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2009 March 20 (Friday) 8:00–9:00am. NSTA Convention, New Orleans. Real-Time Graphing and Modeling: The NASA Kepler Mission’s Method of Finding Planets. Sheraton New Orleans, Napoleon C1. Presenter: Alan Gould (Lawrence Hall of Science: Berkeley, CA)
2009 March 25, 4-5 p.m. EST.
Kepler Mission session in the NASA eEducation Electronic Professional Development Network Series.
NASA's Digital Learning Network presents a series of videoconferences to assist educators in staying current on NASA education resources and related products. During each event, product producers, authors and experts will demonstrate their materials designed to optimize awareness and understanding of science concepts. Instructional objectives, accessing the materials and primary contacts for the materials will also be discussed. During the videoconferences, participants will be able to submit questions to the presenter that will be addressed during the presentation. The Kepler mission will seek evidence for Earth-size planets in orbit around sun-like stars. For the first time NASA will be able to search the galaxy for Earth-size or smaller planets. With this cutting-edge capability, Kepler may help to answer one of the most enduring questions humans have asked throughout history: Are there others like us in the universe?For more information about these videoconferences and to sign up online, visit http://dln.nasa.gov/dln/content/webcast.
Questions about these events should be directed to Caryn Long at caryn.long@nasa.gov.
Date: 2009 April 4
Featured speaker/scientist:
Dr. David Latham,
Kepler Mission Stellar Classification Program Lead Scientist
Kepler: A Search for Habitable Planets
Space Science Workshop for Teachers
Celebrate The Kepler Mission and the International Year of Astronomy
Saturday, April 4, 2009
8:15 am – 5:00 pm
Location: Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Join us for an exciting day of science and hands-on activities for middle and high school science teachers. Dr. David Latham, Co-Investigator, will discuss the science behind NASA’s Kepler Mission, which launched in March 2009. Standards based, classroom ready activities include: Human Orrery, Detecting Extrasolar Planets, Transit Tracks, and building a computer-interfaced transit model. Participants will also gain access to the MicroObservatory online telescopes.
A letter verifying 8 hours of professional development can be provided.
Each workshop participant will receive a complete transit model, which includes a LEGO orrery, Vernier light sensor, interface and graphing software, a $150 value, morning coffee and lunch.
Workshop Sign-up Required: Send an email to Cynthia Ramseyer, cramseyer@seti.org. Provide the following information:
SUBJECT: April 4 Workshop
TEXT: Name, School, Address, Telephone, Grade(s) and Courses taught.
You will receive an email confirmation.
Mail $20 check or MC/VISA credit card information for coffee, lunch and snacks to: SETI Institute, Attn: Cynthia Ramseyer, 515 N. Whisman Road, Mountain View, CA 94043
More info: contact Cynthia Ramseyer, cramseyer@seti.org.
Download workshop flier: MS Word -|- PDF
Date: 2009 April 25
Featured speaker/scientist:
Dr. Patricia Boyd, Kepler Program Scientist
Kepler: A Search for Habitable Planets
Space Science Workshop for Teachers
Celebrate The Kepler Mission and the International Year of Astronomy
Time: Saturday, April 25, 2009 8:15 am – 5:00 pm
Location: National Air and Space Museum, National Mall Building, Briefing Room
Join us for an exciting day of science and hands-on activities for middle and high school science teachers. Dr. Patricia Boyd, Program Scientist, will discuss the science behind NASA’s Kepler Mission, which launched in March 2009. Standards based, classroom ready activities include: Human Orrery, Detecting Extrasolar Planets, Transit Tracks, and building a computer-interfaced transit model. A letter verifying 8 hours of professional development can be provided.
Each workshop participant will receive a complete transit model which includes a LEGO orrery, Vernier light sensor, interface and graphing software, a $150 value, morning coffee and lunch.
Workshop Sign-up Required: Send an email to Cynthia Ramseyer, cramseyer@seti.org. Provide the following information:
SUBJECT: April 25 Workshop
TEXT: Name, School, Address, Telephone, Grade(s) and Courses taught.
You will receive an email confirmation.
Mail $20 check or MC/VISA credit card information for coffee, lunch and snacks to: SETI Institute, Attn: Cynthia Ramseyer, 515 N. Whisman Road, Mountain View, CA 94043
Download workshop flier: MS Word -|- PDF
More Conferences...
January 3-8: AAS meeting, Long Beach - Kepler exhibit at Astrozone on January 3.
January 15-16: Opening ceremonies for International Year of Astronomy, Kepler Exhibit, Paris France.
February 6, Friday: Exo-planet celebration at Chabot Space and Science Center, Oakland. Keynote by Kepler Scientist Gibor Basri (UC Berkeley), planetarium program, panel, other activities. In planning stages.
February 20, Tuesday: NSTA Webinar seminar for science teachers (60 minutes)
March 18-22, 2009: National Science Teachers Association, national conference, New Orleans, LA. Kepler exhibit, workshops, share-a-thons.
Late Summer (Aug/Sept?): Kepler Night at NASA ARC as a part of the "Celebration of Science" now being planned by team at ARC.
October, 22-25 2009: CSTA, Palm Springs.
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