Washington NASA Space Grant Consortium Newsletter forTeachers
Posted on Tuesday, January 26 @ 13:12:09 MST by rick
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
-- CHEMISTRY GRANTS FOR TEACHERS (K-12)
-- NEW EARTHKAM SITE TESTING (5-8)
-- SEND EXPERIMENTS FLYING WITH NASA (9-12)
-- A GLIMPSE INTO THE INTERIOR OF MARS
NEW EARTHKAM SITE TESTING (5-8)
Sponsored by NASA, EarthKAM (Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle
School Students) is an educational outreach program allowing middle
school students to take pictures of our Earth from a digital camera on
board the International Space Station.
Middle school educators are invited to join EarthKAM's beta test team
for the International Space Station Winter 2010 Mission from February
2-5, 2010. For more information about the project and to register for
the upcoming mission, visit
http://earthkam.ucsd.edu/
CHEMISTRY GRANTS FOR TEACHERS (K-12)
The Puget Sound chapter of the American Chemical Society will award
one-year grants of up to $500 to area K-12 teachers.
Awards may be used for supplies and equipment for high school students
conducting chemistry/sciencer demonstrations at K-9 schools; for
selected chemistry journals and books, including safety and waste
disposal texts; for K-12 teacher supplies and equipment to develop new
chemistry experiments; and for K-12 teachers to attend chemistry
courses, symposia or institutes.
Teachers are asked to submit a one-page proposal. Preference will be
given to teachers who are extending their range of competence. The
deadline for proposals is April 30, 2010. For more information, please
contact Clarita Bhat at
claritabhat@yahoo.com
SEND EXPERIMENTS FLYING WITH NASA (9-12)
The NASA BalloonSat High ALtitude Flight (BHALF) competition is open
to teams of four or more students in grades 9 to 12 from high schools
and community groups throughout the United States, District of
Columbia, and U.S. territories.
Teams will develop a flight experiment or technology demonstration and
submit a proposal for consideration by a panel of NASA scientists and
engineers. The four projects will be selected to be sent to the near
space environment of the stratosphere (nearly 100,000 feet) by a NASA
weather balloon, scheduled to be launched in May.
For more information, visit
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/balloonsat/
A GLIMPSE INTO THE INTERIOR OF MARS
NASA's Mars exploration rover Opportunity is allowing scientists to
get a glimpse deep inside Mars.
Perched on a rippled Martian plain, a dark rock not much bigger than a
basketball was the target of interest for Opportunity during the past
two months. Dubbed "Marquette Island," the rock is providing a better
understanding of the mineral and chemical makeup of the Martian
interior.
For the entire story, go to
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/news/mer20100121.html
FEEDBACK
Ideas, comments and Web sites of interest to other teachers should be
sent to Irene Svete, newsletter editor, at
isvete@u.washington.edu
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