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University of North Dakota elementary education students participated in a workshop during the spring semester 2015, completing an activity titled, “Strange New Planet.”  Resources for the workshop can be downloaded below. Educator Resources Handout Strange New Planet Handout NASA Websites and Kepler Presentation Strange New Planet LPI Instructions (Short – Informal Setting) Strange New World […]

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Orion Presentation Strange New Planet Presentation Strange New Planet Handout  

Undergraduates!  Apply for a summer 2015 internship at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics today! “In the Summer of 2015 scientists from the Solar and Stellar X-Ray Group (SSXG) and the Solar, Stellar, and Planetary Group (SSP) at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) will host undergraduate students from around the US. For 10 weeks these […]

NASA currently has scholarships and internships available for undergraduates and graduate students in a STEM field.  NASA MUREP (Minority University Research and Education Project) also has scholarships and internships available to underrepresented minority students in STEM. Application deadline: March 31, 2015. Apply online here. See flyer for details.

Launch was a success! Congratulations to teams for this year’s Near-Space Balloon Competition!  This year’s participants are: Kindred High School: Team Royal Diamond   Kindred High School: Team Spatato   May-Port CG Middle & High School: Team MPCG Science Geeks   Northwood Middle School: Team Thunderstruck   Red River High School: Team Polaris   Shiloh […]

Approximately 115 education students participated in workshops at North Dakota State University, Valley City State University, the University of North Dakota, and Dickinson State University in the fall semester 2014.  Resources for these workshops are listed below. Strange New Planet Student Handout NASA websites and Kepler Presentation NASA websites and Kepler Presentation (UND) Strange New […]

  Proposals are now being accepted for the 4th annual Near-Space Balloon Competition (NSBC).  Students design and build payloads (science/engineering experiments) to be flown on high altitude balloons that reach the stratosphere at ~100,000 feet.  That’s the edge of space! This NASA competition is open to North Dakota students grades 6-12 in teams of 3-20. […]

The North Dakota Space Grant Consortium (NDSGC) is now accepting proposals from faculty members at UND, NDSU, and all North Dakota affiliate institutions for research focus area (RFA) funding in a STEM (science, technology, engineering, or mathematics) field that is also NASA-relevant. (UND and NDSU proposals must include collaboration and active participation with faculty and […]

The following downloadable resources are NASA Teacher guides with lesson plans and activities for K-12 educators.  Some of the guidebooks are a little dated, but still contain relevant information for students.  For more resources see NASA’s “For Educators” page.    3 2 1 Liftoff! (Pre-K – 2) Space Activity Book (Grades K-3) Discovery (Grades K-3) […]