Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Upcoming Workshops, Giveaway Days at the NASA/JPL Educator Resource Center

JPL/NASA News

This is a feature of the NASA/JPL Education Office                                          Oct. 29, 2013


Educator Workshop: Lunar and Meteorite Sample Certification Program

Date: Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Target Audience: This workshop is for credentialed teachers, teaching grades K-12 in a classroom setting

Location: NASA/JPL Educator Resource Center, Pomona, Calif.

Overview: NASA makes actual lunar samples from the historic Apollo missions available to lend to teachers. You must attend this certification workshop to bring the excitement of real lunar rocks and regolith samples to your students.

Please call 909-397-4420 to reserve your spot. For more information and directions, visit: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/education/index.cfm?page=115

*Note: The NASA/JPL Educator Resource Center will be hosting a giveaway day featuring numerous items from its Pomona, Calif., location immediately following this workshop. See below for more information.


Educator Workshop: Marsbound! Mission to the Red Planet

Date: Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013, 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Target audience: Educators for grades 4 and above

Location: NASA/JPL Educator Resource Center, Pomona, Calif.

Overview: Bring Marsbound! Mission to the Red Planet, an exciting hands-on lesson that addresses Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards, to your classroom! Build a mission to Mars using a mat and cards game, design and redesign, facing the same problems that real engineers and scientists face. Compare Earth and Mars geology and explore what it will take to create a Mars colony, socially, historically, physically and vocationally! This workshop is limited to 30 participants.

Please call 909-397-4420 to reserve your spot. For more information and directions, visit: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/education/index.cfm?page=115

*Note: The NASA/JPL Educator Resource Center will be hosting a giveaway day featuring numerous items from its Pomona, Calif., location immediately following this workshop. See below for more information.


Giveaway Days:

After 15 years in its Pomona, Calif., location, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Educator Resource Center will be moving. (A new arrangement for the center has not been determined. Continue to check the ERC page at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/education/index.cfm?page=115 for future updates.)

To facilitate our move, we need your help giving some of our excess material a new home. Up for grabs are items such as historical reference books, posters, historical JPL annual reports, bookmarks, postcards, and other JPL and educational materials.

In the coming months, we will have two free yard-sale-type events during which you can visit the ERC at the Indian Hill Mall in Pomona and take whatever you can use: Saturday, Nov. 9 and Saturday, Dec. 7. The doors will open for each event at 12:30 p.m. and close at 2:30 p.m., no need to RSVP. We recommend arriving with boxes or bags to carry items home. No early birds please.


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