Lunar and Planetary Institute






image of the Moon rising over Earth's atmosphereEarth-Moon Institute for Teachers

 

Best Ways to Bring the Moon into Your Classroom

At the Lunar and Planetary Institute
9am – 4pm, June 9-13th, 2008

Click HERE to Apply!

Who: 5th – 8th grade in-service and pre-service teachers

What: A 35-hour NASA-sponsored institute, investigating the Moon

Why:

  • Bridges content from the Moon’s to the Earth’s geology and environment

  • Uses hands-on activities modeling science concepts

  • Provides tools to address student misconceptions

  • Incorporates authentic inquiry experiences

  • Receive professional development and TAGT Awareness credit hours, and numerous classroom resources

Join us to learn about this exciting topic that generates student enthusiasm!

Topics address science content TEKS: 2.7D, 4.6A, 5.6A, 5.12C, 6.5A, 6.5B, 6.13A, 7.13B, 8.12A, and multiple science process TEKS:

Moon Phases and Eclipses
Earth-Moon Comparisons
Tides and Gravity
Formation of the Moon
Geology of the Moon
Volcanism
The Rock Cycle
Plate Tectonics
Size and Scale of the Solar System

Preview Agenda

Cost: Institute registration is $150, and includes lunches.  

Registrations received by Friday, May 30 will be able to join tours of JSC Mission Control and the Lunar Lab:

We have arranged for a few optional experiences as part of the week.  On Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon, we have tours of the historic mission control and of the lunar laboratory at Johnson Space Center.  For this private tour of mission control, we will be able to sit inside mission control to watch a movie (Apollo 13), and for the lunar laboratory, we will be able to put on special attire and enter the curatorial rooms (http://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/welcome.cfm ).  On Wednesday evening, we will return from Johnson Space Center and relax, eat pizza, and look through the Johnson Space Center Astronomical Society’s telescopes at the Moon and other objects.

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Earth-Moon Institutes are being offered by the Lunar and Planetary Institute, with support from NASA's Science Mission Directorate.

Collaborators include:

  • NASA Astromaterials Research Exploration Science (ARES) Education and Public Outreach . ARES has many hands-on activities and background information on lunar geology and more. This site contains teacher activities appropriate to be done in the classroom for middle school and high school students.

  • Harris County Department of Education is a nonprofit tax-assisted organization dedicated to the equalization of educational opportunity and to the advancement of public schools. HCDE has been serving the county's public schools for 117 years. The organization impacts the educational community through visionary leadership, shared resources and innovative programs.

  • Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) Instrument Education and Public Outreach . M3 is is one of NASA’s instruments aboard the Indian Space Research Organization’s Chandryaan-1 spacecraft. It will map the entire lunar surface, and reveal the minerals of which it is made.  This education site includes a suite of hands-on inquiry based activities engage middle-school students in understanding and interpreting reflectance spectra from Earth and Moon rocks.  These activities are part of a suite of educational resources that investigate the geologic history of our Moon, the Chandrayaan-1 Mission, spectrometry, and future lunar exploration.

 

For further information, contact:
Christine Shupla
Lunar and Planetary Institute
3600 Bay Area Boulevard
Houston, TX  77058
2 81-486-2135
shupla@lpi.usra.edu