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Tag Archives: stem education
Outreach Visits for Clark Planetarium
Now that the 2023-24 school year is drawing to a close, it is time to look back at the outreach visits to schools I’ve done as part of my job at Clark Planetarium. I am a full-time Education Program Specialist, … Continue reading
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Tagged astronomy, clark planetarium, education, highway 89, informal STEM education, kinesthetic learning, kingston canyon utah, outreach visits, science, solar system model, solar-system, space science education, stem education, teaching, utah schools, utah seed standards, zion canyon
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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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Arrakeen Colony, Mars
During our fall 2016 semester at American Academy of Innovation, we selected Mars Exploration as the theme of our first school-wide project. To prepare my classes and get students excited, I involved them in creating several projects related to … Continue reading
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Tagged american academy of innovation, arrakeen, engineering through art, junk sculpture, living on mars, mars colony, mars exploration, materials science education, modeling in science, names for mars, project based learning, steam education, steam projects, stem education, visualizing the future
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Students as Teachers
One of the cornerstones of my education philosophy is that students learn best when they are expected to teach concepts to others. I’ve talked about this at some length on my other blog site at: https://elementsunearthed.com/2011/03/01/second-round-of-chemistry-demostrations/. It is based on the … Continue reading
Preparations for SOFIA
Next week I will be in Palmdale, California getting ready to fly aboard SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy. I am working with Carolyn Bushman, who teaches math and other classes at Wendover Jr./Sr. High School in Wendover, Utah. … Continue reading
The Spaced-Out Classroom 