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Understanding and Protecting Our Home Planet Discovery and New Frontiers DiscoveryNASA’s Program Discovery Overview and Programs Overview New Frontiers Programs September 2007 NSTA – March 2010 Shari Asplund Discovery and New Frontiers Programs Shari Asplund Education andShari Public Asplund Outreach Manager Discovery and New FrontiersDiscovery Programs and New Frontiers Programs Education and Public OutreachEducation Manager and Public Outreach Manager 1 http://discovery.nasa.gov/art/ The Thrill of Discovery Educator Workshop March 19, 2011 Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Johnson Space Center | Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory |Jackson School Observatory 150 educators gathered at 4 sites around the U.S. to celebrate NASA’s Year of the Solar System and learn about the significant events taking place in 2011 with Discovery and New Frontiers missions: EPOXI, Stardust-NExT, MESSENGER, Dawn, Juno and GRAIL • Connected through the NASA Digital Learning Network, participants at all sites, plus 242 watching the webinar on the Internet, heard presentations featuring current mission science from MESSENGER Principal Investigator Dr. Sean Solomon, Dawn Chief Engineer Dr. Marc Rayman and Juno gravity science team member Ravit Helled. • Each site offered break-out sessions with a variety of mission-developed educational activities for all grade levels, and everyone received a large resource guide loaded with activities, DVDs, web links and more. “I thought the workshop was the best I've attended since I became a ‘JPL “The Thrill of Discovery workshop was exceptional. There groupie’ - a very solid combination of content knowledge and classroom is lots of information in the workbook that I can use.” 3 application ideas. I look forward to more great things in the future!” “A Vision of Discovery” Educator Workshop March 10, 2012 Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Johnson Space Center | Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory | Oregon Museum of Science and Industry 120 K-12 educators gathered at four sites to experience Art & the Cosmic Connection - Science Inspiring Art A collaboration of the Discovery and New Frontiers Programs with the Dawn, MESSENGER and New Horizons missions, the workshop featured scientists Bonnie Buratti, Nancy Chabot and Ralph McNutt presenting the latest updates from the three missions and amazing images from asteroid Vesta and Mercury. Planetary artist and educator Monica Aiello led a captivating session on using elements of art to engage students in analyzing and understanding NASA images from space. Dawn and MESSENGER educators demonstrated additional art activities focusing on images: Mosaic Postcards from Mercury and Visualizing Vesta. The live webinar attracted 240 viewers. 4 Challenge of Discovery Educator Workshop April 6, 2013 Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Johnson Space Center | Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory | University of Arizona One Workshop, Four Sites and On the Web! In the Discovery and New Frontiers Programs’ third annual professional development workshop, aimed at both classroom and out-of-school time STEM educators, 142 workshop participants explored science as a human endeavor modeled by NASA missions while learning how to bring scientific discourse to their classroom. In addition to on-site activities, the workshop showcased NASA Discovery/New Frontiers Program mission scientists, engineers, and mission operators, each addressing different aspects of space exploration, from concept to execution: You want to go WHERE? OSIRIS-REx…asteroid sample return in 2023: Cat Merrill, Bashar Rizk, Ellyne Kinney Spano You Want to Get WHAT? Stardust and OSIRIS-Rex…sample return planning: Karen McNamara and Keiko Nakamura-Messenger Are We There Yet? New Horizons…still zooming to Pluto for 2015 flyby: Ralph McNutt Wish You Were Here! MESSENGER…orbiting Mercury since 2011: Nancy Chabot and Alice Berman More than 97% of participants rated quality of the overall session and materials and resources as good to very good (highest rating) 5 The Scale of Discovery Educator Workshop April 26, 2014 Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Johnson Space Center | Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory | Montana State University Distance Time Size Watch the archived presentations from Thrill/Vision/Challenge of Discovery workshops under Multimedia on the Discovery website 6 NASA at the San Diego Festival of Science and Engineering Discovery and New Frontiers Programs E/PO coordinated a large NASA exhibit area at the San Diego Festival of Science and Engineering’s Expo Day at Petco Park in 2012 and 2013, bringing a great NASA experience to thousands of kids and their families. The NASA area featured displays and activities from D/NF, Dawn, Kepler, Juno, GAVRT, Stardust-NeXT, MESSENGER and Mars plus Sun viewing solar telescopes. Students from the local area put on out-of-this world performances of “Space School Musical” before cheering audiences of more than 1,000. Contact me if to participate next year - March 22, 2014 7 .
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