Middle School, High School and College Educators of Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies, Technology, the Arts, and Science are invited to attend a special Space Science workshop as part of our TeacherTECH Science Series. This workshop is presented in collaboration with The Astronaut Teacher Alliance (TATA), the International Space Station (ISS) EarthKam, and the UCSD California Space Grant Consortium. TATA brings Space down to Earth and into your classroom across all curriculum.

Monday - Tuesday, July 6-7, 2009
9:30am - 3:30pm
San Diego Supercomputer Center
Training Room 279
University of California, San Diego

Workshop Description:
We are moving on to the new frontier and going to space. The goal of the workshop is to initiate Education for Your Space Generation.

TATA offers K-16 educators an opportunity share in a concern for the common good, cognizant of one fact: We are, on a global level, merging with the inevitable path to space.

By virtue of your application for participation on this team, you demonstrate a TATA priority: YOU are a part of the education solution.

As we raise the first generation that will experience orbital flight as commonplace, humans will come to realize, in a very literal sense, that the dreams created by the Apollo’s are in retrograde and once again pointing our Eyes to the Skies as a global community.

Space captures the attention and imagination of students, two critical components of success in academia. This two-day workshop will take you through a NASA portal on a journey of discovery.

YOUR mission during the workshop is to put the astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) to work for you with the ISS EarthKAM. ISS EarthKAM (Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle school students) is a NASA education program which enables students, teachers of all academic disciplines, and the public to learn about
Earth from the unique perspective of space.

If we have captured your attention and imagination, read on…and become a member of the team.

ISS EarthKAM is a NASA sponsored program that provides stunning, high quality photographs of our planet taken from the Space Shuttle and International Space Station. ISS EarthKAM images are unique because they are taken by middle school students.

Using the World Wide Web, you will request images during ISS EarthKAM Mission 09_04 based upon your classroom investigations. Since the program's inception in 1996, the camera has flown on five Space Shuttle flights, it is now on the International Space Station, and taken almost 5000 images.

Explore an amazing image collection and accompanying learning guides and activities, and discover the extraordinary resources available to you that support classes in Earth science, space science, geography, social studies, mathematics, communications, and art. As a team member of TATA Expedition 1, you play an important role on an international team dedicated to Education of Your Earth’s first Space Generation (EYES).

Team members of Expedition 1 will personalize their own resource web page on the official NASA website. We will deliberate on the simplicity with which space effortlessly points EYES to the Skies across curriculum to engage students in raising their overall GPA.

EYES to the Skies is not a stand-alone curriculum, nor does it challenge teachers to deviate from adopted curricula as set forth
by your district. EYES shows us how to see a way to operate within the current framework of your average curriculum, and facilitates
minor modifications to your current pacing guide to offer your students the standards with panache.

In this workshop, you will:
* Bring exciting NASA curriculum into your classroom
* Take pictures from the International Space Station
* Set up your own page on the NASA website
* Align what you learn in this workshop with national and state standards
* Participate in the Stardust at Home mission
* Send your name to Mars on the next rover mission

Professional Development Credit will be available through UCSD Extension.

Please join us for an exciting and informative session of hands-on learning presented by Maria Catalina, TATA founder, NASA Solar System Ambassador and teacher at Mar Vista Middle School.

Registration is free. Space is limited. Please contact Ange Mason at 858-534-5064 or amason@ucsd.edu to reserve your space.

For additional information on other TeacherTECH program, including our summer workshops, please visit http://education.sdsc.edu/teachertech