Whitney Cobb

After over twenty years as a teacher and administrator in K-12 and OST programs, I joined McREL's Education and Public Outreach team in 2008.  I am the lead for McREL's EPO work for NASA's Discovery and New Frontiers programs, the Dawn mission, comet missions Stardust-NExT and EPOXI, and most recently our Planet SEPOF work. My projects have included a variety of development grants for the National Science Foundation and US Department of Education Institute of Educational Studies (IES). Among other roles, I develop and pilot PD models integrating standards, research and evaluation; write curriculum and evolve new delivery platforms for diverse formal and informal audiences; am the social media voice for Dawn and write all its web content; and manage all the nuts and bolts of this good work.

• Early Childhood
• Educators
• Elementary
• Families
• General Public
• High School
• Informal
• Middle School
• SMD E/PO Community
• Students
• Underserved / Underrepresented

• Best Practices
• Citizen Science
• Community of Practice
• Curriculum
• Education Research
• Educational Technology
• Evaluation
• Formal Education (K-12)
• Informal Education
• Outreach
• Professional Development
• Scientist Engagement
• Social Media

Edit and manage the Dawn Blog: http://dawnblog.jpl.nasa.gov/

Cobb, W.H., Aiello, M., Macdonald, R., Asplund, S. Art and the Cosmic Connection: Patterns and the NGSS. (2014 TBD). Science and Children. NSTA Press.

A Year of Inquiry: A Collection for Elementary Educators NSTA Press. October 15, 2012, Chapter 22: Inquiry into the Heart of a Comet