NASA Educator ResourcesAn On-line FREE Treasure Trove

How to lose sleep in a hurry

Prepared by Sally Pardue for Millard Oakley STEM Center User Group Training

A Treasure Map to help navigate

www.nasa.gov

Selecting the “For Educators” link in the second tier horizontal menu bar

Selecting the “Find Teaching Materials” link in the left vertical menu list

Try clicking some of the fields to search the database for that criteria, for example picking “Grades 5 – 8”

Narrow the selection by picking a topic from the far right list

Narrow the options even more by picking a type of resource from the middle column

Further refine: click the little arrows beside the topics and select a subtopic – Now click “View” to see the list of materials that match your seaRch for Grades 5 – 8, Classroom Activities, Physical Science, Force and Motion

YOU MIGHT HAVE TIME…

USING THE SEARCH TERM

GRADES 5 – 8 IN THE LEFT MENU

GRADES K – 4 IN THE LEFT MENU

http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/national/core/home/index.html

Educator Guide

Lesson Plan

Activity

SEARCH FOR: SCIFILES

Clicking on one of the options from the prior page, takes you to a whole listing of resources

http://scifiles.larc.nasa.gov/episodes.html

One of the SciFiles Educator Guides

Each Guide shows how the Episodes map to National Science Standards

http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/events/sci/index.html

http://nasa.ibiblio.org/program.php?program=NASA-SCI-Files

I like this site because it has both the Educator Guide and the video clips

http://www.knowitall.org/nasa/scifiles/index.html This is one of the alternative sites

This is the on-line site for the TV show, available even though the show is off the air

http://www.tntech.edu/stem/nasa-educator-resource-center/

http://spaceplace.nasa.gov