NASA Resources For Educators - This site contains:A Guide to NASA's Education Programs, NASA Educator Workshop and Fellowship Opportunities, NASA Curriculum Support Materials, NASA Television and Video Resources, NASA Internet Resources for Educators, and NASA Research and Development Opportunities
(Added: 23-May-1999 Hits: 624) [Spider search][grade levels: all]
NASA Spacelink - An Aeronautics and Space Resource for Educators which includes a library, hot space
topics, and a collection of intriguing and educational NASA materials and site. Spacelink
is the official electronic home to NASA's Educational Products and provides hundreds of
subject-related links.
(Added: 23-May-1999 Hits: 714) [Spider search][grade levels: all]
Ocean Color Educational Resources - At this web site, you will find an electronic copy of the popular and out of print "Ocean Color From Space" document which provides an introduction to the scientific applications of
Ocean Color. The "Sea Surface Temperature and Phytoplankton Abundance" document was created by students at the U.S. Naval Academy as part of their Spring 1995 semester
project on Ocean Color. The "Ocean Color Bibliography" was created from a library search on the subject and is meant to be used as a starting point for further study and library
research. Finally, we provide links to many other sites of interest to marine sciences and science educators.
(Added: 23-May-1999 Hits: 552) [Spider search][grade levels: unspecified]
PUMAS (Practical Applications of Math And Science) - PUMAS (Practical Applications of Math And Science)
a collection of one-page examples of how math and science topics taught in K-12
classes can be used in interesting settings, including everyday life. The examples are written primarily by scientists and engineers, and are
available to teachers, students, and other interested parties via the PUMAS Web Site. Their goal is to capture, for the benefit of
pre-college education, the flavor of the vast experience that working scientists have with interesting and practical uses of math
and science. PUMAS is an on-line journal of brief examples illustrating how math and science concepts taught in pre-college classes are actually used in everyday life.Ý PUMAS offers a way for researchers to make a substantial contribution to education with a relatively small investment of time and effort.
PUMAS examples may be activities, anecdotes, descriptions of "neat ideas," formal exercises, puzzles, or demonstrations, written primarily by scientists, in any style that serves the material well.Ý They are intended mainly to help K-12 teachers enrich their presentation of science and math in the classroom.Ý The PUMAS web site provides wide distribution; the site receives over 3,000 hits per week, on average.
Teachers can search the PUMAS collection based on curriculum topic, grade level, or subject.Ý They can select relevant examples, and develop ideas of their own about how to integrate the material into their lesson plans.
All examples are peer-reviewed by at least one scientist with a relevant background, and at least one teacher at an appropriate grade level.Ý Once accepted, an example is a citable reference in a refereed science education journal, and may be listed in your resume.
Interested in participating?Ý The examples are available to everyone via the PUMAS web site.Ý The project also needs teachers at all grade levels, scientists, and engineers to volunteer for the pool of PUMAS reviewers.Ý And the project is always looking for good examples of the Practical Uses of Math And Science.
Contact:Ý Ralph Kahn, editor and founder, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, MS 169-237, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109 USA; Phone: 818-354-9024; FAX: 818-393-4619; Email: ralph.kahn@jpl.nasa.gov
(Added: 14-Jun-1999 Hits: 977) [Spider search][grade levels: 3-5|6-8|9-12|K-2]
Remote Sensing Core Curriculum - On-line lecture, exercises and materials to support
remote sensing education. Contains volumes on
photogrammetry, remote sensing of the environment,
digital image processing, remote sensing applications,
and K-12 remote sensing activities.
The Remote Sensing Core Curriculum (RSCC), sponsored by the International Center for Remote
Sensing Education (ICRSE), NASA, and the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
(ASPRS) is an education program developed in cooperation with international experts and businesses to
ensure an authoritative and substantive curriculum in remote sensing. The curriculum includes a series of
lecture outlines, accompanied by self-contained laboratory exercises developed to support the advancing
technologies of remote sensing and its integration with spatial information systems. Digital data sets from
existing and planned satellite missions will enhance the understanding of advanced concepts. The RSCC
design will ensure full access to data sets, operating software, and lecture materials via the RSCC home
page. The lecture series is organized under five volumes:
Volume 1: Airphoto Interpretation and Photogrammetry
Volume 2: Overview of Remote Sensing of the Environment
Volume 3: Introductory Digital Image Processing;
Volume 4. Remote-Sensing Applications; and
Volume 5. K-12 Education.
Contact: Joyce Foresman, International Center for Remote Sensing Education (ICRSE), UMBC
Technology Center, 1450 S. Rolling Road, Box 2-11, Baltimore, Maryland 21227; Phone: (410)
455-5573; Fax: (410) 455-5575; Email: icrse@symposia.org
(Added: 10-Sep-1999 Hits: 859) [Spider search][grade levels: all]
Remote Sensing Tutorial - A tutorial approach to learning about the role of space science and technology in monitoring the Earth's
surface and atmosphere. As you work through the tutorial, you will come to understand how remote
sensing is applied to studying the land, sea, and air making up the environments of our planet. Not only
will you gain insight into past uses of aerial photography and space imagery as records of the Earth's
geography as well as the future plans for more advanced monitoring systems, but you should develop
skills in interpreting these visual displays and data sets both by direct inspection and by computer
processing.
(Added: 22-May-1999 Hits: 1084) [Spider search][grade levels: post-secondary]
SeaWiFS Project - The SeaWiFS instrument is studying the carbon cycle by observing the world's oceans from space and
measuring ocean color. This site includes descriptive information about the project, a teachers' guide, and
access to SeaWiFS data and imagery.
(Added: 20-Apr-2001 Hits: 575) [Spider search][grade levels: unspecified]
SkyMath: Mathematics for a Blue Planet - The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) received funding from the National Science Foundation to prepare SkyMath, a set of middle school mathematics modules incorporating weather data. SkyMath requires teachers and students to acquire and use current environmental and real-time weather data in ways that embrace the dynamic and the uncertain natures of these data, in order to promote the teaching and learning of significant mathematics, consistent with the standards set by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. The SkyMath modules may be freely downloaded from the Internet. Recommended level: grades 5-8.
(Added: 19-Apr-2001 Hits: 804) [Spider search][grade levels: 3-5|6-8]
Space Place - WWW site geared at elementary age children. The site provide fun activities for children to do and make, while they learn about space and Earth science, and the technology than enables science. The"Teachers Corner" on the WWW site contains curriculum supplements originally published in the ITEAS's Technology Transfer Teacher magazine.
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