The Dynamic Earth - Discovery Science Center is an interactive science center with over 100 hands-on exhibits augmented by educational programming and materials providing learning opportunities for students, teachers, and family audiences. Interested parties should contact the Education Department or Group Bookings at (714) 542-2823. Contact: Janet Yamaguchi, Vice President, Education, Discovery Science Center, 2500 North Main Street, Santa Ana, CA 92705; Phone: (714) 542-2823; Fax: (714) 542-2828; Email: jyamaguchi@discoverycube.org (Added: 5-Feb-2001 Hits: 1439) [Spider search][grade levels: all]

 The Gaia Crossroads Project - The Gaia Crossroads project is an innovative program using satellite remote sensing in K-12 classrooms. This progressive program captures the interest of elementary students and sustains their interest through high school. Using the imagery provided, students are able to study and interpret satellite images of their local communities. After the initial focus on the local environment, the program expands to include images of a broader geographic coverage-the Gulf of Maine and the North Atlantic for studying oceanography, weather satellite images for studying meteorology, and images of tropical rain forests for studying global ecosystems. The project provides ongoing teacher training and technical support. Contact: Cynthia B. Erickson, Project Director, The Gaia Crossroads Project, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, P.O. Box 475, McKown Point, West Boothbay Harbor, ME 04575-0475; Phone: (207) 633-9600; Fax: (207) 633-9641; Email: gaiaxroads@bigelow.org (Added: 6-Feb-2001 Hits: 685) [Spider search][grade levels: 3-5|6-8|9-12|K-2]

 The JASON Project - The JASON Foundation engages students in science and technology, and motivates and provides professional development opportunities for teachers through the use of advanced interactive telecommunications. JASON expeditions, targeted for grades 4-10, are supported by extensive teacher training and award-winning curriculum and Internet program, and feature live, interactive broadcasts through robotics, fiber optics, television production, computer science, and satellite communications. JASON programs are broadcast to 36 Primary Interactive Network Sites (PINS) throughout the United States and the world. JASON also provides live broadcasts of expeditions directly to classrooms and through streaming video on the Internet. NASA PINS include Ames Research Center, Goddard Space Flight Center, and Johnson Space Center. Programs focus on oceans, rainforests, extreme environments, volcanoes and exploration of inner and outer space. All programs focus on connecting students and teachers with researchers and scientists in the field. Contact: JASON Foundation for Education, 395 Totten Pond Road, Waltham, MA 02451; Phone: (781) 487-9995; Fax: (781) 487-9999; Email: info@jason.org (Added: 5-Feb-2001 Hits: 1450) [Spider search][grade levels: 3-5|6-8|9-12]

 The Pigeon Adventure: An Adventure through Remote-Sensing History - The Pigeon Adventure is an interactive Web site and hands-on activities that are being developed to teach children in grades K through 4 about remote sensing and change over time. Set in New York City, the product will present science concepts via a Pigeon as metaphor familiar to inner-city children to introduce the concept of perspective and change in urban habitats. Through aerial photography created by pigeon cameras, the product will focus on the benefits of a bird's eye view then introduce the advances of remote sensing throughout the century. The interactive adventure will engage children to follow a carrier pigeon on an adventure through New York City. They will be challenged to solve problems based on historical information gathered from the Pigeon's adventure and visual cues in the satellite imagery. These problems will emphasize how the city and its habitats have changed over time. Thus drawing a systemic relationship of urban development, change-over-time, and its effect on biodiversity. The supplemental materials will enable educators to introduce and reinforce the concepts through hands-on activities linked to national standards. Parents and teachers will be able to teach Earth system science via identification of land use in remotely-sensed imagery, exploration of featured habitats, and through the investigation of the interactions and changes in these systems. Contact: Ginger Butcher, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Mail Stop 920, Greenbelt, MD 20771; Phone: (301) 614-6540; Email: ginger@ltpmail.gsfc.nasa.gov (Added: 18-Apr-2001 Hits: 522) [Spider search][grade levels: 3-5|6-8|9-12]

