ASU Mars Educator Conferences
The next rover - Curiosity is on the way to Mars and lands on the Red Planet on August 5, 2012. Join us for an awesome day that will focus on robotics, rovers and new NASA technology-related activities that will help you gain insight into how to incorporate science, engineering, more critical thinking and problem solving into your classroom activities. NASA scientists and engineers will highlight the latest on the exploration of Mars. NASA education professional will facilitate hands-on sessions that will focus on how to bring more STEM-based learning to your classroom.
NASA is preparing to launch the Mars Rover named Curiosity! Join us for a potential launch viewing, Friday morning, November 25, 2011, followed by an educator conference filled with Standards-aligned, STEM-related hands-on activities, mission team speakers, a tour of Kennedy Space Center, and image-rich classroom and other learning materials to take home.
How Science Really Works… How to Teach the Nature of Science
Come to a NASA-sponsored special Professional Development Conference for educators to learn how science really works from the real NASA space explorers. You will increase your content knowledge in science. You will learn how to teach space topics within your curriculum while engaging your students and moving them towards more complex STEM learning and higher critical thinking.
Spend a day in exciting, hands-on sessions that showcase Standards-aligned resources. Engage and equip your students with 21st century skills that will move them toward the jobs of the future! Also, you'll learn about unique upcoming NASA opportunities.
Keynote talks gave updates on current (Steven Ruff) and future missions to Mars (Philip Christensen) and on Be A Martian, JPL's Mars public involvement website (Sheri Klug Boonstra). Hands-on activities included Imagine Mars, using JMARS in the Mars Student Imaging Project (MSIP), robotics, and science and literacy.
Keynote talks included the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission (Sarah Braden), updates on the latest results from Mars mission (Philip Christensen), and Roots of Exploration (James Rice). Hands-on activities included Blue Marble Matches, Seeing the Invisible (mineral identification), and Touchdown!, a lunar exploration guide.
Keynote talks inlcuded Astrobiology (Ariel Anbar) and Mars-habitable enviromnents (Philip Christensen). Hands-on activities included Life on Earth...and Elsewhere, Building a Mars Surface, Why Is Mars Red?, and the Mars Public Mapping Project.
