NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NASA is committed to inspiring and informing students in classrooms around the world as they gear up for learning. NASA offers learners information in key areas such as science, technology, engineering and mathematics. These are professions that can take you from the depths of the ocean to the far reaches of outer space, from within the microscopic structures of the human cell to the top of the tallest skyscrapers. Join NASA TV during the week of August 15-21, 2005, as NASA showcases some of its award-winning videos that showcase "Gearing Up For Learning."

NASA TV Education Schedule
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This 'Extra' feature highlights educational products, activities, multimedia and Web sites related to this month's theme "Gearing Up For Learning."

Image to the right: From great ideas to useable products, NASA is gearing up for learning. Credit NASA

NASA Educational Products




Launch a Career in Engineering Bookmark (All Grades)
Use the resources on this NASA educational bookmark to access career information about the fields of engineering.
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Consider a Career in Aerospace (All Grades)
This NASA educational poster was developed to encourage young women to pursue careers in mathematics, science, engineering and technology. It also provides information and activities relating to past, present and future careers in aerospace.
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Exploring the Extreme (K-8)
This NASA educator guide presents the basic science of aeronautics by emphasizing hands-on involvement, prediction, data collections and interpretation, teamwork and problem solving.
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X1 Paper Glider Kit (5-12)
This cutout paper glider kit features the Bell X-1, the first supersonic aircraft, and offers a number of hands-on learning activities related to flight.
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757 Glider Kit (5-12)
In addition to information on NASA’s Boeing 757 research aircraft, this fact sheet offers a flyable paper cutout model airplane along with suggested hands-on learning activities.
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NASA Educational Multimedia Materials

The Central Operation of Resources for Educators (CORE) is the worldwide distribution center for NASA-produced multimedia materials. Education Modules for themes are bundled by topic and may include CD-ROMs, videotapes, educator guides, posters, lithographs, books, lesson plans, bookmarks, fact sheets, slide sets and activity kits.

Image to right: NASA develops multimedia resources for educators. Credit: NASA

Module Spotlight:
Science and Technology
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Careers
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Search words for CORE materials: engineering, robotics

CORE
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Follow the Theme - Activities, Adventures and Web Sites of Interest

FlyBy Math™ This program, geared toward middle school students, consists of six Air Traffic Control Problems. Each examines a different distance-rate-time air traffic scenario that an air traffic controller might encounter. + View site

Engineering Design Challenges Program The Engineering Design Challenges Program for middle and high school ages connects students in their classrooms with the challenges faced by NASA engineers as they design the next generation of space vehicles, habitats and technology. + View site

Shapes of Flight In this 30-minute video program, the NASA guest researcher will introduce students to the wind tunnel and the computer, two of the tools used by aeronautical engineers. The lesson and classroom experiment will involve students in observation and in measuring, organizing, comparing, and interpreting data. + View site

The Case of the Technical Knockout The tree house detectives go galactic with their latest project, creating travel brochures for our solar system. What do you pack for a weekend on Jupiter or a spring on Saturn? Find out as the tree house detectives explore life beyond the atmosphere in this 60-minute educational video. + View site

Make a Balloon-powered Nanorover! You can build a nanorover! Try this one, made from three Styrofoam® meat trays. + View site

GIRL: Girls in Robotics Learning This is a new effort to increase nationwide participation of female students in robotics learning and competition through a process of cultural promotion and attraction. + View site

FIRST Robotics Competition The FIRST Robotics Competition is an exciting, multinational competition that teams professionals and young people to solve an engineering design problem in an intense and competitive way. + View site

NASA Drop Tower Competition DIME is a NASA competition program for high school students which allow teams to design and build a technology or science experiment which will then be operated in a NASA microgravity drop tower facility. Winning teams travel to NASA to operate their experiment. + View site

Videos showcased in the August 2005 Education File Schedule to support "Gearing Up for Learning" are: Sines and Cosines Parts 1, 2 and 3, Polynomials, Explorer Generation Video, The Case of the Technical Knockout, The Case of the Powerful Pulleys, The Story of Pi, The Theorem of Pythagoras, The Tunnel of Samos, Similarity, Laws of Motion, Landscape Archeology: Hidden Treasures, Good Stress, Rocket to the Stars, Dancing in the Night Sky, Case of the Electrical Mystery, Case of the Wright Invention, Explorer Generation Video, The Story of Pi.
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Additional Resources

Robotics Curriculum Clearinghouse
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NASA Drop Tower Competition
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NASA's Odyssey of the Mind Web Site
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How does a CD work?
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Worldbook @ NASA: Robots
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Next Month's Theme: Blast Back to School

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