THE SUN-EARTH CONNECTION
An Education and Public Outreach (EPO)
Newsletter
for
the Sun-Earth Connection Science Community - and beyond!
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TABLE
OF CONTENTS
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=> 1. Solar Week 2004 – Bring Your Class,
=> 2. High Visibility - Strut Your Stuff
on the NASA Portal
Website
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1. SOLAR WEEK 2004 - BRING YOUR CLASSROOM ON
BOARD
FOR
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WWW.SOLARWEEK.ORG
The
Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum (SECEF) welcomes all
students and teachers wishing to participate in Solar Week,
activities and games will be centered on understanding our
nearest star: the Sun.
The
site is primarily designed to spark the interest of pre-
and
early teen girls in science by direct interaction with
female scientists at the forefront of solar research. All
participants, male or female, are welcome!
Participants
will learn about solar flares, the solar cycle,
solar eclipses and solar observations. They will see the latest
images of the Sun from space, build their own sundial, make
their own filter wheel, and measure the speed of a solar storm
as
it hurtles towards the Earth. There is also a strong careers
component. This spring's Solar Week will include a section focusing
on
the upcoming TRANSIT OF VENUS across the face of the Sun on
JUNE
8. Register or drop in at
www.solarweek.org
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2. NASA PORTAL WEBSITE -- A STELLAR
AND
RESEARCH PROGRAMS TO SHOWCASE YOUR KEY NASA EDUCATIONAL
INITIATIVES
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WWW.NASA.GOV
-- THE NASA PORTAL
Think
of the education sections of the NASA Portal as a
high-visibility on-line magazine, wherein missions and research
programs can highlight their successes.(In January 2004 these
sections reported 1.9 million page views!)
The
educational sections of the NASA Portal consist of the
For Kids, For Students, and For Educators areas. These are
directly accessible from the NASA home page (www.nasa.gov)
through the main navigation buttons located in the upper
left side of the main page.
The
Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum has volunteered to
contribute articles for the months of May 2004 ("Humans
in
Space”), and August ("Safety"). If you have educational
products
or
programs you would like to highlight, please contact
Karin Hauck (karin@ssl.berkeley.edu) with your ideas. For May's
edition, please get in preliminary touch by April 14th!
You
will be expected to format your article in adherence with
the
guidelines in this document: ftp://sunearth.ssl.berkeley.edu/NASA_portal_guidelines.pdf
Compelling
images, animations or illustrations are encouraged.
The
education team of the NASA Portal has final approval
over what is published, and can help with editing. But for
collection purposes, please send to Karin Hauck (email above).
For
examples of some articles, look at the CHANDRA and SPITZER
links. http://www.nasa.gov/missions/science/f_supernovae.html
and
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/scitech/display.cfm?ST_ID=24
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Sponsor Info: Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum
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An
integral element of the Office of Space Science (OSS)
education and public outreach strategy is the establishment of
a
network for space science to foster a wide variety of edu-
cation and public outreach
activities. This network of
institutions include (1) four Education Forums that serve as
major centers for space science education and public outreach
in
each of the four OSS Themes, and (2) a set of regional
Broker/Facilitators
who, for example, help arrange collab-
orations between scientists and the education community.
The
Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum (SECEF) is a partner-
ship led by Goddard Space Flight Center and UC Berkeley’s
Space Sciences Laboratory. To learn more about SECEF and the
Office
of Space Science Education and Public Outreach program,
go
to:
http://spacescience.nasa.gov/education/ecosystem/index.htm
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How
to Contact Us
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The
Sun-Earth CONNECTION Education and Public Outreach
newsletter is issued approximately every 4-6 weeks. Back
issues
can
be found at
http://sunearth.ssl.berkeley.edu/SECNews/
The
Newsletter is sponsored by the NASA Sun-Earth Connection
Education
Forum (
Rich
Vondrak and Isabel Hawkins, Co-Directors) Sun-Earth
Connection
Education Forum Web Site:
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov and
http://sunearth.ssl.berkeley.edu
Please
direct all submissions to the newsletter to:
Karin
Hauck (Editor) - E-mail: editor@sunearth.ssl.berkeley.edu
Phone: (510) 642-2343 Fax: (510) 643-5660
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