NASA-Goddard Education Programs as of January 2002
(Derived from http://ehb2.gsfc.nasa.gov/edcats/2000/nep/programs/search.html)
- Ambassadors
- Goddard Space Flight Center
The GSFC Ambassador Program addresses
NASA's Education Vision to promote excellence in America's education system
through enhancing and expanding scientific and technological competence and
literacy.
- Chem
Matters - Goddard Space Flight Center
In a collaboration between NASA
GSFC EOS-Aura personnel and the American Chemical Society, four issues of the
high school publication "Chem Matters" will be devoted to the science and
engineering of EOS-Aura.
- CSLP-SAMPEX
- Goddard Space Flight Center
Solar Anomalous and Magnetospheric
Particle Explorer (SAMPEX) scientists and engineers at NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center support high school teams through the Cooperative Satellite
Learning Project that involves high school students in the process of
developing and operating SAMPEX that will demonstrate how NASA implements a
specific mission and introduces students to careers in space.
- CSLP/ACE
- Goddard Space Flight Center
ACE sponsored students who participated
in the Cooperative Learning Satellite Program to motivate students in the K-12
community into science, engineering, math and careers in the space business,
through the integration and application of technical disciplines into the
complex system of ground and space based segments composing the end-to-end
mission system.
- Eclipse
2001 - Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA's Sun-Earth Connection
Education Forum (SECEF), a partnership between UC Berkeley Space Sciences
Laboratory and NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, coordinated the Eclipse 2001
webcast event as a national program for broad audiences.
- Exploring
Technology with Satellite Imagery - Goddard Space Flight Center
*
Course develops interest and aptitude in science and technology using live
(realtime) satellite image data * Student-conducted; teacher-facilitated *
Activities adjusted for grades 6-12 and beyond * Develop marketable technical
literacy skills * Some schools already offer this for credit in a technology
education curriculum.
- Girl
Scout Support - Goddard Space Flight Center
The Sun Earth Connection
Education Forum and the SEC mission scientists support local and regional Girl
Scout Expos and multiple troop events, through exhibits, distribution of
products, lectures, demonstrations, and hands on activities.
- GLOBE
- Goddard Space Flight Center
Global Learning and Observations to
Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) is a worldwide network of students, teachers,
and scientists working together to study and understand the global
environment.
- HESSI
@CALday - Goddard Space Flight Center
High Energy Solar Spectroscopic
Imager (HESSI) scientists share the Sun Earth Connection science at Space
Sciences information exhibits that are setup on college campuses, NASA Centers
and community gaterings.
- ICP
- Goddard Space Flight Center
Goddard Institute for Space Studies'
Outreach Program, the Institute on Climate and Planets,involves students and
educators from junior high to graduate school in earth and space science
research along side scientists.
- IMAGE
Public Lectures - Goddard Space Flight Center
Imager for
Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) scientists and E&PO
staff are invited to give public lectures about space science and astronomy to
planetaria, museums, science centers and a variety of other public venues.
- IMAGE
Teacher Workshops - Goddard Space Flight Center
Since 1996, the Imager
for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE), education and public
outreach program (POETRY)scientists and education specialists train teachers
to use its classroom activities and other products, in support of programs and
conferences with NSTA, NCTM and the Goddard Space Flight Center.
- IMAGE
E&PO on WWW - Goddard Space Flight Center
The Imager for
Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE), education and public
outreach program supports web-based dissemination of space science
information, classroom activities, and public education through its 'POETRY'
web site at http://image.
- LTI
- Goddard Space Flight Center
LTI allows local entities to interact
with Goddard Space Flight Center Education Office using local technologies
such as cable, closed circuit TV, Picture TEL, and others.
- Maine
DOE ASA Systemic Initiative - Goddard Space Flight Center
The Maine DOE
ASA Systemic Initiative is a coordinated effort between the Maine Math and
Science Alliance and Maine Department of Education to use the NASA missions,
facilities, human resources, and programs to support the enhancement of
knowledge and skills in the Earth/Space Sciences for the purpose of
implementing the Maine State Frameworks in Math and Science.
