the surrounding space for almost four times its expected lifespan, will cease to function because of the decline in power produced by its on-board generators. Ulysses has forever changed the way scientists view the Sun and its effect on the surrounding space. The mission’s major results and the legacy it leaves behind were presented at ESA Headquarters in Paris.
For more information about the Ulysses mission, please visit:
(26) NASA DATA HELPS PINPOINT IMPACTED POPULATIONS IN DISASTER AFTERMATH
June 12 - When two catastrophic natural disasters struck within days of each other in May 2008, disaster relief, humanitarian aid, and health officials, as well as members of the news media tapped into a unique set of NASA data products describing the location of the exposed populations.
SEDAC, a part of NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System, collects, stores, processes and distributes population, land use, and socioeconomic data. A significant mission of NASA's Earth-observing satellite program is to enable scientists and other users to conduct analyses and make decisions based on the resulting data. SEDAC advances this mission by developing and operating practical applications that merge social science and Earth science data to improve knowledge of how humans interact with Earth's environment.
To read the entire article, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/disaster_impact.html.
For more information on SEDAC, visit: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/.
(27) NASA’S GLAST LAUNCH SUCCESSFUL
June 11 - GLAST is now on its own with its solar arrays deployed and placed into a circular orbit 350 miles above the Earth, prepared to monitor the universe and the mysterious gamma-ray bursts.
GLAST is a powerful space observatory that will explore the most extreme environments in the universe, and search for signs of new laws of physics and what composes the mysterious dark matter, explain how black holes accelerate immense jets of material to nearly light speed, and help crack the mysteries of the staggeringly powerful explosions known as gamma-ray bursts.
With high sensitivity GLAST is the first imaging gamma-ray observatory to survey the entire sky every day. It will give scientists a unique opportunity to learn about the ever-changing universe at extreme energies. GLAST will detect thousands of gamma-ray sources, most of which will be supermassive black holes in the cores of distant galaxies.
For more information about the GLAST mission, please visit: http://www.nasa.gov/glast.
(28) NASA PLANS TO VISIT THE SUN
June 10 - For more than 400 years, astronomers have studied the sun from afar. Now NASA has decided to go there. The name of the mission is Solar Probe+ (pronounced "Solar Probe plus"). It's a heat-resistant spacecraft designed to plunge deep into the sun's atmosphere where it can sample solar wind and magnetism first hand. Launch could happen as early as 2015. By the time the mission ends 7 years later, planners believe Solar Probe+ will solve two great mysteries of astrophysics and make many new discoveries along the way.
For more information, visit: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/10jun_solarprobe.htm.
(29) STUDENT RESEARCHERS AND EDUCATORS PARTNER WITH NASA FOR UNPARALLELED RESULTS
June 3 - A team at NASA's Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va., developed a protocol, SMOG (The Surface Measurements of Ozone for GLOBE) for taking surface ozone measurements. The protocol has been used in more than 120 schools in 13 countries, and is one of more than 50 used by the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) program, an international student observation campaign launched in 1994 to enhance environmental awareness.
Guided by both scientists and educators, students follow the protocol to collect an atmospheric sample on a piece of chemically treated paper that changes color (similar to the same principle as litmus paper) based upon ozone exposure. They then use a scanner that essentially quantifies the color much better than can be done by the human eye.
For more information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/ozone_globe.html.
(30) BUZZ LIGHTYEAR ASSIGNED NEW MISSION ON INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
June 2 - The Disney/Pixar character made famous the movie line “To infinity, and beyond!” is joining the crew of the STS-124 space shuttle mission. The STS-124 space shuttle mission will deliver the next piece of the Japanese "Kibo" laboratory to the station. Kibo is about the size of a large tour bus and will be the station's largest laboratory. It will feature 10 experiment racks where astronauts will conduct microgravity research that will focus on space medicine, biology, Earth observations, material production, biotechnology and communications research.
In celebration of Buzz's flight, Disney Parks partnered with NASA to create five interactive games with educational activities and special messages from Buzz Lightyear. These will be added to the NASA Kids' Club Web site throughout the mission. Follow along by visiting the NASA Kids' Club site throughout the STS-124 mission to read Buzz's Mission Logs, download the activity guides, and play the interactive games. Mission log updates will be posted as the mission progresses. To visit the NASA Kids' Club, go to http://www.nasa.gov/kidsclub.
To learn more about the STS-124 space shuttle mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/sts-124-main.html.
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CALENDAR [Top]
June 25-29, July 2-6
2008 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
http://www.folklife.si.edu/festival/2008/NASA/index.html.
July 3
Applications due for 3D-VIEW Teacher Training Sessions
http://www.3dview.org.
July 9-10
Teacher Workshop on Geoscience Time Scales & Global Climate Change, UW-Madison
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/teacherworkshop.
July 9
NOVA Science Now airs ‘Saving Hubble’ at 9pm ET on PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/.
July 12
NASA Remote Sensing Workshop at Home Educators Conference
http://www.novaconference.net
July 13-19
Floods and Flows: Exploring Mars Geology on Earth, field experience for middle school science teachers
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/fieldtrips/2008/.
July 15
NASA launches the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX)
http://www.ibex.swri.edu.
July 15
Proposals Due: Opportunities in NASA SMD E/PO
July 19-23
American Association of Physics Teachers 2008 Summer Meeting
http://www.aapt.org
July 23-24
The Earth Then, Earth Now: Our Changing Climate Educator Conference
http://www.sallyridescience.com/conference.
Aug. 1
Total Solar Eclipse, Live Webcast from China
http://www.sunearthday.nasa.gov
http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse.
Aug. 8
NASA launches Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-O
http://goespoes.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/index.html.
Aug. 29
Proposals Due - NASA Lunar Science Institute - Cooperative Agreement Notice
Sept. 10
NASA/Library of Congress Public Presentation Series
Space-Based Ornithology: on the Wings of Migration and Biophysics
http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/events/events.html.
Oct. 12-18
Earth Science Week
http://www.earthsciweek.org/.
Oct. 21
NASA/Library of Congress Public Presentation Series: Invasive Species in the United States
http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/events/events.html.
Dec. 15
NASA Launches the Orbiting Carbon Observatory
http://oco.jpl.nasa.gov.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS [Top]
NASA Science Mission Directorate: Larry Cooper, Ann Coren, Doris Daou, and Ming-Ying Wei.
Editor: Theresa Schwerin, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), theresa_schwerin@strategies.org.
Writer: Catherine Fahey, IGES, catherine_fahey@strategies.org.
Contributions from: Isabel Hawkins and Karin Hauck, University of California, Berkeley; Bonnie McClain, NASA GSFC; Annie H. Richardson, NASA JPL; John Ristvey, Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL); Glen Shuster, U.S. Satellite Laboratory, Inc.; Denise Smith, NASA’s Space Telescope Science Institute; and Dan Stillman, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies.