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Episode 10: Griffin Education with Tim Griffin

…to talk with a lot of professional academics – real-life scientists and real-life historians and archeologists – to find out more about what they do and how they do it. In fact, I’m doing a songwriting residency for NASA in May. They’re going to fly me to Atlanta for their international conference on astrobiology. I’ll…

Episode 4: Out of School Learning with Benjamin Dickow  

…can come in and work with hands-on interactive exhibits and see some objects’ displays. The Columbia Memorial Space Center is located in Downey, California, about 10 miles outside of downtown LA. NASA built all of the Apollo capsules that went to the moon and all the space shuttles. We’re located on this huge former NASA…

Episode 31: Bringing STEM Education into the Classroom and Making Music Education Relevant

…at NASA and in aerospace, or they work at Google.  Nati Rodriguez [3:46]  What is the number one reason those professionals decide to make that transition?   Angel Beamer [3:49]  Because it doesn’t seem rational, does it? What we’re not doing is accepting those who, maybe their consulting gig isn’t working out, so they’ll think they…

Episode 5: Rafael Cruz, LA County Teacher of the Year 2021-22

…and industry members and educators would look at their video and then give them feedback. In Flipgrid you could make a video and you could do a feedback video – that is something that I’m using now because I was able to get a lot of people: engineers, somebody from NASA, we got someone that…

unit: Interview with Luisa T. Molina

…NASA is looking at the intercontinental transport of air pollution, so they participated with “INTEX-B.” These are the four components. The total number of people participating inside Mexico is over 400, but this doesn’t include NASA, based in Houston, where they have another 100 investigators. And in terms of number of institutions, we have from…

unit: Processes of Science: Mars, a Case Study

Introduction This collection is unique in that it focuses on the eight practices of science and engineering from the NGSS standards. Photographs and the data they provide are important tools for scientists. #6016 Spirit Mars Rover in McMurdo Panorama This 360-degree view, called the “McMurdo” panorama, comes from the Panoramic Camera (Pancam) on NASA’s Mars…

section: Interview with Robert Crabtree

…on our ecosystem taking data. Interviewer: Why is Yellowstone one of the places of interest to the remote imaging community? BOB: The value of the Yellowstone ecosystem is as a reference or a gauge of what the earth should look like. A lot of scientists, including NASA and other federal agencies, like to see their…

program: Energy: Capture, Storage, and Transformation

Introduction #2575 Photographer: NASA/SDO/AIA Source: NASA/SDO/AIA Energy. We know it when we see its effects but have a hard time explaining it. If you ask students to picture the concept of energy, they might conjure up the images in this collection. They might have difficulty explaining how the photographs represent energy, however. Students can understand…

unit: Build a Solar Oven

Middle school learners will be guided through a series of challenges that follow the engineering design cycle. Join NASA on an adventure through solving an engineering challenge to create an oven using the energy from the sun. OBJECTIVE To demonstrate an understanding of the Engineering Design Process while utilizing each stage to successfully complete a…

unit: Build a Solar Oven

Grade 3-5 learners will be guided through a series of challenges that follow the engineering design cycle. Join NASA on an adventure through solving an engineering challenge to create an oven using the energy from the sun. DESIGN CHALLENGE To design and build a solar box cooker, and test it to see if it works…

unit: Build a Solar Oven

K-2 Learners will be guided through a series of challenges that follow the engineering design cycle. Join NASA on an adventure through solving an engineering challenge to create an oven using the energy from the sun. OBJECTIVE To demonstrate an understanding of the Engineering Design Process while utilizing each stage to successfully complete a team…

unit: Design a Lunar Thermos

Grade 3-5 learners will be guided through a series of challenges that follow the engineering design cycle. Join NASA on an adventure through solving an engineering challenge to design a thermos to keep water warm in space. Each step of the engineering design cycle will be performed by the learner. OBJECTIVE To demonstrate an understanding…

unit: Design a Lunar Thermos

Middle school learners will be guided through a series of challenges that follow the engineering design cycle. Join NASA on an adventure through solving an engineering challenge to design a thermos to keep water warm in space. Each step of the engineering design cycle will be performed by the learner. OBJECTIVE To demonstrate an understanding…

unit: Design a Landing Pod

Middle school learners will be guided through a series of challenges that follow the engineering design cycle. Join NASA on an adventure through solving an engineering challenge using the engineering design cycle to design and build a landing pod for your lunar buggy out of simple materials. OBJECTIVE To demonstrate an understanding of the Engineering…

section: Online Textbook

Online Text by Robert Kirshner The videos and online textbook units can be used independently. When using both, it is possible to start with either one. Watching the video first, and then reading the unit from the online textbook is recommended. Each unit was written by a prominent physicist who describes the cutting edge advances…

unit: Launch Your CEV

Grade 3-5 learners will be guided through a series of challenges that follow the engineering design cycle. Join NASA on an adventure through solving an engineering challenge to create a reusable launcher to send humans to the moon. OBJECTIVE To demonstrate an understanding of the Engineering Design Process while utilizing each stage to successfully complete…

unit: Design a Crew Exploration Vehicle

Grade 3-5 learners will be guided through a series of challenges that follow the engineering design cycle. Join NASA on an adventure through solving an engineering challenge to create a crew exploration vehicle to return humans to the moon with simple materials. OBJECTIVE To demonstrate an understanding of the Engineering Design Process while utilizing each…

unit: Build a Satellite to Orbit the Moon

Grades 3-5 learners will be guided through a series of challenges that follow the engineering design cycle. Join NASA on an adventure through solving an engineering challenge to design and build a satellite to orbit the moon using simple materials. OBJECTIVE To demonstrate an understanding of the Engineering Design Process while utilizing each stage to…

unit: Design a Lunar Thermos

K-2 Learners will be guided through a series of challenges that follow the engineering design cycle. Join NASA on an adeventure through solving an engineering challenge to design a thermos to keep water warm in space. Each step of the engineering design cycle will be performed by the learner. OBJECTIVE To demonstrate an understanding of…

unit: Design a Crew Exploration Vehicle

K-2 Learners will be guided through a series of challenges that follow the engineering design cycle. Join NASA on an adventure through solving an engineering challenge to create a crew exploration vehicle to return humans to the moon with simple materials. OBJECTIVE To demonstrate an understanding of the Engineering Design Process while utilizing each stage…

unit: Design a Landing Pod

K-2 Learners will be guided through a series of challenges that follow the engineering design cycle. Join NASA on an adventure through solving an engineering challenge using the engineering design cycle to design and build a landing pod for your lunar buggy out of simple materials. OBJECTIVE To demonstrate an understanding of the Engineering Design…

unit: Launch Your CEV

Middle school learners will be guided through a series of challenges that follow the engineering design cycle. Join NASA on an adeventure through solving an engineering challenge to create a reusable launcher to send humans to the moon. OBJECTIVE To demonstrate an understanding of the Engineering Design Process while utilizing each stage to successfully complete…

unit: Design a Crew Exploration Vehicle

Middle school learners will be guided through a series of challenges that follow the engineering design cycle. Join NASA on an adventure through solving an engineering challenge to create an crew exploration vehicle to return humans to the moon with simple materials. OBJECTIVE To demonstrate an understanding of the Engineering Design Process while utilizing each…

unit: Build a Satellite to Orbit the Moon

K-2 Learners will be guided through a series of challenges that follow the engineering design cycle. Join NASA on an adventure through solving an engineering challenge to design and build a satellite to orbit the moon using simple materials. OBJECTIVE To demonstrate an understanding of the Engineering Design Process while utilizing each stage to successfully…

unit: Build a Satellite to Orbit the Moon

Middle school learners will be guided through a series of challenges that follow the engineering design cycle. Join NASA on an adventure through solving an engineering challenge to design and build a satellite to orbit the moon using simple materials. OBJECTIVE To demonstrate an understanding of the Engineering Design Process while utilizing each stage to…

unit: Many Planets, One Earth

unit: Prepare for a Mission

Join NASA on an adventure through solving an engineering challenge using the engineering design cycle to design and build a robotic lunar rover to traverse the lunar landscape. OBJECTIVE To demonstrate an understanding of the Engineering Design Process while utilizing each stage to successfully complete a team challenge. DESIGN CHALLENGE To execute a mini-simulation of…

unit: Design a Lunar Buggy

Grade 3-5 learners will be guided through a series of challenges that follow the engineering design cycle. Join NASA on an adventure through solving an engineering challenge to design and build a robotic lunar rover to traverse the lunar landscape. OBJECTIVE To demonstrate an understanding of the Engineering Design Process while utilizing each stage to…

unit: Design a Landing Pod

Grade 3-5 learners will be guided through a series of challenges that follow the engineering design cycle. Join NASA on an adventure through solving an engineering challenge using the engineering design cycle to design and build a landing pod for your lunar buggy out of simple materials. OBJECTIVE To demonstrate an understanding of the Engineering…

unit: Design a Lunar Buggy

Middle school learners will be guided through a series of challenges that follow the engineering design cycle. Join NASA on an adventure through solving an engineering challenge to design and build a robotic lunar rover to traverse the lunar landscape. OBJECTIVE To demonstrate an understanding of the Engineering Design Process while utilizing each stage to…

unit: Design a Lunar Buggy

K-2 Learners will be guided through a series of challenges that follow the engineering design cycle. Join NASA on an adventure through solving an engineering challenge to build a lunar buggy out of simple materials. OBJECTIVE To demonstrate an understanding of the Engineering Design Process while utilizing each stage to successfully complete a team challenge….

unit: Prepare for a Mission

K-2 Learners will be guided through a series of challenges that follow the engineering design cycle. Join NASA on an adventure through solving an engineering challenge to design and build a robotic lunar rover to traverse the lunar landscape. OBJECTIVE To demonstrate an understanding of the Engineering Design Process while utilizing each stage to successfully…

unit: Prepare for a Mission

Join NASA on an adventure through solving an engineering challenge using the engineering design cycle to design and build a robotic lunar rover to traverse the lunar landscape. OBJECTIVE Students will demonstrate an understanding of the Engineering Design Process while utilizing each stage to successfully complete a team challenge. DESIGN CHALLENGE To execute a mini-simulation…

section: Online Textbook

Online Text by Peter Fisher The videos and online textbook units can be used independently. When using both, it is possible to start with either one. Watching the video first, and then reading the unit from the online textbook is recommended. Each unit was written by a prominent physicist who describes the cutting edge advances…

unit: Launch Your Satellite

Middle school learners will be guided through a series of challenges that follow the engineering design cycle. Join NASA on an adventure through solving an engineering challenge to launch your satellite design. OBJECTIVE To demonstrate an understanding of the Engineering Design Process while utilizing each stage to successfully complete a team challenge. DESIGN CHALLENGE To…

Press Release: Annenberg Foundation and Two Bit Circus Foundation Ignite Lifelong Love for Arts and Sciences with Free STEAM-Based Online Projects

…NASA’s BEST Students: Build a Satellite to Orbit the Moon Use the engineering design process to build a satellite that can orbit the moon “Education needs a revolution,” said Dr. Leah Hanes, CEO of Two Bit Circus Foundation. “Our current situation is pushing us to find new ways of teaching to engage children and help…

section: Guide to Researching Photographs

…photographer or a private entity may own the copyright. (See additional sources in Additional Photograph Resources.) www.loc.gov www.nasa.gov www.wdl.org/en www.archives.gov http://dp.la www.genome.gov www.photolib.noaa.gov Tie Photographs to Learning Targets and Standards Think about connections to local and national standards. For example: When it comes to meeting state and national learning standards, how can photographs help students…

section: Scientists

…Archean and Proterozoic paleontology and biogeochemistry, including the early diversification of prokaryotic metabolisms, the initial radiation of eukaryotic life, and the rise of large complex algae and animals. He is also actively involved in Mars exploration, both as part of NASA’s 2004 MER missions and in the planning for future landings. // Read interview transcript…

unit: Launch Your Satellite

Grade 3-5 learners will be guided through a series of challenges that follow the engineering design cycle. Join NASA on an adventure through solving an engineering challenge to launch your satellite design. OBJECTIVE To demonstrate an understanding of the Engineering Design Process while utilizing each stage to successfully complete a team challenge. DESIGN CHALLENGE To…

unit: Interview with Featured Scientist David Spergel

…and when we announced our first results NASA very generously let us rename the satellite the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe to honor David and his contributions to the field. WMAP is in many ways a very simple experiment. It just sits there at four times the distance to the moon and scans the sky over…

section: Interview with Lonnie Thompson

…there’s already a selection process going on in which classes they’re going to take. So I look at all these – you know, outreach programs that these NASA and NOAA have, and – but I look back and I say, you know, when – when were there a lot of young people interested in going…

unit: Launch Your CEV

K-2 Learners will be guided through a series of challenges that follow the engineering design cycle. Join NASA on an adventure through solving an engineering challenge to create a reusable launcher to send humans to the moon. OBJECTIVE To demonstrate an understanding of the Engineering Design Process while utilizing each stage to successfully complete a…

unit: Launch Your Satellite

K-2 Learners will be guided through a series of challenges that follow the engineering design cycle. Join NASA on an adventure through solving an engineering challenge to launch your satellite design. OBJECTIVE To demonstrate an understanding of the Engineering Design Process while utilizing each stage to successfully complete a team challenge. DESIGN CHALLENGE To design…

