Educator Resources
Boeing Educator Scholarship Fund
We are thrilled to announce the establishment of the Boeing Educator Scholarship Fund, which will enable us to provide programming to Kindergarten through eighth-grade teachers who have not previously had an opportunity to participate in a program at the Challenger Learning Center-St. Louis. Priority will be given to teachers at underserved schools.
At the core of the student program is the teacher training component. Prior to the student mission, teachers receive a one-day workshop, where they will be given a curriculum, which includes standards-based activities and resources for the teachers to use with their students back in the classroom. In addition, as part of the one-day training, teachers will have the opportunity to participate in the same simulated space mission as their students.
The school program includes a choice of either the Voyage to Mars™, Rendezvous with a Comet™ or Return to the Moon™ (expected to be available beginning Fall 2008) simulated space mission for fifth through eighth-grade teachers and the Micronauts program geared towards Kindergarten through fourth-grade teachers.
Applications for the 2008-09 school year are due by 4:00 p.m. April 18, 2008.
2008-09 Boeing Educator Scholarship Application
Correlations to Education Standards
All of our school programs are aligned with both Missouri and Illinois state education standards. View the links below for details:
Missouri
Rendezvous with a Comet Show Me Standards
Rendezvous with a Comet Show Me Frameworks
Voyage to Mars Show Me Standards
Voyage to Mars Show Me Frameworks
Illinois
Rendezvous with a Comet Learning Standards
Learning Standards-High School
General Space Websites
- Space Shuttle Mission Patches
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/shuttle_patches.html - NASA Mission Patches
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/mission_patches.html - Welcome to the Planets
http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome/mars.htm - Aeronautics and Space Resource for Education
http://spacelink.nasa.gov/home.index.html - StarChild: A Learning Center for Young Astronomers
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/StarChild.html - Space.com
http://www.space.com/ - Introduction to the Nine Planets
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/intro.htmlSpace Image Library
http://www.okstate.edu/aesp/image.html
Working in Space - Tools and Suits Used by Astronauts
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/space/teachers/suited/6work.html
Amazing Space
http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/
- Lessons based on breaking Science@NASA reports
http://www.thursdaysclassroom.com/ - The Space Educators' Handbook
http://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/ - Mars Exploration: Teachers
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/classroom/teachers.html - Destination: Mars
http://teachspacescience.org/graphics/pdf/10000273.pdf - Space Day Website
- Mars Activities
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/classroom/pdfs/MSIP-MarsActivities.pdf - NASA Educator Resource
www.nasa.gov
Voyage to Mars™-Related Websites
- MarsNews.com
http://www.marsnews.com/ - NASA's Mars Exploration Program
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/ - Mars Introduction
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/mars.htm - Aeronautics and Space Resource for Education
http://spacelink.nasa.gov/home.index.html - Welcome to the Planets
http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome/mars.htm - NSSDC Photo Gallery
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/ - Viking Project Information
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/viking.html - Athena Mars Exploration Rovers
http://athena.cornell.edu/home/index.shtml - The Planetary Society
- http://www.planetary.org/mars/
- Mystery On Mars
http://www.headbone.com/derby/mystery/ - The Space Place
http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/index.shtml - Field Trip to Mars
http://www.kidscosmos.org/field-trip-to-mars.html - Mars for Kids
- http://athena.cornell.edu/kids/index.html
- YoungStLouis.com
http://www.youngsaintlouis.com/
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