Educator Workshop: How to Think Like a NASA Scientist

 

Educator Workshop                 March 19, 2013 This is a feature from the NASA/JPL Education Office. How to Think Like a NASA Scientist: Analyzing Data, Drawing Conclusions Date: Saturday, April 13, 2013, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Target audience: Middle and high school science and mathematics educators (but all are welcome) Location: Theodore von Kármán Auditorium, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Overview: Learn to think like a NASA scientist - and get your students thinking like one, too! This one-day workshop will show you how to teach students to read scientific graphs and draw conclusions based on real NASA data. Experts will discuss current Earth science missions and show how the scientists, themselves, draw conclusions from these data. Participants will also receive science and math application problems to take back and use in the classroom tomorrow. A registration fee of $25 covers continental breakfast, lunch and snacks. The deadline to register is April 5, 2013. For more information and to register, visit: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/education/index.cfm?page=373 -end-