[NTA] FW: [education] FYI: NSTA Express Announces NASA-related opportunity -- Student Experiments Aboard the International Space Station
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Subject: [education] FYI: NSTA Express Announces NASA-related opportunity --
Student Experiments Aboard the International Space Station
Note following NASA-related announcement released by NSTA.
Student Experiments Aboard the International Space Station
The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE), in
partnership with NanoRacks, LLC, announces an immediate opportunity for
communities across the U.S. to participate in the first Student Spaceflight
Experiments Program (SSEP) mission to America's National Laboratory in
space-the International Space Station (ISS). The program is also open to ISS
partner nations.
Each participating community will be provided an experiment slot in a real
microgravity research mini-laboratory scheduled to fly on the ISS from March 30
to May 16, 2012. An experiment design competition in each community-engaging
typically 300 to 1,000 students-allows student teams to design real experiments
vying for their community's reserved experiment slot on ISS. Additional SSEP
programming leverages the experiment design competition to engage the
community, embracing a Learning Community Model for STEM education.
SSEP missions on STS-134 (Shuttle Endeavour) and STS-135 (Shuttle Atlantis)
have recently been completed, with 1,027 student team proposals received, and
27 SSEP experiments selected and flown-representing the 27 communities that
participated in SSEP on the Space Shuttle.
Go to SSEP Mission 1 to ISS National Announcement of Opportunity to learn more.
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Week of August 8, 2011
Table of Contents
* NSTA Legislative Update: How Will the Debt Ceiling Deal Affect K-12
Education? <#0>
* Professional Development Down to a Science <#1>
* Student Experiments Aboard the International Space Station <#2>
* Just Back From the Beach? <#3>
* Duncan Calls for Transformation of Teaching Profession <#4>
* Brain-Powered Science: Teaching and Learning with Discrepant Events <#5>
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NSTA Legislative Update: How Will the Debt Ceiling Affect K-12 Education?
As widely reported, Congress finally approved a last-minute deal to raise the
debt ceiling last week, which will reduce federal spending by $7 billion in
fiscal year 2012 and create a new 12-member "Super Commission" charged with
cutting $1.5 trillion in discretionary spending over the next 10 years. U.S.
Rep. George Miller (D-CA), ranking Democrat on the House Education and
Workforce Committee, told the Associated Press that "discretionary spending
cuts imposed by the deal would make life much more difficult for public
schools." Other pundits predict the Department of Education may see reductions
of more than 6%.
Read more on early predictions about how education funding will factor into the
Commission's deficit-reduction plans:
* Debt Ceiling Deal: Big Questions for K-12 (Education Week)
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* Debt Ceiling Deal's Effects on K-12 Education Unclear (U.S. News & World
Report)
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* Debt-Ceiling Bill Forces Cuts to Education Spending (eSchool News)
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Professional Development Down to a Science
NSTA's fall roster for Area Conferences on Science Education includes locations
in Hartford, CT, Oct. 27-29; New Orleans, LA, Nov. 10-12; and Seattle, WA, Dec.
8-10. Exemplary professional development will be offered at each conference,
and science educators can count on more than 400 workshops, presentations,
seminars, and sessions to choose from. Teachers in every discipline and from
every grade band, K-16, can select their preferences: content development,
assessment, inquiry, full-day sessions, discipline-specific content, and more.
Attendees will hear inspiring speakers such as actor and environmentalist Ted
Danson and Leroy Hood, MD, PhD, president and cofounder of the Institute for
Systems Biology who will speak on The Emergence of Predictive Biology and
Personalized Medicine. Stephen Pruitt, vice president for Content, Research,
and Development for Achieve, Inc., will speak on the development of the
Next-Generation Science Education Standards.
Elementary teachers can look forward to a Picture-Perfect Science Preconference
Workshop that focuses on integration of science and reading through the use of
picture books. Middle and high school teachers won't want to miss strategic
workshops such as The Multilevel Classroom: Differentiation Strategies for
Science and Evolution and Medicine: A New Approach to a Central Topic in High
School Biology. Other highlights include a special symposium [NSTA's Exemplary
Science Programs (ESP): Meeting the Reform Features from the National Science
Education Standards], field trips to interesting local sites, opportunities to
network with peers, an Exhibit Hall filled with cutting-edge products, and
giveaways to take back to the classroom.
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Student Experiments Aboard the International Space Station
The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE), in
partnership with NanoRacks, LLC, announces an immediate opportunity for
communities across the U.S. to participate in the first Student Spaceflight
Experiments Program (SSEP) mission to America's National Laboratory in
space-the International Space Station (ISS). The program is also open to ISS
partner nations.
Each participating community will be provided an experiment slot in a real
microgravity research mini-laboratory scheduled to fly on the ISS from March 30
to May 16, 2012. An experiment design competition in each community-engaging
typically 300 to 1,000 students-allows student teams to design real experiments
vying for their community's reserved experiment slot on ISS. Additional SSEP
programming leverages the experiment design competition to engage the
community, embracing a Learning Community Model for STEM education.
SSEP missions on STS-134 (Shuttle Endeavour) and STS-135 (Shuttle Atlantis)
have recently been completed, with 1,027 student team proposals received, and
27 SSEP experiments selected and flown-representing the 27 communities that
participated in SSEP on the Space Shuttle.
Go to SSEP Mission 1 to ISS National Announcement of Opportunity to learn more.
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Critical Deadline: All participating communities must be aboard by September
15, 2011.
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Just Back From the Beach?
Here's what you missed. On July 19, the National Research Council released its
new framework for K-12 science education, identifying the key concepts and
practices that all students should learn. This framework will serve as the
basis for the Next Generation Science Standards, a state-led effort that will
be managed by Achieve, Inc., over the next 18 months.
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on the new K-12 Framework for Science Education presented by Dr. Helen Quinn
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Duncan Calls for Transformation of Teaching Profession
On July 29, in a speech to the National Board of Professional Teaching
Standards
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, Secretary Duncan said the U.S. should radically transform the way that
teachers are recruited, assigned, evaluated, and compensated, in order to
recognize and reward its great veteran teachers, attract top students into the
field, and make the country more competitive. He called on teachers to rebuild
their profession, to give themselves more autonomy in exchange for
performance-based accountability. "Teachers must own this and drive this," he
explained. "Change can only come from the men and women who do the hard work
every day within our classrooms." He also called for higher salaries to make
teaching more competitive with other venerated professions like law, medicine,
and engineering. He suggested that starting salaries of around $60,000 and top
salaries approaching $150,000 would help change the economics of the
profession, while acknowledging the difficulty of finding more funding when
governments at every level are wrestling with debt and deficits.
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Brain-Powered Science: Teaching and Learning with Discrepant Events
Brain-Powered Science is the ideal resource for middle and high school teachers
looking to stimulate students' thinking. Thirty-three hands-on activities based
on the science of a "discrepant event"-an experiment or demonstration in which
the outcome is not what students expect-will motivate students to reconsider
preconceived notions and think about what has actually occurred.
Author Thomas O'Brien invites teachers to actively participate in the
thought-provoking demonstrations, challenging them to question and revise their
own assumptions about the nature of science, teaching, and learning. The
dual-purpose activities, which are each analogous to a pedagogical principle,
will uncover unpredicted results for both students and teachers, leading to a
deeper understanding of science concepts.
Teachers can take advantage of 200 up-to-date internet resources included in
the book, as well as extensions to each of the physical science, biology, and
chemistry activities-bringing the total number to nearly 120. This book will
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