NASA+Resources+and+Opportunities



== New NASA eClipsTM Videos Available NASA eClipsTM has rolled out three new videos to captivate your students’ minds and inspire their imaginations. This month NASA eClipsTM presents: -- Our World: [ http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/nasaeclips/search.html?terms=%22What%20is%20the%20Solar%20System%22&category=1000&disp=grid ]== ==What is the Solar System? (grades K-5) -- Real World: [ http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/nasaeclips/search.html?terms=%22Centripetal%20Force%22&category=1110&disp=grid ]Centripetal Force (grades 6-8)  -- Launchpad: [ http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/nasaeclips/search.html?terms=%22Launchpad%3A%20Astrobiology%22&category=0010&disp=grid ]Astrobiology (grades 9-12)  Our World has a new educator’s guide available online. [ http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/nasaeclips/toolbox/guides.html ]Shower Clock allows students to think and act like engineers and scientists as they follow the five steps of the Design Process to complete a team challenge successfully. Within this work, students design, measure, build, test and re-design a shower clock. Once the shower clock is built, students discuss ways to conserve and recycle water. To learn more about NASA eClipsTM, such as how the program can benefit your classroom, visit [ http://www.nasa.gov/nasaeclips ]NASA eClipsTM on the Web. Follow NASA eClipsä on [ http://www.facebook.com/pages/NASA-eClips/171829429505534?ref=ts ]Facebook and [ http://twitter.com/NASA_eClips ]Twitter.==


 * Google Online Science Fair **

On the 11 January 2011 Google is launching the inaugural Google Science Fair. We have partnered with NASA, CERN, National Geographic, Scientific American and the LEGO Group to create a new STEM competition which is more open, accessible and global than ever before. We wanted to reach out to educators prior to launch to let them know “the Google Science Fair is coming” and to extend an invitation to schools and teachers to get involved early in what we hope will be a large global initiative.

The Google Science Fair is a global competition that any student aged 13 - 18 from around the world is eligible to enter. Students can enter as individuals or teams of up to 3. There is no entry fee and registration and submission will happen online. The deadline for submissions will be the 4 April 2011. The Science Fair will culminate in a “once in a life time” celebratory event at Google headquarters in California in July 2011 where finalists will compete for internships, scholarships and prizes in front of a panel of celebrity scientist judges including Nobel Laureates and household names.

We want to celebrate and champion great young scientific talent and give students from around the world the opportunity to compete for amazing experiences, prizes, scholarships and internships.

We hope you are as excited about this upcoming competition as we are are! To sign up for fun and free resource kits for your classroom or school (Google bookmarks, stickers, posters and more!) please visit the Global Science Fair: google.com/sciencefair http://topweb.arc.nasa.gov/sendstudio/link.php?M=11448&n=103&l=61&f=H

Please send questions to sciencefair@google.com


 * New Educational Materials Available at NASA.gov **

The Educational Materials section of NASA's Web site offers classroom activities, educator guides, posters and other types of resources that are available for use in the classroom. Materials are listed by type, grade level and subject. The following items are now available for downloading.

Women in STEM High School Aerospace Scholars Flier -- Grades 9-11

WISH wants female high school juniors to participate in a pilot project. Beginning with an online collaboration in fall 2010, selected applicants will compete to participate in a summer 2011 workshop at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. There they will work alongside female NASA engineers and interns and collaborate in hands-on activities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The WISH Flier explains how to apply.

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/WISH_Flier.html

Human Exploration Project Series -- Grades K-12

This series of curricular units focus on themes that NASA engineers and scientists -- as well as future generations of explorers -- must consider when planning future human explorations into space. This includes such themes as Energy and Power, Transportation and Lunar Plant Growth Chambers (the STS-118 Design Challenges). http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/HEP_Engineering.html

International Space Station EarthKAM Winter 2011 Mission

Middle school educators are invited to join NASA for the International Space Station EarthKAM Winter 2011 Mission from Jan. 18-21, 2011. Find out more about this exciting opportunity that allows students to take pictures of Earth from a digital camera aboard the International Space Station.

International Space Station EarthKAM is a NASA-sponsored project that provides stunning, high-quality photographs of Earth taken from the space shuttle and the space station. Since 1996, EarthKAM students have taken thousands of photographs of Earth by using the World Wide Web to direct a digital camera on select spaceflights and, currently, on the space station.

For more information about the project and to register for the upcoming mission, visit the EarthKAM home page http://www.EarthKAM.ucsd.edu http://www.EarthKAM.ucsd.edu

If you have questions about the EarthKAM project, please e-mail ek-help@earthkam.ucsd.edu.