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resources and content into your classroom!
LPI K-12 Teacher Trainings
STEP – This three year project provides select groups of 6–8th grade science specialists and lead teachers in the Houston region with in-depth Earth and Space Science content, activities, and pedagogy through 15 days of professional development, and assistance as participants then present workshops to other teachers in their organizations.
Characteristics of the Universe: a workshop at HCDE – This one day workshop for 8th grade science teachers will be offered by LPI at the Harris County Department of Education on Feb. 20. Addresses TEKS 8.8 (A,B,C,D,E).
Lunar Workshops for Educators – This series of week-long lunar science- and exploration-themed workshops is designed for grade 6–12 science teachers, sponsored by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
Mars Revealed – A week-long training on the relationship between evolving technology and scientific understanding of Mars, for high school science teachers, which will take place in summer 2013 in Houston, Texas
Unknown Moon Institute – A week-long training on the Earth-Moon relationship and lunar science, for high school science teachers, which will take place in June 2013 in Laurel, MD.
Select Past Teacher Trainings
(links to activities and resources available)
Around and Round: Lunar Phases, Planetary Orbits, and Seasons – This page has links to activities, powerpoints, and resources regarding teacher professional development on the topics of seasons, lunar phases, and the scale of the solar system.
Cracking Up: Plate Tectonics – This page has links to activities, powerpoints, and resources regarding teacher professional development on the topics of rock processes and plate tectonics.
Stars and Galaxies – This page has links to activities, powerpoints, and resources regarding grades 8-12 teacher professional development on the topics of our place in the Universe, scale and distance, the properties of light, the scale of our Galaxy, and classifying stars.
Summer 2012 Unknown Moon Institute – This page has links to hands-on and data-rich activities, powerpoints, and resources used in the high school teacher professional development about the Moon, its phases, properties, and how scientists are exploring its surface.
Summer 2012 Mars Revealed – This page has links to activities, powerpoints, and resources used in the high school teacher professional development about Mars and the relationship between the evolving technology of missions and our changing understanding of this fascinating planet.
Past Educator Field Trips
(links to activities and resources available)
2009 – The Heat from Within - Earthly Insights into Planetary Volcanism
2008 – Floods and Flows: Exploring Mars Geology On Earth2007 – Earth's Extremophiles: Implications for Life in the Solar System
2006 – The Heat from Within: Earthly Insights into Planetary Volcanism
2005 – Life at the Limits: Earth, Mars and Beyond
2004 – Floods and Flows: Exploring Mars Geology On Earth
2003 – The Great Desert – Geology and Life on Mars and in the Southwest
2002 – Extremities: Geology and Life in Yellowstone and Implications for Other Worlds
2001 – Planetary Volcanism – Field trip to Washington/Oregon volcanic field
For more information please e-mail Education@lpi.usra.edu.
