NASA EXPRESS -- Your STEM Connection for March 17, 2022

Check out the latest NASA opportunities for educators, students and families.

‌ ‌ ‌ Make a STEM Connection: Spring Equinox Are you ready to spring into a new season? March 20 is the vernal equinox, marking the start of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere. Make a classroom connection to this special spot in Earth's yearly trip around the Sun with these STEM resources. Crossword: Earth's Seasons and the Sun NASA Space Place: All About Seasons NASA Spotlite Video: What Causes Seasons Sign Up for Artemis I STEM Learning Pathway This evening, the Space Launch System rocket will be rolled out to the launch pad to begin testing for the Artemis I mission that will send an uncrewed Orion spacecraft thousands of miles beyond the Moon – farther than any spacecraft built for humans has ever flown.   Are you looking to share the excitement of Artemis with your STEM learners? Leading up to launch, NASA’s Artemis I STEM Learning Pathway will provide weekly newsletters filled with STEM resources and ready-to-use content. Each week’s resources can be used individually or in combination to create a lesson plan tied to the learning series’ weekly theme.   Are you ready to sign up? Click here to register and select the “Artemis I STEM Learning Pathway” add-on option. STEM Webinars for Educators, Parents and Caregivers Join the NASA STEM Engagement & Educator Professional Development Collaborative at Texas State University for educator professional development webinars. Attendees earn a certificate that can be submitted for professional development hours. Sound Effects: Presented in Spanish March 22 at 7 p.m. EDT Deep Space Communications March 23 at 7 p.m. EDT The Cosmos Through Your Own Eyes March 24 at 5 p.m. EDT For a full list of upcoming webinars, click here. New GLOBE Educator One-Week Pacing Guide for Urban Heat Islands Audience: Formal and Informal Educators, Parents, and Caregivers Webinar Date: March 23 at 7 p.m. EDT Contact: angela.rizzi@nasa.gov   Join the GLOBE Partnership at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia for an overview of a new GLOBE resource related to urban heat islands. The “Urban Heat Islands” one-week pacing guide provides a five-day sequence of activities for grades 6-12. Webinar attendees will explore implementation strategies including how to use the GLOBE Observer app to make and submit land cover observations. Click here to register. New NASA Groundlink Episode  This week, the Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA) crew of HERA Campaign 6 Mission 2 emerged after 45 days in isolation at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Check out the latest Groundlink episode to hear the crew answer student questions about their experience helping NASA prepare for future missions to the Moon and Mars. More Opportunities to Get Involved Virtual Classroom Connection: Crew-4 Audience: Educators of Grades 6-8 Registration Deadline: March 23 Contact: hq-stemcop@mail.nasa.gov   NASA’s Next Gen STEM team is seeking two middle school classrooms to participate in a live virtual event with a NASA expert on April 6 at 1 p.m. EDT. During this unforgettable interactive event, students will learn about NASA's Commercial Crew Program and the upcoming Crew-4 launch. Students will be able to ask questions and will be challenged to complete a hands-on activity. The educators will then share the students’ activity results with NASA through the NASA CONNECTS community of practice. Registration does not guarantee selection to participate in this event. Earth to Sky Academy 2022 Audience: Place-based Informal Educators and Interpreters Application Deadline: March 31 Academy Dates: Oct. 17-21, 2022 Contact: genevieve.demessieres@nasa.gov   Registration is open for this free event aimed at creating and strengthening regional communities of practice for improving climate science communication. Graduates will be prepared to develop and run an Earth to Sky climate communication course and be supported in building and sustaining their regional community of practice. Applicants must apply and attend as a team of three to five members from various agencies/organizations. At least one member must have attended an Earth to Sky course or minicourse. Student Spaceflight Experiments Program — Mission 17 to the International Space Station Audience: School Districts Serving Grades 5-12, Informal Education Institutions, Colleges, and Universities Inquiry Deadline: April 30 Start Date: Sept. 1 Contact: jeffgoldstein@ncesse.org   The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education announce Mission 17 to the International Space Station, a community engagement initiative in STEM. In each participating community, one proposed student experiment is selected to fly in low-Earth orbit on the space station. For precollege grades 5-12, each community is expected to engage at least 100 students in real microgravity experiment design and proposal writing. For an undergraduate community, at least 30 students are expected to engage. Interested communities must inquire about the program no later than April 30. NASA eClips Spotlite Design Challenge Audience: Students in Grades 6-12 Contact: shannon.verstynen@nianet.org NASA and the National Institute of Aerospace are challenging student teams to produce a video for the NASA eClips website. NASA Spotlites are 90- to 120-second videos that are written, filmed, edited, and produced by students using the engineering design process. Each video targets a science misconception.   Entries are accepted on a continuous basis with rolling deadlines. Opportunities With Our Partners Igniting a Passion for STEM in Girls: Challenger Center and AstraFemina Women's History Month Event March 18 at Noon EDT U.S. Department of Energy's Minority Educational Institution Student Partnership Program-Summer Deadline: March 31 Centers for Disease Control Museum: Disease Detective Camp and Online Summer Course Deadline: April 1 Want to subscribe to get this message delivered to your inbox each Thursday? Sign up for the NASA EXPRESS newsletter at https://www.nasa.gov/stem/express. Are you looking for NASA STEM materials to support your curriculum? Search hundreds of resources by subject, grade level, type and keyword at https://www.nasa.gov/education/materials/. Find NASA science resources for your classroom. NASA Wavelength is a digital collection of Earth and space science resources for educators of all levels — from elementary to college, to out-of-school programs. https://science.nasa.gov/learners/wavelength Check out the ‘Explore NASA Science’ website! Science starts with questions, leading to discoveries. Visit science.nasa.gov. To view the site in Spanish, visit ciencia.nasa.gov. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Visit NASA STEM Engagement on the Web:  NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement: https://stem.nasa.gov  NASA Kids’ Club: https://www.nasa.gov/kidsclub

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