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Dropping the Moon
Teacher Innovator Institute Day 4: Thursday, July 18, 2019 On Thursday, July 18, 2019 we were in two locations on the National Mall for our Teacher Innovator Institute. We started in the Museum of Natural History and ended in the … Continue reading
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Tagged allende meteorite, ann hodges, chelyabinsk meteorite, chinatown, hope diamond, lunar meteorite, martian meteorite, megalodon, national museum of american history, national museum of natural history, peekskill meteorite, smithsonian learning lab, sylacauga meteorite
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At the Udvar-Hazy Center
Teacher Innovator Institute Day 3: Wed., July 17, 2019 On our third full day of the Teacher Innovator Institute we were at the National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center again near Dulles International Airport. We spent the … Continue reading
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Tagged air and space museum, b-24 bomber, colonel charles mcgee, driving question, engineering design challenge, flak bait, geodesic dome, loudoun county schools, mars pathfinder, project based learning, sojourner rover, space shuttle discovery, steam activities, teacher innovator institute, tuskegee airmen, udvar-hazy center, world war ii veterans
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I Spy With My Little Eye
Day Two of the Teacher Innovator Institute; July 16, 2019 On this, the second full day of our Institute, we were in and around the National Mall in the new International Spy Museum and the National Museum of Natural History. … Continue reading
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Tagged air and space museum, aston martin, banded iron, emerald, informal science education, international spy museum, james bond car, mata hari, millard county utah, minerals, national museum of natural history, nuking the moon, oxygenation event, phoebe waterman haas observatory, sapphire, shergotty meteorite, trilobite, u2 spy plane, vince houghton
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Teacher Innovator Institute
Monday, July 15, 2019 This was our first official day of the Teacher Innovator Institute in Washington, D.C. sponsored by the National Air and Space Museum. It was held at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA, which is … Continue reading
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Tagged apollo 11 50th anniversary, apollo 15, astronauts, close encounters of the third kind, education innovation, educator professional development, egg drop challenge, ellen stofan, jim irwin, lunar receiving lab, milestones of flight, mother ship, national air and space museum, space shuttle discovery, sr-71 blackbird, stem education, steven f. udvar-hazy center, teacher innovator institute
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A Cruise of Cohorts
Our second day of the Teacher Innovator Institute (TII) in Washington, D.C was a Sunday and a chance to get acclimated and become acquainted with each other before the actual workshop begins. I walked to the National Cathedral and attended … Continue reading
On a New Adventure
I have been extremely fortunate as a STEAM teacher to experience a number of fun adventures despite being a rather ordinary person. This hasn’t been because of any remarkable talent or skill unless you count dogged persistence as a talent. … Continue reading
A Constellation in a Box
Several weeks ago I wrote up a lesson plan as part of a contest sponsored by ORISE, the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education. Winners of the contest would receive an all-expenses paid trip to the National Science Teachers … Continue reading
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Tagged 3d models of stars, astronomy education, classes of stars, constellation, declination, earth science lessons, light years, middle school astronomy, modeling, modeling constellations, ngss standards, parallax, right ascension, scale and proportion, spectral types, stars, steam education, stellar types, teaching about the stars
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Farewell to Opportunity
NASA announced last week that the Opportunity Mars Exploration Rover has been declared dead after over 14 years of operation. When a global dust storm enshrouded Mars last year, the rover probably became so covered with dust that its solar … Continue reading
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Tagged announcement of opportunity, deep space network, environmental test lab, how to build a space probe, in-situ instruments lab, jet propulsion laboratory, jpl, lunar and planetary science conference, mars exploration rover, mars yard, martian dust storms, micro devices lab, multi mission image processing lab, nasa educator workshops, nasa explorer schools, nasa feasibility study, nasa field centers, newmast, opportunity mars rover, shake and bake, solar system exploration, space flight operations facility, space probe design, space probe development, spirit rover, von karman auditorium
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Evaluating the Mars Project at AAI
Our student teams made their final summative project presentations on April 28, 2017 to teacher judges during the day and to the public in the evening. I wrote about these presentations in my last post. In this post, I want … Continue reading
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Tagged american academy of innovation, buck institute of education, clark planetarium, formative assessment, gold standard pbl, mars education, mars exploration, project based learning, student centered, student projects, student voice and choice, summative assessment
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The Big Mars Day: Presenting our Final Projects
After our return from the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference we had about one more month to finish up our school-wide Mars Exploration projects. Thirteen teams had condensed down to eleven and were (for the most part) intently working towards … Continue reading
The Spaced-Out Classroom 