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Slow down, make time for "Awe Walks"

Give yourself a particular task – look for things in the landscape, like certain colors; how many different shaped flowers or leaves you can spot; things to eat like seeds and berries; or spy on the world of insects all around. 
Try to see the forest, not just the trees. Imagine yourself crossing the landscape as if looking down from above, and how the land carries on and on in all directions.

The primary goal of an Awe Walk is to focus outside yourself for a time. Leave the daily world behind, and be absorbed by what surrounds you. 
Even though we spend most of our lives in a mostly human-made world, our bodies are still primed to interact with the natural world in a positive, enriching way. It’s a natural ability. And taking time to put aside the world we carry with us, and letting the outdoors in to fill a larger amount of our attention, has increasing and lasting benefits. 
Stephen Nett is a Bodega Bay-based Certified California Naturalist, writer and speaker.
Originally published January 2023.

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Setting kids up for success. It’s what every parent, guardian, and educator wants for our nation’s schoolchildren. They understand the power that small changes have to make a big difference in the learning environment. That’s why here at USDA, we recently announced a generational investment in our children’s futures through updated school nutrition standards.
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After only a century without leap day, summer wouldn’t start until mid-July!But the peculiar adjustments don't end there. If Earth revolved around the Sun in exactly 365 days and six hours, this system of adding a leap day every four years would need no exceptions. However, Earth takes a little less time than that to orbit the Sun. Rounding up and inserting a 24-hour leap day every four years adds about 45 extra minutes to every four-year leap cycle. That adds up to about three days every 400 years. To correct for that, years that are divisible by 100 don't have leap days unless they’re also divisible by 400.If you do the math, you'll see that the year 2000 was a leap year, but 2100, 2200 and 2300 will not be.Have students learn more about leap years with this article from NASA's Space Place, then have them do the math for themselves with this leap day problem set. You can also have students write a letter or poem to be opened on the next leap day or get them learning about orbits across the solar system.And since we've got an extra 24 hours this year, don't forget to take a little time to relax!Educator Resources Problem Set Leap Day Math In this problem set, students calculate the difference between the calendar year and Earth's orbital period to determine when leap years occur. Subject Math Grades 5-8 Time Less than 30 mins Collection Solar System Scale & Size Lessons Explore a collection of standards-aligned lessons all about the size and scale of our solar system. Educator Guide Planetary Poetry Have students write a poem they can open and re-read next leap day! Subject Science Grades 2-12 Time 1-2 hrs Student Resources Article What Is a Leap Year? Get the answer in this article from NASA Space Place. Plus, learn if other planets have leap years! Article How Long Is a Year on Other Planets? Get the answer in this article from NASA Space Place. Collection All About the Size and Scale of the Solar System Learn how big and far away the planets are with these projects and activities.
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Rather than helping provide context for parents, the documents raise questions as to why such a small share of LCFF funding is included in the LCAP, even though COEs are complying with the requirements. Displaying total COE revenues and expenditures—including funding for district support and funding that is passed through to districts—makes it more challenging to assess spending specifically related to juvenile court and county community schools. This issue is unique to COEs, as school districts primarily spend funding on services to students and do not have such a large share of spending that is passed through to other entities. By including all revenues in the totals, the summary makes it more challenging to see how COE spending on juvenile court and county community schools compares with the amount they receive from the alternative education grant and other funding specifically for these programs. 
Interest in Understanding Overall Alternative Education Spending. In our conversations with COEs, they indicated that many educational partners are particularly interested in understanding the current services that are available for students and whether these services are consistently provided. For example, parents may be interested in knowing whether their child will be able to receive counseling services, the types of courses the student can access at a court school, and whether a student with a high school diploma would have access to higher education. These questions are likely common because students are enrolled in these schools on short notice and juvenile court schools are not as accessible to parents as a traditional school. The spending in the LCAP, however, focuses on new spending and does not comprehensively describe services available to students. Moreover, some services that students receive may not be included in the LCAP because they are funded by county government or other external entities. (For example, facilities costs and other services for juvenile court schools that are covered by county probation departments.) The LCAP template includes a “general information” section that provides a space for COEs to describe their schools and the students they serve. COEs sometimes use that section to more broadly describe available services for students. The template also includes a section for COEs to summarize their spending that is not included in the LCAP. COEs are not required to share any specific details in either of those sections, so the level of detail varies by COE. 
Given COE Student Population, Distinction Between Base Program and Increased and Improved Services Seems Arbitrary.
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So we can actually ask them about group living and what it’s like to live with their crew mates in addition, in addition to team processes and cohesion, all that good stuff. But specifically, we want to know, like, are you a tidy person? Are you considerate of the other people you’re living with? Do you appreciate the skills and abilities that they bring into this habitat? And it’s not just for work, it’s also for living. So I’m really excited to kind of understand more about the group living dynamic in addition to how they’re just interacting with the habitat.
Host: It’s probably helpful, the fact that this is not anyone’s first go around. Well, not maybe for some, but for you who have, you know, you’ve worked on different analogs, this is not your first time actually approaching it and understanding what needs to go into getting really good data as part of an analog. You’re probably pulling lessons from some of your previous work.
Lauren Blackwell Landon:  Right. We’re actually fortunate that CHAPEA kind of came along as it did, because all this other research that we’ve been doing in isolated, confined environments with teams, of course, has resulted in this really solid set of measures that help us look at behavioral health and performance. So we’re easily able to just throw that into CHAPEA. We adapted a little bit for the needs of CHAPEA, of course. It’s called the Human Factors and Behavioral Performance Exploration Measure Suite. It’s a mouthful. If folks want to use it, just give us a call. We’re happy to share these measures. So we’ve made a lot of the measurement quite easy. We just adapted the frequency and the protocols. And we’ve also looked at other task performance, things that go into CHAPEA, like the EVAs are going to be a really critical one. So we have a whole team that’s really experienced and they’re thinking about the EVAs. And of course, EVAs is a team task.
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I am also coaching the boys soccer team, directing the school’s "Lion King Jr." play, contributing to the science pilot program, and serving on the social committee for teachers and staff. I love using these different roles to make connections with not just my students, but also students from all grades. Looking for ways to bring NASA STEM into your classroom or already have a great idea? The Education Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory serves educators in the greater Los Angeles area. Contact us at education@jpl.nasa.gov.Explore More Make a Paper Mars Helicopter In this lesson, students build a paper helicopter, then improve the design and compare and measure performance. Subject Engineering Grades 2-8 Time 30-60 mins Art and the Cosmic Connection Students use art to describe and recognize the geology on planetary surfaces. Subject Science Grades K-12 Time 1-2 hrs 
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Muscle Biopsy, an investigation from ESA (European Space Agency), analyzed molecular changes in skeletal muscle before and after spaceflight and identified an enzyme product that could be used as a possible indicator of muscle health. The findings suggest that current exercise protocols are effective in preventing muscle deconditioning and support improvements in countermeasures to protect crew health and performance on future deep space exploration missions.6
While current exercise programs appear to moderate changes in musculoskeletal systems, individual results vary. In addition, current regimens likely cannot directly transfer to longer exploration missions due to space constraints, environmental issues such as removal of heat and moisture, device maintenance and repair needs, and the challenges of finding time for exercise and avoiding interference with the work of other crew members.7
Planned missions to explore the Moon and deep space may last up to three years. Research continues to zero in on the combination of diet, exercise, and medication that could keep astronauts healthy during spaceflight, when they set foot on the Moon or Mars, and when they return to Earth. Because aging, sedentary lifestyles, and illnesses cause bone and muscle loss on Earth, this research also can benefit people on the ground.
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