- Media
Specialists In-Service - Goddard Space Flight Center
The Media
Specialists for Grades K-12, Anne Arundel County Public Schools, attended a
half-day in-service involving the identification of resources and services
available via Goddard Space Flight Center Library/Media services, Educator
Resource Center,Space Sciences Resource Directory and SEM Program/project
guidelines for school initiatives.
- Mentee/Mentor
- Goddard Space Flight Center
Students over 16 years of age work with a
scientist or an engineer during the school day, for a period of time
determined by the school or during the summer for a minimum of 3 weeks.
- MGDS
- Goddard Space Flight Center
The Mathematics of the Dismal Swamp
Project supports a team of professors from ECSU to use research on The Great
Dismal Swamp Project as a platform for development of mathematics education
lessons that incorporate a generic wetlands application.
- NASA
Academy - Goddard Space Flight Center
The NASA Academy is a new
educational program at the university level for developing space leaders at
Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, Ames Research Center,
Moffett Field, CA, and Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.
- NIAC
- Goddard Space Flight Center
The Universities Space Research
Association (USRA) is operating the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts
(NIAC) through a contract from NASA Headquarters issued from the NASA Goddard
Space Flight Center.
- NOVA-ESS
- Goddard Space Flight Center
The NOVA Network led by the University of
Idaho, University of Alabama, and Kansas State University are working to
implement, disseminate, evaluate the Online ESSEA courses.
- NOVA
- Goddard Space Flight Center
NOVA was created to develop and
disseminate a national framework for enhancing science, mathematics and
technology literacy for preservice teachers in the 21st century.
- NYC-SSRA
- Goddard Space Flight Center
The New York City Space Science Research
Alliance is a collaboration in both space science research and in the offering
of a space science BS degree program in the City University of New York
(CUNY).
- OSS
Product Review Workshop - Goddard Space Flight Center
Upon completion
of the OSS Product Review those Educational Products that are reviewed as
needing no revisions and should be distributed through teacher workshops are
demonstrated by the scientist and/or educator who developed the product during
a workshop for selected ERCs and AESP as well as the Broker/Facilitators.
- PENSyL
Visit - Goddard Space Flight Center
This program is in support of an
informal collaboration between the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Education
Office, the Pennsylvania Department of Education, and the Eisenhower Access
Centers through the Pennsylvania State Consortium Team and Research for Better
Schools.
- PENSyL
Workshop - Goddard Space Flight Center
This program is in support of an
informal collaboration between the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Education
Office, the Pennsylvania Department of Education, and the Eisenhower Access
Centers through the Pennsylvania State Consortium Team and Research for Better
Schools.
- Radio
JOVE - Goddard Space Flight Center
The Radio JOVE project acquaints
students with radio astronomy,providing opportunities for more than 300 teams
of students and interested individuals around the world from middle school
level through adult to build radio telescopes from inexpensive kits to study
Jupiter, the Sun, and the galaxy.
- SECEF
- Goddard Space Flight Center
The Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum
is a part of the NASA Office of Space Science education program which is
designed to foster education and public outreach on a national level.
- SECEF
Educator Interns - Goddard Space Flight Center
Sun Earth connection
mission scientists and the Sun Earth Connection Education Forum educational
specialists at NASA goddard Space Flight Center,during a 6-10 week summer
internship, provide a partnership opportunity for educators to gain new
knowledge through SEC mission discoveries, resulting in educational products
that contain the cutting edge science.
- SISTER
- Goddard Space Flight Center
The SISTER program is a five day,
non-residential institute designed to increase awareness of and provide an
opportunity for female students entering the eight grade to be exposed to and
explore career fields in Math, Science, and Technology with NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center (GSFC) women engineers, mathematicians,scientists,technicians,
and researchers.
