Energize your teaching with instructional strategies to integrate cutting-edge space science using real world applications!
Close-up of comet Wild 2's nucleus. Credit: NASA/JPL
Spectacular new NASA images arrive from space! What do you do?
Help your students pop NASA's newest mission imagery from Discovery Program missions to asteroids and comets into clear focus! In Small Bodies, Big Concepts, participants investigate dynamic space science content with engaging, hands-on activities. Inspired by NASA and Planetary Science Institute scientists, and utilizing McREL's Designing Effective Science Instruction, strategize ways to integrate visual analysis of NASA space imagery into your existing curricula. Unpack space science and engineering concepts while digging into strategies that support effective science teaching.
- 9 days: June 4 – June 14, 2012
- Will be held in central Tucson, location TBD
- 1 day – Winter of 2013, Date TBD
- Will be held at the Planetary Science Institute, 1700 East Fort Lowell, Tucon, AZ 85719
- 40 professional development hours from the Planetary Science Institute
- Option to purchase 4 hours graduate credit from Colorado School of Mines for $170
Complete an application and submit a letter of support from your principal by March 15, 2012. Electronic submission is welcome.
- Application (print and mail version) (Word) or Application (email version) (Word)
- Participant Information Letter (PDF)
- Principal Information Letter (PDF)
- Small Bodies, Big Concepts flyer (PDF)
- Mary Cullen at mcullen@mcrel.org (if mailing application, send to McREL, 4601 DTC Boulevard, Suite 500, Denver, CO 80237, Attn: Mary Cullen)
- Questions? Contact Whitney Cobb, 303-632-5572 or wcobb@mcrel.org
Small Bodies, Big Concepts professional development pilot test is presented by Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning in partnership with the Planetary Science Institute.
Small Bodies, Big Concepts is based upon work supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant/Contract/Agreement No. 09-EPOESS09-0044 issued through the Science Mission Directorate.