Education

Space Colony Lesson Plans

http://www.lessonplanet.com/search?keywords=space+colony&media=lesson

 

http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/space-colony-imitation-polish-radio-station

 

NASA Space Settlement Competition

http://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/contest/

 

Space Colonization

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/hqlibrary/pathfinders/colony.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_colonization

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Space_Colonization

 

An Artistic View of Outer Space

http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/3233

 

McGraw Hill

http://treasures.macmillanmh.com/alabama/teachers/resources/grade5/oral-language-resources/resource/exploring-space

 

International Space Exploration Coordination Group (ISECG)

A new trend involves 14 national space agencies combining their efforts toward future space missions.

This entity has links to educational resources at http://www.globalspaceexploration.org/links

 

For recent US educational policy information: http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp

next decade. See Click here to watch the President's remarks.

K-12 STEM EDUCATION REPORT

September 15, 2010 the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released a plan for improvements in K-12 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education. For more information, see these features on the above website:

 

 

 

 

 

 

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To the Moon Project:

http://www.e-missions.net/mmab/

 

Revolutionary book entitled Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge by Toru Iiyoshi and M.S. Vijay Kumar (2008)

http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/0262033712pref1.pdf

 

A Time article regarding President Obama's education reform plan

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1972996,00.html

 

Another states:

A $4.35 billion fund for states based of their willingness to reform their schools… Read more: at http://www.educationindustrynews.com/category/education-reform or http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1957277,00.html?iid=sphere-inline-sidebar#ixzz0ocT8DdgA

Education Industry News

http://www.educationindustrynews.com/

 

Coalition for Space Exploration

http://spacecoalition.com/education-station

 

Students for Space Exploration and Development of Outer Space

http://seds.org/

 

The "whole child"

http://www.umsl.edu/~fazzaroc/Critical/id12.htm

On the complexities of teaching "the oppressed" and "subjugated" people of the world

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogy_of_the_Oppressed

Genius grants:

There is a fresh new momentum. People are finally understanding that every child has a right to strive and to achieve greatness. Here are several examples.

 

INTEL Science Talent Search 

http://www.intel.com/about/corporateresponsibility/education/sts/index.htm?cid=cim:ovt|edu_us_isef|ks13AD3|s&ysmwa=LROTfSsIyojGBtyBjLq4xw-5_GLV0uapdpDd99UMnNUYhkcfuyn_Rsmkwy0Pb6kb

 

Most space organizations and agencies have information on their websites for K-12 students and college students. Spend time researching resources linked to websites.

 

NASA

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/index.html

 

NASA Missions

http://www.nasa.gov/missions/index.html

 

The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere. Has a large volume of teaching videos on YouTube covering topics such as basic arithmetic, algebra to differential equations, physics, chemistry, biology and finance.

http://www.khanacademy.org/

 

 

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics' website contains a wealth of resources for educators and students to enhance all forms of learning programs. See

http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=5