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- From: "NASA Education" <education@xxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:01:33 -0400
NASA Quest Announces the HiRISE Image Targeting Challenge Help NASA on the quest for signs of water on the Red Planet. The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera now orbiting Mars is helping NASA search for signs of water on Mars. Students are invited to help choose regions of Mars for HiRISE to image. The HiRISE team will pick several suggestions and image them with the camera in the coming months. The participants will represent the first people on Earth to see the resulting image and will have the chance to search for signs of water in the image. Background information, teacher guides, student activity books and tutorials are available online to help students choose a region. Interested teachers and students are encouraged to register online to receive more information about how to participate. Initial hypotheses are due March 23, 2008. For more information, visit http://quest.nasa.gov/challenges/hirise/ Register Today for Upcoming NASA/NSTA Symposia and Web Seminars Join NASA and NSTA for two symposia for elementary, middle and high school educators. These NASA symposia are blended professional development opportunities. They include a face-to-face workshop at the National Conference on Science Education in Boston, Mass., followed by two NSTA Web Seminars to extend the interaction between the participants and the NASA presenters. Symposia attendees must register for the conference. 21st Century Explorer -- Today s Knowledge for Tomorrow s Explorer NASA and NSTA are partnering to present a symposium for elementary educators of grades 3-5. Each participant will be exposed to the NASA 21st Century Explorer project. Symposium participants will be introduced to the 12 hands-on scientific exploration activities that are part of the project and conduct one during the workshop. Each of these activities promotes higher-order thinking skills and expands the space exploration knowledge base of the bilingual educator, learner and family. The 12 educational packages also provide career connections. These connections introduce students to the subject matter experts who helped create each of the science concepts for the hands-on activities and provide a link to the specific researcher, scientist or engineer. Participants will also have an opportunity to participate in an assessment of the project by providing educator-based comments for improvement of the activities. All participants will receive educational materials written in English and Spanish and information about resources at NASA. A drawing for prizes will be held at the end of the program. Graduate credit may be available at an additional cost to participants. This symposium will take place on March 27, 2008, from 1:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. in Room 257A of the Boston Convention Center. NASA will provide a stipend of $60 to all participants attending this symposium upon its completion. For more information about this symposium, visit http:// learningcenter.nsta.org/products/symposia_seminars/boston08/ NASA-Explorers/symposium.aspx Mapping the Moon: Simulating LOLA in the Classroom NASA and NSTA are partnering to present a symposium for elementary, middle and high school educators of grades 4-12. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, scheduled to launch in October 2008, will carry the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter. LOLA will produce topographic maps of the moon. In this symposium, participants will learn how to create a topographic map and use it to determine the path a robot will traverse through Lunar Land, a 150-centimeter-square mock-up of a surface with obstacles of various heights. This experience engages participants in an activity analogous to that which real lunar scientists might do. Along with other possibilities, the activity offers an opportunity to discuss lunar science, fundamentals of measurement (including measurement uncertainty), spatial resolution in the context of remote sensing, and graphical representation and analysis of data. All participants will receive educational materials and information about resources at NASA. A drawing for prizes will take place at the end of the program. Graduate credit may be available at an additional cost to participants. This symposium will take place on March 28, 2008, from 1:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. in Room 257A of the Boston Convention Center. NASA will provide a stipend of $60 to all participants attending this symposium upon its completion. For more information about this symposium, visit http:// learningcenter.nsta.org/products/symposia_seminars/boston08/ NASA-Mapping/symposium.aspx. 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