Free Education Webinars From NASA Educator Professional Development

Written by Nathan Smith on March 5, 2015. Posted in STEM and STEAM.

NASA Educator Professional Development is presenting a series of free webinars open to all educators. Join NASA education specialists to learn about activities, lesson plans, educator guides and resources that bring NASA into your classroom. Pre-registration is not required for these webinars. Simply go to the link provided for each webinar approximately 15 minutes before the session begins. Sign in as a guest using your first and last names.

Spaced Out Sports
Audience: Pre-service, In-service, Home School and Informal Educators of Grades 5-8
Event Date: March 5, 2015, at 7 p.m. EST
“Spaced Out Sports” is a curriculum using a variety of sports clips filmed on Earth and on the International Space Station that will challenge your students to explore Newton’s Laws of Motion. Using a series of classroom activities and career videos, students will discover how Newton’s Laws of Motion can be applied to any sport or physical activity.
https://connect.its.txstate.edu/stennisnasaepd/

Investigating Bone Cells and Gravity
Audience: Pre-service, In-service, Home School and Informal Educators of Grades K-5
Event Date: March 9, 2015, at 6 p.m. EDT
Experiment with a popular cereal and simple snack bags to explore an activity designed to help students identify the effects of decreased bone mass (osteoporosis) and describe why healthy bones are important in space and on Earth, while focusing on Common Core Literacy standards and 21st Century skills to effectively communicate the results of the investigations.
https://connect.its.txstate.edu/johnsonnasaepd/

Amusement Park Physics
Audience: Pre-service, In-service, Home School and Informal Educators of Grades 5-9
Event Date: March 10, 2015, at 7 p.m. EDT
In this webinar, participants will explore an overview of the NASA Amusement Park Physics educator guide. Topics addressed will include forces and motion, energy, simple harmonic motion and collisions. Particular attention will be paid to the in-class activities.
https://connect.its.txstate.edu/marshallnasaepd/

NASA Sports Spinoffs
Audience: Pre-service, In-service, Home School and Informal Educators of Grades 5-8
Event Date: March 11, 2015, at 7 p.m. EDT
Many technologies developed for space have found uses on Earth. Sunglasses, the computer mouse, magnetic resonance imaging, smoke detectors, quartz watches and bar codes are just a few of the 30,000 commercial applications of space technology that have entered the consumer market since the 1950s. This webinar will explore sports spinoffs (and other types as well) at NASA in addition to providing online resources and classroom activities for educators.
https://connect.its.txstate.edu/goddardnasaepd/

International Toys in Space
Audience: Pre-service, In-service, Home School and Informal Educators of Grades 3-8
Event Date: March 12, 2015, at 7 p.m. EDT
Would you like to see astronauts try to play basketball or soccer in space? Join the fun for these hands-on, minds-on physics lessons in space.
https://connect.its.txstate.edu/jplnasaepd/

Questions about this series of webinars should be directed to Steve Culivan at Stephen.p.culivan@nasa.gov.Free Education Webinars From NASA Educator Professional Development

Questions about this series of webinars should be directed to Steve Culivan at Stephen.p.culivan@nasa.gov.

Nathan Smith

Nathan Smith is Director of Technology for the College of Education and Human Services at Utah State University. In that role, he also directs The Adele & Dale Young Education Technology Center (The YETC) located in room 170 of the Education Building on Utah State University's Logan campus. The YETC is a combination student openaccess computer facility, a K12 curriculum materials library, a NASA Educator Resource Center for Utah, and a technology training center. Nathan served eight years (20042012) on the Board of Directors for the Utah Coalition for Education Technology (UCET) He was reelected in 2014 to serve another two year term on the board. A former elementary school teacher, Nathan has taught students every age from young children to senior citizens. He has had the opportunity beginning in 2011 to train international high school teachers from all over the world about technology in education, through the U.S. State