Matthew Pearce

  GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) Educator Training at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the Intrepid Museum of Sea Air and Space

October 16, 2014 – 5:02 PM CDT

The Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Queens College have partnered to provide teachers with a FREE 3 day STEM training on November 14th, 15th and 16th that will provide teachers and schools with GLOBE certification. If you are the first teacher from your school to be certified in GLOBE you will receive a bundle of science instruments and equipment worth $600.00, courtesy Con Edison. 

Day one will be held at the offices of NASA-Goddard…

Matthew Pearce

  BEST (Beginning Engineering Science and Technology) Educator Training at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies & Intrepid Museum of Sea Air and Space

October 16, 2014 – 4:56 PM CDT

NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum have partnered to provide educators a Free STEM workshop that will train educators to implement the BEST (Beginning Engineering, Science and Technology) curriculum into their classrooms and educational programs. Participants will receive a Free BEST lab materials kit and training from Intrepid’s STEM education programs. BEST meets many of the standards associated with the Common Core Standards, Next…

Calling all educators! Are you looking for ideas to create new and exciting programs for your audiences? Celestial events (eclipses, meteor showers, etc.) are seen frequently from Earth while, in this age of planetary exploration, NASA spacecraft are often reaching important mission milestones. Use these celestial events and NASA mission milestones as unique opportunities to engage your audiences in solar system science and exploration! The Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, TX…

Solar Week – Oct 27-31st – is a lively week of online activies, games and curriculum about the Sun for grades 5-9. Interact with leading solar scientists and ask your questions about the Sun-Earth connection.

http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/663703main_flighttest1_fs_051812.pdf

http://rosetta.jpl.nasa.gov

Magnitude 6 at peak brightness

Magnitude 6 at peak brightness

Magnitude 6 at peak brightness.

Magnitude 5 at peak brightness

For the general public, teachers and students.

For the general public, teachers and students.

For the general public, teachers and students.

For the general public, teachers and students.

This will be a spectacular event with all states in the U.S. experiencing at least a partial eclipse. The path of totality crosses a number of large cities (including Salem OR, Casper WY, Kansas City MO, St Louis MO, Nashville, TN, Columbia SC, and Charleston SC), several national parks (Craters of the Moon, Grand Teton, Great Smokey Mountains, Conagree), and numerous state parks.

Maps from http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov

Most of the US will see at least part of the total lunar eclipse the morning of October 8, and again many will see at least part of the partial eclipse of October 23.  I've posted my lunar and solar eclipse FAQ's (along with links to tons of other eclipse images) at my eclipse page: 

!http://space.rice.edu/eclipse

The lunar and solar FAQ's can also be downloaded as pdfs.  Feel free to share!

This eclipse will be observed in Hawaii and Alaska on the afternoon of March 8. Western Alaska and the main Hawaiian islands will experience a partial solar eclipse. The path of totality will pass through the region of the Northwest Hawaiian Islands between the Pearl and Hermes Atoll and Lisianski Island.

Map from eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov

For the general public, teachers and students.

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/LEplot/LEplot2001/LE2015Apr04T.pdf

Like the Oct 8 2014 eclipse, all of the contiguous U.S. will experience the partial phases before totality. The east coast will witness the Moon setting during totality. Observers further west will see all of totality and, progressing westward the partial phases following totality. Totality for this eclipse will be of very short duration, less than five minutes.

For the general public, teachers and students. Visble in Norway.

http://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar

For the general public, teachers and students. Visble in the southern tip of Africa.

http://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar

For the general public, teachers and students.

For the general public, teachers and students.

For the general public, teachers, and students.
 

For the general public, teachers and students.

For the general public, teachers and students.