NASA: Education: Page 10

Offers educator guides, information, and project details related to NASA's space optics program.

A fast track to lesson plans that engage, entertain and adhere to the National Science Education Standards. By grade level and topic.

Includes links to NASA Affiliated sites, Professional Organizations and Standards,Schools/Museums/Planetariums, and more, from the Space Science Data Operations Office of NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Hosted by NASA's Quest Project, STO is a location on the Internet that allows Internet users to interact with members of NASA, and publish their work online. Live activities include Web chats with members of NASA.

In this NASA-sponsored program, undergraduate college students spend six weeks in an intensive program at Kennedy Space Center doing supervised laboratory work with investigators.

Listed in this area are the current NASA educational products available on Spacelink. Throughout the year NASA produces new items and revises existing products. The publication number shown with the product indicates its version.

FIRST is an acronym, which means "For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology." We sponsor a national robotics contest immersing high school students in the exciting world of engineering.

STARDUST was launched on February 7, 1999 carrying microchips.Two of the microchips are inside the Sample Return Capsule, and will return back to Earth with the capsule in the year 2006. The other two chips are on the spacecraft body and will remain in space forever. We have a listing of all of the names that have been inscribed onto the microchips.You can search for your name.

NASA has selected students from six high schools around the country to prepare and fly their experiments on future NASA space flights. Mar 4,2004 NASA news.

Developed by NASA Wallops Flight Facility to offer hands-on flight experiences that can be accomplished in a single school year. Student experiments are integrated into a NASA sounding rocket payload.