Coffee, cold drinks and cookies will be served. Families are welcome. The ERC offers books and slide sets to check out, free posters and curriculum packets and other goodies. The poster, designed for grades 6-12, has mathematical activities relating to the Space Interferometry Mission, which will measure the distances between the stars in the universe. The Spanish version was designed to serve the Hispanic population of Florida, as well as the global community.
Lessons support national educational standards in math and science.
Recent topics include housekeeping in space, motion sickness, and movie science versus real life. The Environmental Literary Council Web site is intended to help students and teachers study environmental issues by introducing them to a variety of viewpoints and thoughtful analyses on environmental issues and guiding them to the best resources available on the Internet. Issue guides are available on a variety of topics including air, climate, biodiversity, energy, forests, urban ecology and water. Using four NASA space observatories, astronomers have shown that a flaring black hole source has an accretion disk that stops much farther out than some theories predict. This provides a better understanding of how energy is released when matter spirals into a black hole.