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Through funding from NASA, faculty at Montana State University and classroom teachers from across the nation have developed an extensive library of on-line and interactive K-12 science education materials for teaching astronomy. Closely aligned with the NRC National Science Education Standards, these web based lessons make maximum use of exciting on-line NASA resources, data, and images. In addition to classroom-ready materials using contemporary teaching strategies, CERES has developed several on-line NASA data search engines and two graduate level distance learning courses, available over the internet to K-12 teachers. There currently are twenty K-12 interactive astronomy lessons developed and on-line, with more to follow. It is the desire of the NASA CERES Project Staff to field test each lesson in a K-12 classroom. Educators participating in classroom testing these materials will provide specific feedback about them. Teachers from across the nation will help shape these materials into user friendly, standards based, inquiry driven activities. The current field test time-line is from January through April 1999. The experiences of already active field test teachers have already been presented at the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, April 1998, and at the Supercomputing '98 Conference in Orlando, Florida, November, 1998. If you are interested in becoming a field test teacher
for the NASA CERES Project, or have any questions concerning the project,
contact slater@physics.montana.edu
or steph@math.montana.edu.
The links listed below will appear on all field-test pages; each link is followed by a brief description. Home: This page - the CERES field test home page. Members: A page listing all past and present field test members. Schedule: The schedule of events for all field tests teachers. Activities: A listing of all NASA CERES activities to be field-tested. Status: Current news of the NASA CERES Field Test Project. Survey: Links to on-line or hard copy versions of the Inquiry Assessment Survey, the instrument that teachers will complete once each field test lesson has been tested. Archive: Links to previous discussions of NASA field test activities, plus biographies of several field test members. Search: A search engine (under development) designed to search NASA CERES activity pages. Discussions: This page contains links to all of the public discussions for this project.
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