Upcoming Online Educator Workshops: Geology Meets Art | Our Solar System and the Periodic Table

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Title: Online Educator Workshops - NASA/JPL Education Office

 

JPL EDUCATION / ONLINE WORKSHOPS

Art and the Cosmic Connection

Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2015, 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. PDT

Target Audience: Formal and informal educators for grades K-12

Location: Webinar - visit: https://connect.its.txstate.edu/jplnasaepd/

Overview: Geology meets art! Let your inner geologist use art to recreate craters, mountains, rivers, wind-driven landscapes and more. Learn to read planetary images as well as Earth images. This educator workshops meets Next Generation Science Standards for "Earth Systems: Earth's Place in the Universe" with climate change and social studies integration.

No registration required. Visit the webinar page at https://connect.its.txstate.edu/jplnasaepd/ on March 24 to attend.

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Our Solar System and the Periodic Table of Elements

Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2015, 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. PDT

Target Audience: Pre-service, in-service, home-school and informal educators for grades 3-8

Location: Webinar - visit: https://connect.its.txstate.edu/jplnasaepd/

Overview: This lesson is an engaging introduction to what the periodic table is and why it is important to us. It includes a game and a short writing prompt to check for understanding. It meets Next Generation Science Standards as well as Common Core Standards for writing.

You will need crayons or colored pencils and the following periodic table blank: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/sr/documents/toe5.pdf

No registration required. Visit the webinar page at https://connect.its.txstate.edu/jplnasaepd/ on March 24 to attend.

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These free webinars are offered through the NASA Educator Professional Development Collaborative, or EPDC, which provides formal and informal educators with NASA resources and materials that support STEM learning. For more information, visit the EPDC catalog of webinars page at: https://sites.google.com/site/aerospace4educators/

For a list of more upcoming educator workshops from NASA/JPL Education, visit: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/education/index.cfm?page=387