Free Education Webinars From NASA Educator Professional Development

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. Registration is required to participate. Simply click on the provided link to register.

NASA Is With You When You Fly: Winging It
Audience: Pre-service, In-service, Home School and Informal Educators of Grades PK-12
Event Date: April 30, 2015, at 7 p.m. EDT
Participants will learn about real-world connections between the classroom and airplanes that are flying today. “Winging It” will focus on axes and control surfaces using the Aeronautics Museum in the Box curriculum while also discussing the X-56A Multi-Utility Technology Testbed, an active research project at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California.
Register online to participate. https://www.etouches.com/124937

Rockets 2 Racecars: Session 3 — Solar Powered Racetrack
Audience: Pre-service, In-service, Home School and Informal Educators of Grades 3-8
Event Date: May 4, 2015, at 6:30 p.m. EDT
Participants will learn about solar energy and Earth’s energy budget activities to use in the classroom. Education specialists will show how to connect NASA solar and aerodynamic research and educational activities to the solar-powered Pocono Raceway Track in Pennsylvania.
Register online to participate. https://www.etouches.com/125282

Exploration Then and Now: Science and the Historical Perspective
Audience: Pre-service, In-service, Home School and Informal Educators of Grades 5-8
Event Date: May 5, 2015, at 5 p.m. EDT
Imagine being a settler of Jamestown in 1607 and trying to survive the harsh conditions of a new and unfamiliar world. Now, imagine being a space-faring explorer discovering new worlds and building settlements in extraterrestrial environments. How would these two experiences compare? If resources are limited, how would you make decisions about items you need and those you don’t need? Come explore travel through time and space to inhabit new worlds!
Register online to participate. https://www.etouches.com/125436

Space Math Series – Linking Science and Math
Audience: Pre-service, In-service, Home School and Informal Educators of Grades 5-8
Event Date: May 6, 2015, at 6 p.m. EDT
Space Mathematics is a two-part series designed to help educators make the critical linkage between Mathematics and Science in the classroom. In Part 1 — Linking Math and Science, participants will survey some of the available NASA resources and discuss the use of science as a vehicle for mathematics instruction.
Register online to participate. https://www.etouches.com/123978

Subject Matter Expert: Light and Technologies From Light
Audience: Pre-service, In-service, Home School and Informal Educators of Grades 4-12
Event Date: May 7, 2015, at 6:30 p.m. EDT
2015 is classified as “The International Year of Light.” To commemorate the occasion, Mike Nofziger, Ph.D., professor and outreach coordinator at the College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, will show us some of the applications of light technologies. Nofziger helped establish the undergraduate program in optical sciences and engineering at the university in 1989. As part of that effort, he developed lab experiments and wrote curricula for six semesters of undergraduate optics labs. He is the outreach coordinator for the college and has led a wide variety of optics outreach over the years.
Register online to participate. https://www.etouches.com/125844

For a full schedule of upcoming NASA Educator Professional Development webinars, visit http://www.txstate-epdc.net/events/.

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