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"Inspire the next generation of aerospace pioneers with AESP education resources. The Aerospace Education Services Project has a place to find and share educational resources. Join us and other educators to download, use, and rate materials."

"NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which is carrying a suite of instruments including a $32 million University of Colorado Boulder package, has provided scientists with new information that energy from some solar flares is stronger and lasts longer than previously thought. See Also: Space & Time * Solar Flare * Sun * Northern Lights Earth & Climate * Geomagnetic Storms * Atmosphere * Energy and the Environment Reference * Solar flare * Solar radiation * Corona * Geomagnetic storm Using SDO's Extreme ultraviolet Variability Experiment, or EVE instrument designed and built at CU-Boulder, scientists have observed that radiation from solar flares sometimes continues for up to five hours beyond the initial minutes of the main phase of a solar flare occurrence."

Follow the Desert RATS Team During Analog Testing The NASA Desert Research and Technology Studies team, also known as Desert RATS, marks its fourteenth annual field test and the first time a mission to an asteroid will be simulated. While NASA has landed astronauts on the moon and rovers on Mars, the agency is only beginning to tackle the challenges of visiting an asteroid. Desert RATS team members will conduct simulated human and robotic space exploration test activities in extreme Arizona terrain to investigate and develop realistic technical and mission-driven operations similar to those of an asteroid mission.

"About GRAIL MoonKAM GRAIL MoonKAM (Moon Knowledge Acquired by Middle school students) is GRAIL's signature education and public outreach program. It is led by Dr. Sally Ride, America's first woman in space, and her team at Sally Ride Science in collaboration with undergraduate students at the University of California San Diego. "

"Common Core State Standards. The standards clearly communicate what is expected of students at each grade level. This will allow our teachers to be better equipped to know exactly what they need to help students learn and establish individualized benchmarks for them. The Common Core State Standards focus on core conceptual understandings and procedures starting in the early grades, thus enabling teachers to take the time needed to teach core concepts and procedures well-and to give students the opportunity to master them."

"The standards stress not only procedural skill but also conceptual understanding, to make sure students are learning and absorbing the critical information they need to succeed at higher levels - rather than the current practices by which many students learn enough to get by on the next test, but forget it shortly thereafter, only to review again the following year."

To define a function: f = (x,y) -> x^2 + y^2 To evaluate: show f(3,4). If you exclude the arguments: show f you get: *function (x, y) { return add(pow(x, 2), pow(y, 2)); }*. That's really cool.* *Provides a great way to discuss functions both mathematically and computationally.

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"Whether you're interested in math news, getting connected with other math geeks, or even learning about math education, you should check out these Twitter feeds that feature some of the most prominent math lovers online."

"With Glean PEMDAS (Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally), we present a math learning environment to help teachers extend students' understanding of order of operations concepts. Glean PEMDAS can be used to introduce Order of Operations, and is best applied to critical application of order. Critical application of Order of Operations moves beyond understanding how operations are applied to understanding what happens when operations within an expression are done in a different order. This process adds flexibility to how students think about number and operations, which is important with the introduction of algebra. "

" to design and develop well-engineered assessment tools to support US schools in implementing the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSS). Tools for formative and summative assessment that make knowledge and reasoning visible, and help teachers to guide students in how to improve, and monitor their progress. These tools comprise: * Lesson Units for Formative Assessment: some focused on math concepts, others on non-routine problem solving - 20 per grade for Grades 7-12. * Professional Development Modules: to help teachers with the new pedagogical challenges that formative assessment presents. * Summative Assessment Task Collection: to illustrate the range of performance goals required by CCSS. * Prototype Summative Tests: designed to help teachers and students monitor their progress, these tests provide a model for examinations that may replace or complement current US tests."

Hercules and the Four Horsemen Filmed in 1960 - The Four Horsemen were the world's only four engine per aircraft demonstration team. Flying four C-130As in close formation, the team would perform a number of maneuvers over a twenty-three minute airshow that closed with a bomb burst -- or as the team called it, Horseman Burst. The show was performed at an altitude of 500 to 1,000 feet.

"Welcome to the Desmos Calculator! Use this calculator for graphing, for calculating, for sharing, for creating. Look on the right for help or inspiration. "

"it is a powerful resource, very simple to use and available for students to use at home. Several new features have been added"

"One of the biggest challenges in teaching science, technology, engineering, and math is capturing the students' imaginations long enough for them to see all of the possibilities that lie ahead," the company wrote on the Learn with Portals site. "Using interactive tools like the Portal series to draw them in makes physics, math, logic, spatial reasoning, probability, and problem-solving interesting, cool, and fun, which gets us one step closer to our goal-engaged, thoughtful kids!"

"The 2012 National STEM Video Game Challenge will be launched in partnership with Digital Promise, a new initiative created by the President and Congress, supported through the Department of Education. The initiative is designed to unlock the promise of breakthrough technologies to transform teaching and learning."

"The Glean ComboCoin tool provides multiple levels of problem difficultly and works with classrooms at various grade levels. It's a fun tool to integrate with your teaching of fundamental--and typically serious--multiplication skills, including the distributive and associative properties of multiplication. Lesson Ideas and Classroom Activities: ComboCoin Jeopardy - large group (with a projector): Have students work individually or in teams to come up with combinations as quickly as possible. When they have a combination, they raise their hands and enter it into the ComboCoin game board. Each time a team finds a new combination, they receive a point."

"Cybersmart provides activities, resources and practical advice to help young kids, kids, teens and parents safely enjoy the online world. Cybersmart also offers training and resources for schools and materials for library staff."

"'Girls With Wings' is a reality based broadcast series (including content for web and mobile) and feature length documentary film about women who fly. This is the place where you will meet the coolest, smartest, sexiest and most adventurous women on the planet. Other women talk about their dreams and fantasies, 'Girls With Wings' live them every day. 'Girls With Wings' will help to inspire the next generation of women pilots!"

The Women of NASA (WON) Langley Reseach Center (LaRC) website! The WON LaRC website showcases diversified, professional (civil service) women from NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) many of which support NASA outreach programs such as the LaRC Federal Women's Program Committee, the LaRC Speakers Bureau, the HEP@NASA LaRC program, and LaRC Diversity Awareness Committee. Read the WON profiles of the diverse women working at our NASA center and some of the reviews from their student/teacher/parent visitors. Don't forget to frequently visit this page to read about the latest participants since this list of profiles is sure to grow!