- SISTER
- Goddard Space Flight Center
The SISTER program is designed to
increase awareness of and provide an opportunity for female middle school
students to be exposed to and explore nontraditional career fields with NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) women engineers, mathematicians,
scientists, technicians and researchers.
- SOHO
Outreach Activities by the UVCS Group - Goddard Space Flight
Center
Members of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)-Ultra
Violet Corono-graph Spectrometer team are active in a number of outreach
activities featuring a full-scale UVCS instrument with three "stations"
showing the SOHO highlights video, near real-time solar images, SOHO
presentations, and participation of UVCS scientists in public events hosted by
schools and the Boston Museum of Science.
- Space
Weather Center Exhibit - Goddard Space Flight Center
The Space Weather
Center exhibit was developed through a partnership between NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center Sun-Earth Connection missions, the Space Science Institute, and
the NASA OSS Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum, having debuted at the
Denver Museum of Natural History in March of 2000 and has traveled to the
Discovery Museum in Sacramento,Maryland Science Center, Goddard Visitors
Center, Lawrence Hall of Science, and Adler Planetarium.
- StarShine
- Goddard Space Flight Center
Students who participated in polishing
one of the mirrors on the satellite visited the clean room at Goddard and
participated in a photoshoot for public relations.
- STEREO
Student Internships - Goddard Space Flight Center
STEREO mission
scientists at the Universities, NASA Centers and other scientific institutions
support students for internships, exposing the students to a variety of
professional experiences including software development, mechanical design,
lab simulations and testing.
- STP-SEC
EF Sponsored Events - Goddard Space Flight Center
The Solar Teresstrial
Probe Program Office (STP) Program Office supported Sun-Earth Connection
Education Forum (SECEF)Sun-Earth Day and Solar Eclipse Day activites through
product development and dissemination, public appearances, program development
and hands-on workshops at various schools and NASA/GSFC.
- STP-SMET
Workshops - Goddard Space Flight Center
Solar Teresstrial Probe Program
Office (STP) Educational workshops are conducted at various NASA Centers and
minority universities,such as the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez,to
emphasize and promote professional growth through the adoption of inquiry
based teaching methods aligned with local and national standards for Science,
Math, Engineering and Technology.
- STP
Internships for Teachers - Goddard Space Flight Center
Teacher
Internships sponsored by the Solar Terrestrial Probe Program office and
conducted by scientists Involved in the STEREO mission at Naval Research
Laboratory provided professional growth opportunities for educators as well as
development of products for curriculum enhancement and community programs for
planetariums, museums and science centers.
- STP
K-12 Program Development - Goddard Space Flight Center
As part of the
overall Solar Teresstrial Probe Program Office (STP) Program Office EPO
effort, the K-12 Educational Program Development provides partnerships with
STP scientists and EPO personnel to develop inquiry based activities and
lessons with a cross-disciplinary approach to education.
- SUNBEAMS
- Goddard Space Flight Center
SUNBEAMS is an exciting and successful
educational partnership between NASA Goddard Space Flight Center(GSFC)and the
District of Columbia Public School System (DCPS).
- Teacher
Internship - Goddard Space Flight Center
LWS E/PO is creating a network
of teachers leaders to promote science, math and technology in our American
schools and pre-service teachers programs as well as enhancing teachers
professional development.
- Technology
Standards Workshop - Goddard Space Flight Center
The purpose of the
Technology for All Americans Project (TfAAP), funded by the National Science
Foundation (NSF) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
is to promote technological literarcy for all students by defining the
intellectual domain of technology, advancing the study of technology, and
creating standards.
- YBTS
- Goddard Space Flight Center
The You Be The Scientist Program with
Satellite Imagery is for student enrichment for 6 targeted middle schools
located in the EZ/EC Communities of Portsmouth, VA, & Halifax, NC.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration