"Mysteries of Microbes: Fascinating Fieldwork" - Chat with Rose Grymes

Dr. Rose Grymes is Associate Director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI), where she is directly influencing the development of the multi-disciplinary field of astrobiology.

ISS - A Home in Microgravity:
Launch Support Hardware

This webcast will discuss the needs of Life Science experiments in the space environment compared to Earth's environment. Launch Support Hardware (habitats) give NASA the ability to launch experiments aboard the shuttle, fly them in the ISS and then astronauts prepare them for the ride home to Earth.
Read Deborah Wells' Bio
More information is available.
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Centennial of Flight
Chat with Fanny Zuniga in English or in Spanish!

Fanny Zuniga is a researcher on second generation simulations.
Read Fanny Zuniga's bio

ISS - A Home in Microgravity:
Chat with Deborah Wells

A follow-up on the November 8 webcast, this will be your chance to ask Deborah Wells, Flight Experiments Project Manager at KSC about how plants and other living organisms are studied in space and how the astronauts preserve the experiments for the ride home to Earth.
Read Deborah Wells' Bio

NASA Robotics for Exploration and Discovery

NASA and HUD proudly announce An Online Inter-Agency Collaboration during which NASA experts will discuss the current and future uses of robots with HUD Neighborhood Network centers.
More information is available
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"Mysteries of Microbes: Fascinating Fieldwork" - Classroom Fieldwork

This forum provides students an opportunity to engage in an investigation (Building a Winogradsky Column) that can be conducted at home or at school between webcasts. Students may share and compare their findings with their peers about each phase of the scientific inquiry process.
See the video to help set up your Winogradsky Column

"Mysteries of Microbes: Fascinating Fieldwork"- Results
Third in a 3-part series hosted by Quest and National Astrobiology Institute

Students will engage in an investigation (lesson) that can be conducted at home or at school between webcasts. We encourage students to post and share their findings via forum with their peers world-wide.
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Read Dr. Brad Bebout's Bio
Read Mary Hogan's Bio

November
12-16

Measurement, Ratios, and Graphing: Safety First

NASA engineers and researchers use measurement, ratios, and graphing to maintain high levels of aviation safety and to develop new technologies to meet the growing demands - keeping you safe in tomorrow's skies.

Mathematics: measurement, ratios, graphing
Science: unifying concepts and processes, science as inquiry, science and technology, science in personal and social perspectives

Beginning

November 19

NASA Why? Files
Case of the Mysterious Red Light

In "The Case of the Mysterious Red Light," the tree house detectives accept the challenge of trying to find the cause of the unusual red sunrises and sunsets in their community. They use scientific inquiry and Problem-Based Learning to learn about light, volcanoes, and weather. The tree house detectives get a little help from the famous magician, Franz Harrary who helps them to understand that "seeing is not always believing!"

A NASA "Why?" Files Kids' Club 3rd grade classroom in Hampton, VA tells the tree house detectives about the three types of volcanoes, giving them a valuable clue to the mystery of the red sunrises and sunsets. Community experts and NASA researchers also help the tree house detectives "dust off" their thinking caps to realize that the case may "erupt" before their very eyes.

ISS - A Home in Microgravity:
Station News Network(SNN) Presents:

Station Updates - The News Program just for Students about the International Space Station

More information is available

ISS - A Home in Microgravity:
A Live Virtual Tour of the International Space Station from Johnson Space Center.

You are invited to join our tour guide for a live tour of the International Space Station mockup and training facility. Ask your questions during the tour and have them answered during the event.

Classroom of the future

Students will be growing plants in the classroom to compare with tested by NASA scientists on the ground and on the ISS. This forum will help teachers and students to set up and run their classroom experiments. Scientists from NASA will participate in the forum.
Background on Farming in Space
More information coming soon