Thrill of Discovery Educator Workshops
It's 2011 - NASA's Year of the Solar System!
Join us on a cosmic road trip and share in the…
Thrill of Discovery!
NASA's Discovery and New Frontiers missions are traveling vast distances to find answers to age-old questions. These robotic spacecraft are celestial detectives, revealing how our solar system formed and evolved - doing brilliant science utilizing way cool technologies.
- See Sights Never Before Seen on Mercury: MESSENGER
- Get Up Close and Personal with Asteroids and Comets: Dawn, Stardust-NExT and EPOXI
- Map the Moon's Gravity with Twin Satellites: GRAIL
- Peer through Jupiter's Clouds: Juno
- Cruise to the Outer Reaches of the Solar System: New Horizons
One Dynamic Workshop, Four Sites:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Pasadena, CA
Johnson Space Center | Houston, TX
Jackson Middle School Observatory | Champlin, MN
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory | Laurel, MD
All Four Sites Include:
- Special Speakers
- Dr. Sean Solomon, Principal Investigator for MESSENGER
- Dr. Marc Rayman, Chief Engineer for Dawn
- Dr. Ravit Helled, Gravity Team Member on Juno
- Hands-on, standards-aligned activities and multimedia
- For both K-12 and out-of-school time educators
- Break-out sessions at varying grade levels
- Resource Packets
- Containing mission activities for all grade levels, links to great on-line interactives, your own copy of Space School Musical, and other cool goodies – trading cards, bookmarks, stickers and more!
- Containing mission activities for all grade levels, links to great on-line interactives, your own copy of Space School Musical, and other cool goodies – trading cards, bookmarks, stickers and more!
Webinar Option
Can't make it to one of our workshop sites? Watch the special speaker presentations over the Internet through our free webinar!