The mission is to explore natural and artificial systems that support life and examine how these life support systems allow humans to explore extreme environments. Register by calling Caroline Joyce at 227-3365. It has a multimedia approach embedded into the content and skills.
Teachers participate in professional development in fall.
Teachers begin their work in the fall with a dynamic and comprehensive Professional Development Program. Students and their teachers will join researchers at work in NOAA's Aquarius Underwater Habitat in Florida and NASA's International Space Station in Houston. These are research platforms from which students will examine the abilities and risks involved in human exploration of extreme locations. The search for knowledge includes content-rich units on the spirit of exploration, watershed studies, science themes of Systems and Equilibrium, research platform design, training requirements for a mission, and actual mission research in the ocean and in space. Students and teachers join the researchers at the live, satellite broadcasts from the expedition site.