New Educator Workshops: Climate Change, Space Discoveries and Physics of Sound

New Educator Workshops: Climate Change, Space Discoveries and Physics of Sound
This is a feature from the NASA/JPL Education Office.

01.14.11 -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is helping sponsor the following educator workshops at locations around the country.

Climate Change
Free Workshop
Saturday, February 5, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Location: Columbia Memorial Space Center, Downey, CA
Meets science standards for grades 2 through 5

Join us for a free workshop on a timely and fascinating subject. We will focus on the history of climate change and NASA missions. Teachers will take away exciting lessons that can be used in your classroom.

Interested educators must RSVP to the Columbia Memorial Space Center in advance at (562) 231-1200. For more information and directions to the Columbia Memorial Space Center, go to www.ColumbiaSpaceScience.org .

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Thrill of Discovery
About $25 registration fee
Saturday, March 19, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
4 locations:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD
Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, TX
Jackson Middle School Observatory, Champlin, MN For K -12 teachers and out-of-school time educators

NASA's Discovery and New Frontiers missions are traveling vast distances to find answers to age-old questions. These robotic spacecraft are celestial detectives, revealing how our solar system formed and evolved, and doing brilliant science utilizing way cool technologies.

Come celebrate NASA's Year of the Solar System and receive a great packet of resources, including your own DVD of "Space School Musical."

More details will appear on http://discovery.nasa.gov .

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Physics of Sound
Free Workshop
Saturday, April 9, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Location: Columbia Memorial Space Center, Downey, CA
Meets science standards for grades 2 and 3

Do you know why there is no sound in space? Did you know that elephants and whales communicate using the similar low frequencies? Learn these and other exciting ways to teach the physics of sound to your students.

Interested educators must RSVP to the Columbia Memorial Space Center in advance at (562) 231-1200. For more information and directions to the Columbia Memorial Space Center, go to www.ColumbiaSpaceScience.org .

To see more workshops, go to http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/education/index.cfm?page=110 .

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