HR: 1340h
AN: ED23B-1286    [Abstracts]
TI: Bringing Space Scientists, Teachers, and Students Together With The CINDI E/PO Program
AU: * Urquhart, M
EM: urquhart@utdallas.edu
AF: Department of Science/Mathematics Education, University of Texas at Dallas 800 West Campbell FN33, Richardson, TX 75080, United States
AU: Hairston, M
EM: hairston@utdallas.edu
AF: Center for Space Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas 800 West Campbell WT15, Richardson, TX 75080, United States
AB: We will report on the activities, challenges, and successes of the ongoing collaboration between the William B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences (CSS) and the Department of Science/Mathematics Education (SME) at the University of Texas at Dallas. At the core of our partnership is the Education and Public Outreach program for the Coupled Ion / Neutral Dynamics Investigation (CINDI) instrument. CINDI is a NASA-funded program on the Air Force's Communication / Navigation Outage Forecast Satellite (C/NOFS) which will be launched in summer 2008. The CSS faculty and research scientists and the SME faculty and students have created a dynamic program that brings scientists and K-12 teachers together. Our activities include middle and high school curriculum development, teachers workshops, graduate course work for teachers, creation of the popular "Cindi in Space" educational comic book, and bringing K-12 teachers and students to work and/or visit with the CINDI scientists. We will present the outcomes of this collaborative effort as well as our recent experience of having a physics teacher from a local high school as our Teacher in Residence at CSS in summer 2007.
DE: 0805 Elementary and secondary education
DE: 0810 Post-secondary education
DE: 0815 Informal education
DE: 0820 Curriculum and laboratory design
DE: 0830 Teacher training
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting