# Presentation: 592311

## SEC Education and Public Outreach

## Education & Public Outreach

_**SEC-specific elements of Education and Public Outreach**_
**SEC Missions:**
- - All SEC missions now have EPO activities
- - Missions are the most productive source of EPO products
**SEC Scientists:**
- 	-  Primarily supported by SR&T grants or by own institutions
**Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum (SECEF):**
- - One of the four theme-specific forums developed from the OSS                                                                                                                                                                                                   Education Implementation Plan
- - A partnership of GSFC and the University of California at Berkeley                                                                                                                                                                                            (Rich Vondrak and Isabel Hawkins, co-directors)

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## Role of the SEC Education Forum

**Improve the effectiveness of SEC EPO activities**
**Identify and disseminate best EPO practices**
**Coordinate EPO programs from missions:**
- -  Prevent duplication of effort
- -  Facilitate presence of SEC EPO at national education conferences
- -  Facilitate participation of SEC scientists and missions in high-leverage                                                                                                                                                                                       EPO events
- -  Assess and respond to user needs
- -  Create EPO resource directory
**Seek high-leverage opportunities through partnerships**
**Make connections with existing education networks**

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## Selected SEC Highlights from 1997-1998

**Live from the Sun**		PBS Show - 250 stations; reached 2 million
- 					teachers and students
**ISTP**				Spanish language posters (NSTA distribution)
**SOHO**			Dynamic Sun CD-ROM
**IMAGE/POETRY**		‘Solar Storms’ workbook
**INSPIRE**			1700 high schools participating
**SUNBEAMS**			Focus on inner-city middle schools
**ECLIPSE ‘98**			7 million hits on Website

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## Live from the Sun - ISTP, ACE, SOHO

- “Electronic field trip” combines broadcast TV and videotape, Web chats, e-mail Q&A, hands-on activities, and printed materials
- Covers 35% of science standards
- Video/live shows aired March 16 and April 13, 1999, broadcast by 250 PBS stations and NASA-TV
- Estimated reach: 1.5 to 2 million teachers and students
- Produced by Passport to Knowledge, supported by OSS, ISTP, SOHO, ACE, other agencies

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## International Solar Terrestrial Physics - ISTP

**Storms from the Sun**
- 80,000 copies printed in English
- 50,000+ distributed nationally at NSTA, ASTC, NCTM, APS, AGU and other meetings
- Available through NASA CORE
- Included in “Live from the Sun” teacher kit
- Also available with movies on the Web
**Tormentas Solares**
- 10,000 copies of Spanish-language version of “Storms from the Sun” printed in March 1999
- Nearly half distributed already at NSTA, APS, and through teachers working in inner cities
- Will be featured at La Raza conference in July ‘99
**“****The Forecast” Brochure**
- Intended as overview of space weather for reporters, educators, policy makers
- Developed with Space Science Institute
- Printed 11,000 in 1998; 9,000+ distributed at NSTA, ASTC, press events, workshops

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## International Solar Terrestrial Physics - ISTP

- 19 middle and high school teachers from 8 states
- Focused on inquiry-based science, demos of existing and potential educational products
- Conducted evaluations of workshop, products, and classroom activities
- “Importance of contact between teachers and scientists cannot be overemphasized”
- “Every minute counted”
- “One of the best professional development experiences I’ve had”
- High-Leverage:  Lessons incorporated into ‘Live from the Sun’ PBS program

**‘****Connecting Kids to Sun-Earth Connections’ Teacher Workshop**

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## SOHO Education and Outreach

**Dynamic Sun CD-ROM:**
- Multimedia, educational presentation on the Sun with over 30 video clips and animations; middle school and high school versions, with teacher’s guides
- 30,000 produced in 1999 (~80 cents each) - 15,000 distributed
- Includes interactive poster, additional image sets, glossary and FAQs
- Voted best presentation at AGU Teacher Workshop

*Described by one workshop presenter as “a huge success!”*

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## IMAGE - POETRY

- IMAGE Program’s  Education and Public Outreach effort:
- 	Public Outreach, Education, Teaching and Reaching Youth (POETRY)
- Award-winning Website, featuring ‘Ask the Space Scientist’
- Teacher Resources:
- Mini-posters (5), Mission Fact Sheet (1), Brochure (1), Poster(1)
- ‘Solar Storms and YOU!’ math and science workbook
- Soda Bottle Magnetometer Network (MagNet)
- Low-cost monitoring of geomagnetic storms
- Real-time comparison with satellite views of auroral oval ( seen by IMAGE and POLAR satellites)
- Student space weather forecasting under classroom conditions
- Growing national and international network of participating schools sharing data
- ‘Blackout!’  Event-based Science Program (Addison/Wesley Publishing)
- Video in production for middle-school students
- Latest module in a popular science series used by 40,000 teachers

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## INSPIRE

- 1700 VLF receiver kits distributed to schools and individuals over the world
- Reached hundreds of teachers
- Reached thousands or tens of thousands of students
- Held five teacher workshops to train master teachers in classroom use
- INSPIRE - IKI (Space Research Institute, Moscow) agreement to fire pulsed electron beam over INSPIRE sites, eight days per year
- Steve McGreevy on NPR describing Natural Radio (VLF), April, 1999

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## SUNBEAMS

**Student Workshops**

**Teacher Workshops**

**Family Nights**

**Students United with NASA Becoming Excited About Math and Science**

**PARTNERS**
**NASA Goddard Space Flight Center**
**District of Columbia Public Schools**
**District of Columbia Alliance of Corporate Partners**

**Sharing**
**the Process**
**and Excitement**
**of Science**
**and Technology**

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## Eclipse ‘98 - Webcast with Exploratorium

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- February ‘98 total solar
-  eclipse used as a ‘hook’
- Emphasis on SEC science
- Exemplary Partnership
- - GSFC, SECEF, Exploratorium,
- - Discovery Channel Online
- - SEC scientists at UCB, Stanford,
-   and GSFC

**Eclipse ‘98 - Webcast with Exploratorium**

- High Leverage
- - ~ 7 million hits on Website in 2 days
- - ~ 300,000 individual sessions
- Media Coverage
- - Major newspapers
- -  International radio stations
- - CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC

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## Upcoming Efforts for 1999-2000

**Eclipse ‘99****	****	****	**Webcasts and museum programs
**IMAGE Launch****	****	**Launch Webcast and auroras Live@The
- 					Exploratorium event
**HESSI Launch****	****	**Launch Webcast and SolarMax Website

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## Eclipse ‘99 - Webcast with Exploratorium

- August ‘99 Total Solar Eclipse - SECEF
- Webcasts from Black Sea and Turkey land site
- Museum programs for thousands of visitors
- Exploratorium
- Lawrence Hall of Science
- Maryland Science Center
- National Air and Space Museum
- Five other museums already on board and more expected

**Eclipse ‘99 - Webcast with Exploratorium**

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## Upcoming Efforts - IMAGE

- First NASA Research Satellite to be launched in the ‘New Millennium’
- Launch Date, February 15, 2000 from Vandenberg AFB
- The IMAGE team and SECEF plan to feature IMAGE as a high-visibility SEC public event for 2000
- Components:
- Real-time launch in February 2000 presented as a Webcast for the public
- Exploratorium ‘Auroras’ Webcast program featuring IMAGE
- Alaskan schools (MagNet) will use IMAGE EUV data in classroom
- Periodic features of post-launch milestones through the Web
- Expected audience of 500,000 through collaborations with Exploratorium and Discovery Channel Online

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## Education and Outreach

- Internships for middle school master teachers at GSFC and UCB
- Development of classroom activities featuring HESSI discoveries
- Berkeley Ground Station EPO Activities
- High Visibility public events through “Live @ The Exploratorium”
- Program Evaluation through UCB’s Graduate School of Education
_**Partners**_
- Science Museums and Centers (Exploratorium and Baltimore Science Center)
- Science Education Gateway
-   (National consortium of science
-    museums)
- GSFC SUNBEAMS Program

**Education and Outreach**

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