section: Scientists

…was also lead project scientist for the NASA-funded Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center where she worked on large-scale data integration, and analysis, of geographic, survey, and administrative data. Among her current projects, she is principal investigator on two studies of urbanization and a National Science Foundation-funded project on emerging infectious disease. She is currently a…

section: Interview with Andy Knoll

Interviewer: What makes Mars different from Earth? ANDY: If you look at a picture of Mars from one of the NASA spacecraft, the big difference is obvious right away and that is whereas Earth is this blue planet whose distinguishing feature is water, Mars is this red planet whose distinguishing feature is rock. There’s very…

section: Online Textbook

Online Text By Blayne Heckel The videos and online textbook units can be used independently. When using both, it is possible to start with either one. Watching the video first, and then reading the unit from the online textbook is recommended. Each unit was written by a prominent physicist who describes the cutting edge advances…

section: Online Textbook

Online Text by Shamit Kachru The videos and online textbook units can be used independently. When using both, it is possible to start with either one. Watching the video first, and then reading the unit from the online textbook is recommended. Each unit was written by a prominent physicist who describes the cutting edge advances…

program: Earth, Climate, and Change: Observing Human Impact

Introduction #3552 Climate change means the unusually rapid warming of the atmosphere and its scientifically documented effects around the world. The warming is measurable: although annual local weather patterns vary, the average global temperature has increased by nearly 0.8ºC (1.5º F) in the last 100 years. This might not sound like much, but even small…

unit: Earth’s Changing Climate

section: Focus In on This Photo: Spirit Lander and Bonneville Crater in Color

#6023 The digital-colorized image depicts a crater on the planet Mars and includes some of the surrounding area….

section: #6023 Spirit Lander and Bonneville Crater in Color

section: #6009 Martian Dust Storm

section: #6014 Blueberry Spherules

section: #6031 Tenoumer Crater, Mauritania

section: #2575

section: #6022 Late Afternoon Shadows at Endeavour Crater on Mars

unit: Atmospheric Pollution

section: Additional Photograph Resources

Here you will find a list of links to common digitized photograph and photographic ephemera collections for both humanities and science-based topics, primarily from the United States. Local libraries and historical societies are also a great place to access photographs that connect to both local and national history. Local science museums may also have digitized…

section: #6020 First Use of Mars Rover Curiosity’s Dust Removal Tool

video: Thinking Like a Mathematician (video)

Constantina “Dina” Burow walks her students through logarithmic functions by breaking down a word problem from a mathematics textbook and then showing them how their previous knowledge of exponential functions helps them graph and solve logarithmic functions. Teacher: Constantina “Dina” Burow School: Health Sciences High and Middle College, San Diego, CA Grade: 11 Discipline: Mathematics…

section: Online Textbook

Online Text by Robert Austin The videos and online textbook units can be used independently. When using both, it is possible to start with either one. Watching the video first, and then reading the unit from the online textbook is recommended. Each unit was written by a prominent physicist who describes the cutting edge advances…

video: Collaborative Talk About Mathematics

In Constantina “Dina” Burow’s classroom, developing discussion skills within team practice scenarios helps to not only work through the mathematics content at hand, but to also build the very important 21st- century skills of collaboration. Teacher: Constantina “Dina” Burow School: Health Sciences High and Middle College, San Diego, CA Grade: 11 Discipline: Mathematics (Algebra 2)…

section: #6001 Dune

section: #6021 Whitewater Lake Rock Viewed by Opportunity

section: #6007 McLaughlin Crater Image Clues

section: #6019 Matijevic Hill

section: #6011 Destination, Mount Sharp Terrain

section: #6018 Remnants of Ancient Streambed on Mars

section: #6006 Polar Region of Mars

section: #6010 A Moment Frozen in Time

section: #6002 Murray Ridge

section: #6012 Carbonate-Containing Martian Rocks

section: #6015 Iron Meteorite

section: #6016 Spirit Mars Rover in McMurdo Panorama

section: #6017 Link to a Watery Past

section: Online Textbook

lesson: Earth’s Solid Membrane | A Closer Look

A Closer Look Soil Horizons Soil Formation…

video: Human Population Dynamics Video

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section: Online Textbook

section: #2553

section: Online Textbook

Online Text by David Pines The videos and online textbook units can be used independently. When using both, it is possible to start with either one. Watching the video first, and then reading the unit from the online textbook is recommended. Each unit was written by a prominent physicist who describes the cutting edge advances…

