First Annual Summer Space Science Institute for High School Teacher-Student Teams
Sponsored by: Capacity Building Partnership for Education and Research in Space Science
North Carolina A&T State University
June 26-30, 2006.
K-12 Outreach programs and activities are the corner stone for improving
the quality of education, to enhance the breath and depth of knowledge,
functional literacy, as well as improve the science and mathematical skills
of incoming freshman students nationwide. Program developers for K-12
activities have collaborated to develop effective outreach activities that
initiate change of general behavior towards specific fields. Particularly,
such collaboration and exchange of ideas are vital in order to increase the
number of university students in Science, Technology, Engineering and
Mathematics (STEM). There are several important points to this institute.
It
will address several competencies of the National and the State Science
Content Standard.
It
will address the No Child Left Behind Act
It
will add now teaching and learning technologies for science.
Particularly, we will introduce the application of logger pro. The
logger pro is an experimental and data analysis platform that is used to
measure physical quantities such as kinematics and thermodynamics.
The
teachers will also acquire two CEUs
Teachers
will receive NASA educational packages
For Your information
March 29, 2006 Solar Eclipe
(African Solar Physics and Solar
Eclipse Symposium - March 29, 2006)
