The facility contains Internet-connected PC's and Macs for web searches and to try out software packages. We can guide you to NASA websites for manned missions, the Hubble Space Telescope, some planetary and deep space missions such as Galileo, Cassini, Chandra, Stardust, and the upcoming Mars Millennium Missions. Visits are by appointment only. The topic of the workshop is the contributions of African American scientists and inventors. The lives of historical and contemporary Black innovators will be placed in the context of the 1ong-standing struggle for Black equality.
Funding is pending.
For teachers K-4. Participants will receive entomological supplies, resources, and materials to enable them to easily include insects into classroom lessons. Graduate academic credit available. A mathematics department professor and an experienced middle school mathematics teacher will teach on the content and pedagogy of pre-algebra mathematics through lecture, discussion, group problem solving, and homework. Participants will learn how pre-algebra topics build on students' concrete knowledge of arithmetic to prepare them for the abstractions of algebra.