Explore Education

Be in today rather than tomorrow..............

Thursday 7 November 2024

November 07, 2024

Integrating Relevant Science Investigations into Migrant Children Education

For three weeks in August, over 100 migrant children (ages 3-15) got to engage in hands-on activities involving blueberries, pollinators, and eDNA as part of their time with The Blueberry Harvest School (BHS). BHS is a summer school program for migrant children whose families work in Washington County, Maine during the wild blueberry harvest season. […]

November 06, 2024
from NASA https://ift.tt/u34YO1p
November 07, 2024

Mars 2020 Perseverance Joins NASA’s Here to Observe Program

The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission has recently joined the NASA Here to Observe (H2O) program, where NASA planetary missions are partnered with universities to encourage undergraduate students from historically marginalized groups to pursue a career in STEM.

November 06, 2024
from NASA https://ift.tt/Zwyl4pH
November 07, 2024

X-59’s Engine Started for Testing

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft sits in its run stall at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California, in this image from Oct. 30, 2024. The engine-run tests, which began Oct. 30, allow the X-59 team to verify the aircraft’s systems are working together while powered by its own engine. In previous tests, […]

November 06, 2024
from NASA https://ift.tt/jDxvEBO
November 07, 2024

El X-59 enciende su motor por primera vez rumbo al despegue

Read this story in English here. La misión Quesst de la NASA ha alcanzado un hito importante con el inicio de las pruebas de motor que propulsará el silencioso avión supersónico experimental X-59. Estas pruebas de arranque del motor, que comenzaron el 30 de octubre, permiten al equipo del X-59 verificar el funcionamiento conjunto de […]

November 06, 2024
from NASA https://ift.tt/nTEDSfQ

Wednesday 6 November 2024

November 06, 2024

Bundling the Best of Heliophysics Education: DigiKits for Physics and Astronomy Teachers

For nearly a decade, the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) has been working to bring together resources through its DigiKits–multimedia collections of vetted high-quality resources for teachers and their students. These resources are toolkits, allowing teachers to pick and choose interesting content to support their instruction. As a partner with the NASA Heliophysics Education […]

November 05, 2024
from NASA https://ift.tt/E0bNOCH
November 06, 2024

U.S. Navy Fleet Training Launch to be Conducted at NASA Wallops

A rocket-propelled target is scheduled to launch from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia during a window Thursday, Nov. 7 to Friday, Nov. 8 between 9:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. EST both days as part of a U.S. Navy Fleet Training exercise. No real-time launch status updates will be available. The launch will not be livestreamed […]

November 05, 2024
from NASA https://ift.tt/q9dvgYf