Kepler: A Search for Habitable Planets
Posted by jeremyl on October 15, 2008
Kepler: A Search for Habitable Planets
Space Science Workshop for Teachers
Celebrate NASA¹s Kepler Mission and the International Year of Astronomy
Saturday, November 15, 2008
8:15 am 5:00 pm @ LASP
Join us for an exciting day of science and hands-on activities for middle school and high school science teachers. Dr. Jeff VanCleve will discuss the science behind NASA¹s Kepler Mission, which launches in March 2009.
Standards-based, classroom ready activities include: Human Orrery, Detecting Extrasolar Planets, Transit Tracks, and building a computer-interfaced transit model. Dr. Bill Possel will lead a tour of the NASA Mission Operations Facility at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP).
Location: LASP Conference Room, 1234 Innovation Drive, Boulder, CO
Each workshop participant will receive a complete transit model, which includes a LEGO orrery, Vernier light sensor, interface and graphing software, and lamp and light bulb, a $150 value. Lunch will be provided.
A letter verifying 8 hours of professional development can be provided.
Learn about NASA¹s Kepler Mission: http://Kepler.NASA.gov
This workshop is free! To register, visit:
http://lasp.colorado.edu/education/Kepler_workshop.html and click on ³Registration Form². You will receive an email confirmation. Note: Online registration will be available next week. Follow instructions on the webpage for early registration.
Questions?? Contact Erin Wood at Erin.Wood@lasp.colorado.edu or call (303)735-0962.
Jointly hosted by NASA¹s Kepler Education and Public Outreach Program at NASA Ames Research Center, SETI Institute, and UC Berkeley¹s Lawrence Hall of Science in collaboration with the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics and Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation.
