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NASA and Univision Communications Inc. have launched an on-air and online initiative to help engage Hispanic students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, education. View Spanish-language educational video segments featuring Hispanic employees from NASA and check out the online resources for educators. The website also includes information on educational opportunities for students.

aviation-related charities receive grants during 2010. All of those that were nominated are already doing "good" for aviation. We want to come along side to help build awareness and increase funding opportunities. And, we want to mobilize the pilot community to learn more about them and get involved.

Free math tutorials and problems to help you explore and gain deep understanding of math, calculus, trigonometry and geometry topics.

Two computer instructors in the CalWomenTech Project used this information to develop a YouTube Video strategy to help their students improve their skills in binary numbers, a core concept in computer networking.The two videos combined had more than 53,000 views in the last year!

Physics Songs aims to be the world's premier website devoted to collecting and organizing all songs about physics. Songs about physics can help students to remember critical concepts and formulas, but perhaps more importantly they communicate the lesson that physics can be fun.

Foldit is a revolutionary new computer game enabling you to contribute to important scientific research. This page describes the science behind Foldit and how your playing can help.

six subject areas involved in helping students find their way through the project: CAD, careers, English, history, math, and science. There are four components to the project: the research, the printed document, the multimedia presentation, and the board presentation. Each discipline covers a piece of each component. The teacher in each subject area guides the students to think about a discipline and how it relates to aviation. "

Energy's education programs help ensure an adequate supply of scientists, engineers and technicians for energy-related research, production activities, and the transfer of technology. The advancement of science, mathematics and technology education is an essential part of DOE's mission.

"Welcome Educators The Aerospace Education Division of Civil Air Patrol delivers quality educational products and programs to help aviation and space to the general public and create an awareness of the importance of aerospace in our lives and the future of America. "

The following curricula are some of the most requested by teachers over many years. These were not created by AIAA, but we felt that they would have value to teachers and so have made them available in pdf format. Some of this curriculum has come from educational partners or has been passed along as a favorite. We hope that these materials will help you excite your students about math and science in a new way!

NASA has opened online voting for the agency's OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Award student video contest. The public is invited to vote for its favorite videos, made by students in grades three through eight, developed to help educate America's youth about the benefits of NASA's technologies.

Of the 200 apps available, they vary in quality, and many were not developed by Facebook. Here are some top picks to help you use this social networking phenom spur student achievement.

Highlights of Calculus is a series of short videos that introduces the basic ideas of calculus - how it works and why it is important. The intended audience is high school students, college students, or anyone who might need help understanding the subject. In addition to the videos, there are summary slides and practice problems complete with an audio narration by Professor Strang. You can find these resources to the right of each video.

To help our team members, especially the newer ones, test their knowledge of the rules we are in the process of creating quizzes based on the game manual. We've completed the Game and Arena quizzes, and are working on the Rules quiz now. You can check them out at http://www.squidoo.com/logomotion-rules.

High School Science Helpful online resources for educators teaching Physics, Chemistry and Biology

40 years ago, three human beings - with the help of many thousands of others - left our planet on a successful journey to our Moon, setting foot on another world for the first time. Tomorrow marks the 40th anniversary of the July 16, 1969 launch of Apollo 11, with astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. aboard. The entire trip lasted only 8 days, the time spent on the surface was less than one day, the entire time spent walking on the moon, a mere 2 1/2 hours - but they were surely historic hours. "

"Here are four vital questions that will help you become more effective with your classroom assessments - increasing students' achievement, student test scores and your job security."

I am a grade 10 math student who has the greatest trouble learning algebra. I will need a lot of help understanding the concepts if I am going to survive the year-end exam. If it is possible, could you explain algebra to me so it is simple for me to understand?

"Motion Math creates movement-based learning games that give players an intuitive sense of math. Our bouncing star game - the first entry in our suite - helps learners perceive and estimate many forms of fractions."

"This project involved young people from all over the UK in building a RANS S6-ES kit aircraft, and was begun during 2003 under the leadership of Captain Stewart Luck, to mark the Centenary of Powered Flight. It helped celebrate Brooklands' Centenary year and is funded through the museum"