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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
Presenting at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
An Exemplary Teacher I have been blessed by learning from some of the best teachers in Utah, both as a student and as a colleague. The best teacher of all was J. Fay Jacobsen, a science and math teacher at … Continue reading
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Tagged cajun crawdads, christine shupla, communication in science, ferrari cars, galveston bay, inquiry education, j. fay jacobsen, jezero crater, la porte texas, lpsc, lunar and planetary institute, lunar and planetary science conference, mars 2020 rover, mars exploration, mars landing site, matt golombek, mentor teachers, moon rocks, science education, scientific method, scientific posters, students as scientists
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A Poster at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
As our school-wide Mars Exploration project got underway at American Academy of Innovation, I wanted to give the team leaders an opportunity to share what they were doing with a larger audience and meet the people who are actually planning … Continue reading
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Tagged ben bussey, cis-lunar habitat, communication in science, jim green, lpsc, lunar and planetary science conference, mars exploration, nasa, nasa budget, pbl, planetary science, project based learning, science education, science posters, scientific conferences, scientific method, solar system exploration, students as scientists
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Launching the Mars Project
With our first semester seminars done in the middle of January 2017, the students were as ready as they could be to start our school-wide Mars Exploration project at American Academy of Innovation. Whether or not the teachers were ready … Continue reading
Mars Seminars: Preparing for a School-wide PBL
In my previous three posts, I’ve talked about how my students at American Academy of Innovation created an animation of a space habitat for astronauts to live in on their way to Mars, how they learned to use Mars MOLA … Continue reading
