Above and Beyond
Location:
Oklahoma
Description:
Above and Beyond is an advanced space science course for K-12 teachers, which focuses on the excitement of NASA's Earth Science Enterprise to motivate students. Course topics cover history of space flight, principles of flight, aircraft as their orbits and their business, remote sensing: principles and practice. Guest lecturers include remote-sensing
scientists, NASA Specialists in classroom application of remote sensing, NASA Aerospace Education Specialists, and Oklahoma NASA Space Grant Consortium professors.
URL:
http://www.cameron.edu/nasa.osgc/
Organization:
Oklahoma Space Grant Consortium
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA)
Contact:
Victoria Duca-Snowden, Director, Oklahoma Space
Grant Consortium, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, College of
Geosciences, 710 Asp Suite 5, Norman, OK 73069; Phone: (405)
447-8483; Fax: (405) 447-8455; Email: vduca@ou.edu
Education Level:
Kindergarten-Grade 4
Grades 5-8
Grades 9-12
Subject:
Remote Sensing
Program type:
Teacher Training (In-service)
Date Added to teachearth.com:
5/1/00