section: Online Textbook

Online Text by Lene Hau The videos and online textbook units can be used independently. When using both, it is possible to start with either one. Watching the video first, and then reading the unit from the online textbook is recommended. Each unit was written by a prominent physicist who describes the cutting edge advances…

section: Online Textbook

Online Text by Natalie Roe The videos and online textbook units can be used independently. When using both, it is possible to start with either one. Watching the video first, and then reading the unit from the online textbook is recommended. Each unit was written by a prominent physicist who describes the cutting edge advances…

unit: Human Population Dynamics

video: The Behavior of Atoms: Phases of Matter and the Properties of Gases

This program explores the phases of matter—solids, liquids, and gases—and how particles in a given phase interact with each other. Phase diagrams explain at what temperature and pressure a given substance will be in a solid, liquid, or gas phase. Practical problems, like how to safely store enough hydrogen gas to power an automobile, are…

section: #6030 Blue Marble

section: #6029 Hubble’s Sharpest View of Mars

video: Online Textbook and Video

This online textbook chapter supports and extends the content of the Biodiversity video. The chapter examines our moral responsibilities to catalog and maintain the world’s ecosystems. Click on the Go button to begin reading, or skip to a sub-section in the list below….

lesson: Online Textbook

Online Text by David Kaplan The videos and online textbook units can be used independently. When using both, it is possible to start with either one. Watching the video first, and then reading the unit from the online textbook is recommended. Each unit was written by a prominent physicist who describes the cutting edge advances…

section: #3606

unit: Online Textbook

section: Online Textbook

Online Text by William P. Reinhardt The videos and online textbook units can be used independently. When using both, it is possible to start with either one. Watching the video first, and then reading the unit from the online textbook is recommended. Each unit was written by a prominent physicist who describes the cutting edge…

section: Online Textbook

Online Text by Shamit Kachru The videos and online textbook units can be used independently. When using both, it is possible to start with either one. Watching the video first, and then reading the unit from the online textbook is recommended. Each unit was written by a prominent physicist who describes the cutting edge advances…

timeline: Search for Identity – Timeline

This timeline places literary publications (in black) in their historical contexts (in red).

video: A Better Brain: The Ethics of Neuro-Enhancement

As our story begins, Maria, a teacher, sits at a school assembly, where a graduate who now works at Hype Pharmaceuticals describes a new drug called Alerta. Developed for people with narcolepsy, it allows someone to forego sleep for extended periods of time. Maria doesn’t have narcolepsy—she is perfectly healthy, in fact—but she does have…

unit: Reading In Science

video: Making a Difference Through Giving

Video Summary: How do you teach students to become effective citizens? How can young children make positive contributions to their community? Darlene Jones-Inge challenges her fourth- and fifth-grade students to think of realistic solutions to some of the problems facing their school, community, country, and the world. Ms. Jones-Inge begins with a class discussion about…

video: Matter and the Rise of Atomic Theory: The Art of the Meticulous

This program traces the story of how humans have always practiced chemistry; how, over time, it developed from a practical discipline into a science. Today, we keep up the chemists’ tradition to refine and purify substances. A current, real-life application of the “art of the meticulous” is the refining and purification of pure silicon from…

video: New World Encounters

unit: Dark Energy

This unit focuses on one of the biggest questions in 21st century physics: what is the fate of the universe? In recent years, astronomers have been surprised to discover that the expansion of the universe is speeding up. We attribute this to the influence of a “dark energy” that may have its origin in the…

unit: Energy Challenges

video: Atoms and Light: Exploring Atomic and Electronic Structure

In the early 20th century, identification of the internal parts of the atom (electrons, protons, and neutrons) led to a modern subatomic theory. Meanwhile, the study of atomic spectra—the light given off by atoms at definite wavelengths—led to the Bohr model of the atom, where electrons exist at distinct energy levels and move between these…

section: #6013 Short, Fast Run

section: #6008 Barchan Dunes on the Move

section: #6005 Dry Ice Gone Wild

section: #6004 Icy Layers and Climate Fluctuations Near the Martian North Pole

section: #6004 Icy Layers and Climate Fluctuations Near the Martian North Pole

program: Garbage: The Science and Problem of What We Throw Away

Introduction Each person in the United States generates five or more pounds (2.3 kilograms) of waste a day: about the weight of a medium bag of sugar. More than half of that garbage is buried and stored in landfills. Increasingly, however, cities are promoting recycling programs, often getting schools involved so students can learn about…

section: Online Textbook