 The Translingual Earth System Science Education Center - As NASA's Earth system science program advances, remarkable innovations in classroom technology promise a wider audience than ever. But in spite of the promise of reaching a broader audience, Earth system science remains a largely English-speaking phenomenon confined to university campuses. The multidisciplinary approaches and integrated tenets of Earth system science are nonexistent in most minority-dominated rural school districts of Texas and the U.S./Mexico borderlands. In the Spanish-speaking countries of Central and South America, a systems approach to Earth science education is likewise nonexistent. In a joint international effort led by Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, on-line technologies will be coupled with existing teacher cohort networks to deliver trilingual Earth system science content to Hispanic students and educators in Texas, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and selected Latin American countries. Contact: Grady Blount, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Dept. of Physical and Life Sciences, College of Science and Technology, 6300 Ocean Drive, CS 130, Corpus Christi, Texas 78412; Phone: (361) 825-2358; Fax: (361) 825-2742 (Added: 18-Apr-2001 Hits: 642) [Spider search][grade levels: 3-5|6-8|9-12]

 TOPEX/POSEIDON and Jason-1 Educational Outreach - Jointly sponsored by NASA and the French Space Agency (CNES) the TOPEX/POSEIDON satellite has continuously surveyed the ocean surface height with a radar altimeter since launch in 1992. Now operating beyond its design lifetime, it is hoped that TOPEX/POSEIDON will continue to collect data until fall of 2000 when the follow-on mission, Jason-1, will be launched. Scientists are using TOPEX/POSEIDON satellite data, accurate to within 4cm, to learn about ocean circulation including phenomena such as the El NiÒo/La NiÒa cycle. Oceans are a key mechanism in transporting heat from the sun around the globe. Researchers are working to improve the understanding of the role of oceans in controlling seasonal variations and longer-term climate changes. TOPEX/POSEIDON data are also used for operational purposes including ship routing, fisheries management, hurricane forecasting and support of underwater activities such as cable laying. The TOPEX/POSEIDON and Jason-1 projects develop and provide a wide variety of physical oceanography materials to K-13 educators and students including CD-ROMs, posters, brochures and videos. Many resources are available through the Web. TOPEX/POSEIDON satellite data are posted on the Web and can be accessed for use in the classroom. Contact: Susan Digby, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, M/S 263-355, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109 USA; Phone: (818) 354-6036; Fax (818) 354-0368; Email: topex@jpl.nasa.gov (Added: 18-Apr-2001 Hits: 1107) [Spider search][grade levels: 3-5|6-8|9-12|K-2]

 University Based Program in Earth System Science Education (ESSE) - The ESSE program consists of faculty from 44 U.S. universities who are linked with one another and with NASA scientists in the development of undergraduate curricula in Earth system science. Managed by the Universities Space Research Association (USRA), the program offers financial incentives to universities that are willing to participate cooperatively with other universities and NASA in interdisciplinary curricula development for Earth system science education. Each university in the program has developed a survey course and senior-level courses in which faculty present Earth system issues as a socially-relevant, challenging, and important class of scientific problems. The objective of the survey-level course is to instill among the general student population an appreciation of the social, economic, and political implications of global change, and a scientific understanding of interrelationships between the Earth's physical and climate system and ecological systems. The objective of the advanced senior-level course is to provide students in the sciences and mathematics with an interdisciplinary perspective of Earth science and global change research. In the senior course, students from different academic departments work in teams to study and develop conceptual and computer models of physical, chemical, and biological processes of the Earth system. The senior course is taught by faculty from at least two relevant academic departments, and focuses on scientific issues that draw upon the strengths of the institution. As part of the broader program, universities participate in an organized exchange of scientists and faculty, involving visiting faculty and scientists from other participating universities and from NASA Centers. Contacts: Donald Johnson, Phone: (608) 262-2538, Email: donj@ssec.wisc.edu; Michael Kalb, Phone: (301) 805-8396, Email: mkalb@gvsp.usra.edu; Martin Ruzek, Phone: (920) 732-4514, Email: ruzek@usra.edu, Universities Space Research Association, 7501 Forbes Blvd, Suite 206, Seabrook, MD 20706 (Added: 18-Apr-2001 Hits: 576) [Spider search][grade levels: adult|post-secondary]

 University of Montana's Earth Observing System (EOS) Education Project - This project disseminates EOS mission imagery, supportive curriculum, and relevant programs to the K-16 education community. The EOS Education Project also provides training for the K-16 educational community in the interpretation, utilization, and relevancy of EOS mission imagery. These resources are delivered through a dynamic combination of online and onsite teacher workshops, Internet-based courses, national conferences, interactive map and image servers, and Earth system science content. Contact: Phone: 1-800-0411-0341; Email: umtonline@selway.umt.edu (Added: 6-Feb-2001 Hits: 613) [Spider search][grade levels: 3-5|6-8|9-12|K-2|post-secondary]

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