NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) plays an essential role in inspiring the next generation of explorers. The discoveries and new knowledge from NASA’s missions and research programs offer the opportunity to engage and excite students about science and exploration. This link offers teachers information about K-12 classroom resources, programs, events, and opportunities for K-12 educators. To find resources and opportunities for your grade level, click the Xes next to the other two grade levels in the Audience box on the left sidebar and click the blue Go button (e.g., if you teach middle school, click the Xes next to High school and Elementary in the Audience box).
Looking for NASA science educational resources for your classroom? Visit NASA Wavelength, a searchable database that contains a wealth of SMD educational products for the K-12 classroom!
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GLOBE Mission EARTH Webinar #9 TAKES PLACE TOMORROW (FEBRUARY 8) AT 8:00 PM EST
GLOBE CLOUD PROTOCOL WILL BE UPDATED ON THE GLOBE WEBSITE. Come and learn about the NEW and IMPROVED CLOUD PROTOCOL! Dr. Kevin Czajkowski will thank all the students who entered surface temperature data for the Urban Heat Island Effect Campaign. He will introduce Joe Cartensen from Clay High School from Oregon, Ohio and Sarah McCrea from NASA Langley Research Center. Joe will provide some helpful hints to...Download
GME webinars occur every 2 weeks and features work being done in the classrooms using GLOBE and NASA reseources.
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2017 GLOBE International Virtual Science Symposium Informational Webinar
Are you interested in learning more about the 2017 GLOBE International Virtual Science Symposium? Join Dr. Julie Malmberg (GLOBE) and Matt Silberglitt (WestEd) for an informational webinar covering the guidelines and requirements for student reports, the rubrics, and the timeline. There will also be time for questions. The science symposium is open to all GLOBE students ranging from K-16.
The webinar will take...
Call to Action: Incorporating Active STEM Learning Strategies into K-12 and Higher Education
OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY
On Wednesday, August 17, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) announced a nationwide call to action to meet the goals of STEM for All and improve STEM teaching and learning throughout the education system at all grade levels through the use of active learning strategies. Active learning strategies, in which students must engage,...
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About ED Review This twice-a-month newsletter provides updates on ED’s activities relevant to intergovernmental, corporate and other stake holders. ED Review also contains hypertext links to information created and maintained by other public and private organizations. These links are provided for the user’s convenience. The U.S. Department of Education...
Laura Schetter, a teacher at Wildwood, Academy in Maumee, Ohio, is now entering GLOBE data which was collected in Antarctica in March. Ms. Schetter is sharing her experiences on the GLOBE blog. The expedition was part of the 2016 Foundation’s Antarctic Expedition with Robert Swan (http://2041foundation.org/expeditions).Download
Since the release of the Next Generation Science Standards in April 2013, many resources on understanding, interpreting, and getting familiar with them have been shared with the community. As more opportunities to learn how to utilize and implement these into your work come along, it might be supportive for you to be reminded of them, as well as see all of them in one place. Below are collated lists of books and discussions, webinars and Brown Bags, along with other resources that have been...Download Attachments
Check out the following NASA opportunities for the education community. Full descriptions are listed below.
New This Week!
Free NASA Educator Professional Development Webinars
Audience: In-service, Pre-service, Home School and Informal Educators
Next Event Date: Feb. 25, 2016, at 6:30 p.m. EST
NASA's Goddard Space...
The NASA Science Education and Public Outreach Forums support the NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) and its education and public outreach (E/PO) programs. The Forums foster collaboration between E/PO teams and between sciencetists with content expertise and educators with pedagogy expertise. These posters present opportunities for the astronomy community to leverage Forum resources and participate in collaborations to engage multiple audiences, including: K-12 Formal Education,...Download Attachments
Join us on Thursday, March 3, from 6:30 to 8:00 pm Eastern time to learn about the water cycle and the Global Precipitation Measurement Mission. Register today!
What is water? Where did Earth’s water come from? Water cycle basics, water management, freshwater versus salt water usage to meet our needs, freshwater availability, how does NASA help us better understand the water cycle are topics that will presented at this seminar.
The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) is an...
Achieve and the Teaching Channel
Release New Videos
Demonstrating EQuIP for Science
Four new videos highlighting the Educators Evaluating Quality in Instructional Products (EQuIP) for Science rubric are now available online. Developed through a collaboration between Achieve and the Teaching Channel, the video series uses rich conversations emerging from a Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) EQuIP training session to illustrate some important features of NGSS-aligned...
NGSS EQuIP Professional Learning Facilitator’s Guide
The NGSS EQuIP Professional Learning Facilitator’s Guide is a series of 10 modules that were designed to provide guidance on building the capacity of educators and education leaders to use the EQuIP Rubric for Science. Completing this professional learning will provide science educators and education leaders with the processes and procedures necessary to use the EQuIP Rubric to review science lessons and units, to provide effective...
"Preparing for the 2016 GLOBE International Virtual Science Fair: An Overview of Resources and the Rubrics"
Join Dr. Julie Malmberg, Education, Outreach, and Technology Specialist at the GLOBE Implementation Office, and Matt Silberglitt, Senior Research Associate in the STEM Program at WestEd, for a webinar on 16 December 2015 at 20:00 UTC (1:00 p.m. MST/3:00 p.m. EST). The goal of this webinar is to help teachers and students prepare for the 2016 GLOBE International Virtual Science Fair....
The GLOBE Program will be awarding three Distinguished Educator Fellowships to both formal and informal educators in 2016. Attend this hour long webinar hosted by Mr. John Moore, 2015 GLOBE Distinguished Educator Fellow, and Dr. Julie Malmberg, GLOBE Implementation Office Education and Outreach, to learn more about the 2016 fellowship. To learn more about the webinar and to register, please go here:
The GLOBE Program is inviting educators, both formal and informal, to apply for the 2016 GLOBE Distinguished Educator Fellowship. Educators will work with scientists to develop GLOBE educational materials. There will be three fellowships awarded in 2016: one for the United States and two for GLOBE countries other than the US.
Interested educators and scientists are invited to attend a webinar on 12 November 2015 at 20:00 UTC (3:00 p.m. EST). For more information on the fellowship and the...
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This article was written by Stephen Pruitt, Senior VP for ACHIEVE - a lead partner in developing the NGSS and developer of the ACHEIVE assessment rubric. It is a recap of his keynote speech for the NSTA 2015 National Conference in Chicago this past March. There are great insights and statements in here that are excellent to keep in mind as we work with educators and audiences while they are trying to navigate this new paradigm.
Below is the video that Mr. Pruitt gave at the 2015...Download
The New Horizons mission is fast approaching Pluto, helping us to understand worlds at the edge of our solar system by making the first reconnaissance of the dwarf planet and by venturing deeper into the distant, mysterious Kuiper Belt – a relic of solar system formation. As the world awaits this historic fly-by, NASA Wavelength has rounded up some great mission-related resources to help you expand your students’ horizons:
Summer is finally here, giving science teachers time to shore up their professional learning resources before the new school year approaches! Catch up on NSTA's new and innovative resources to help teachers of science—including elementary teachers—better understand and implement key practices and ideas in the Next Generation Science Standards. In addition to an interactive e-book, videos, publications and instructional resources showing NGSS/Framework-based teaching in action, NSTA is...
On December 2-3, 2014, the Space Studies Board and the Board on Science Education of the National Research Council held a workshop on the NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) education program - "Sharing the Adventure with the Student." The workshop brought together representatives of the space science and science education communities to discuss maximizing the...