HR: 1340h
AN: ED33B-0774    [Abstracts]
TI: From the Ionosphere to the Classroom: Exploring the Earth's Upper Atmosphere with CINDI
AU: Urquhart, M L
EM: urquhart@utdallas.edu
AF: Department of Science/Mathematics Education, University of Texas at Dallas, FN 33, P.O. Box 830688, Richardson, TX 75013-0688
AU: Urquhart, M L
EM: urquhart@utdallas.edu
AF: William B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, FN 22, P.O. Box 830688, Richardson, TX 75013-0688
AU: * Hairston, M R
EM: hairston@utdallas.edu
AF: William B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, FN 22, P.O. Box 830688, Richardson, TX 75013-0688
AB: CINDI (Coupled Ion Neutral Dynamic Investigation) is a NASA funded instrument scheduled for an early 2005 launch by the Air Force on board the C/NOFS (Communications/Navigations Outage Forecast System) satellite. In preparation for this launch, our education and public outreach program is well under way, and focuses on making the difficult-to-visualize science of the ionosphere understandable to students in middle school and above. Our formal education strategy is to create engaging and usable materials that meet teachers' needs and integrate well into existing curriculum in today's era of high stakes testing. We will present our middle school educator guide, a preview of our new CINDI comic book, highlights from our 2004 educator workshops, and future plans to bring the ionosphere into classrooms around the country.
UR: http://cindispace.utdallas.edu/
DE: 2437 Ionospheric dynamics
DE: 0805 Elementary and secondary education
DE: 0845 Instructional tools
SC: Education and Human Resourcese [ED]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting