Overview

    Educators look for innovative ways to keep their teaching fresh. Rest assured that you have friends in high places who want to help! Use insights from NASA scientists, engineers and astronauts, along with in-orbit imagery, to support what you are teaching. Click on the links below to learn more.

Educators

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    Airborne Research Experience for Educators

    How do you plan to spend your summer vacation? Forget tropical islands and international destinations … NASA offers the perfect package of adventure and career development. Earn graduate level credits while spending six weeks in California as part of a residential science research program that includes flying on a NASA aircraft.

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    Education Payload Operations

    NASA recognizes that educators always look for new ways to spark student curiosity. Class is in session on the International Space Station! Education Payload Operations and Activities provide you with teaching tools that bring science, technology, engineering and mathematics studies alive.

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    Network of Educator Astronaut Teachers

    What do you do with a group of highly qualified, extremely motivated educators who, in 2004, applied to be astronauts? NASA’s answer was to form a team of leaders, the Network of Educator Astronaut Teachers, and provide them with NASA-unique experiences and resources that enable the teachers to make an even bigger impact on their schools and communities.

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    Rocketry Workshops

    Ignite tomorrow's innovators! Get the tools and resources you need to teach your students about rocketry at NASA's no-cost rocketry workshops for educators.