Aerospace Education Information Page

Aerospace Education Information
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Welcome to my small (but hopefully helpful) resource page for Aerospace Education.

This page is designed to help you with educational information and projects for children and young adults. For more involved opportunities in your area, contact your local Civil Air Patrol.
Or write to me at:

Kay Tracy, 2LT CAP

1927 E12th St.

Stockton, Ca. 95206-3534

I have recently been selected as a NASA / JPL Solar System Ambassador.

The link below will take you to my Galileo/ Solar system page, (conatantly under construction/addition). Please note, my area for Ambassador-ship is Northern California, but anyone is welcome to the information I post!

Project Galileo Ambassador



Additionally, the local Squadron 72 cadets here in Stockton, will be participating in the Radio Jove project. Starting in July, the Cadets will begin to assemble a Radio receiver and antenna system that will allow them to participate as Radio Astronomy Observers. Cadets will help collect data on radio emmisions from Jupiter, the Sun and possibly other sources in space!
With luck, we will be using our INSPIRE project radio to listen to the Leonid Meteors later this month!

Radio Jove build your own Radio Telescopes



Teachers!!!!!!
Civil Air Patrol has a special class of membership for educators, only $30 / year! CAP provides you with a curriculum and project book for use with your students, certificates to issue your class, and-when the lessons are complete- a Plaque for your wall! Not to mention that as an AEMemeber, you will have discounted access to the NCASE, National Congress on Aerospace Education- to be held in San Diego for the year 2000, and, if that isn't enough, CAP Memebers (Including AEMemebers) are eligible for Military Transport to and from the NCASE. While this service is not guranteed, past actions of the military have been VERY supportive.
Contact myself (at the e-mail link) or the National HQ CAP.

National Headquarters, Civil Air Patrol

California Wing Cadets



I suggest the following items, available from the Civil Air Patrol Bookstore.
Send your FAX REQUEST to: (fax # (334)-953-4235)
with your name, and mailing address.
Items that you request from the list below, are sent free, in single copies.
Be sure your FAX request includes the name of the item from the list.
Note, there are "BOOKLETS" for the younger children, and "PACKETS" for the middle school level with the titles below.
(list the items from the choices below):
Grades K-4
Fun in Flight: Exploring Careers in the Aerospace World
4-in-1 Activity Book 1
4-in-1 Activity Book 2
for the Elementary levels, grade 2-4
Activy booklets for:
Doolittle; Earhart; Lindbergh;
Rickenbacker; Space Shuttle;
Wright Brothers; Teacher Notes.
The titles listed in Booklets, are also available
as PACKETS for middle school age, grades 5-8.


If you do not have FAX-ability, you can wite to:

HQ CAP-USAF/ET
105 S. HANSELL ST.
MAXWELL AFB AL 36112-6332

Don't forget to ask them for a copy of the "Aerospace Education Teaching Materials Catalog!


I have discovered some fun, and decent space and aerospace toys available through the web, and, shopper that i am, i think the prices are pretty good, at least i have not found them many places, and certainly not for any less than here: Apollo 11 Playset
These folks have many other toys of an educational type as well, from playsets for younger children, to models for the "older kids"!


For excellent information (provided you are an educator) the Dryden Flight Center at Edwards AFB in California
has an excellent Educator's Resource Center, like most NASA facilities. Go to their Web site, below
And use their FAX form (found in the ERC menu). I have NOT been able to get their online form to work, perhaps a browser conflict.

Dryden Flight Center

NASA Student Involvement Program

The NASA Student Involvement Program (NSIP)
is a national program of investigations and design challenges for students in grades 3-12.
NSIP is designed by scientists and educators to support the National Standards for science,
mathematics, technology, and geography.
This program was formerly known as the Space Science Student Involvement Program (SSIP).
The NSIP web site offers entry forms and information for participating.
Students can choose from one of the following competitions:
Design a Mission to Mars, Watching Earth Change,
Earth Systems in My Neighborhood, or Aeronautics & Space Science Journalism.
The NSIP entry deadline is February 23, 1999.
Further information about the NSIP competition can be found at the following Internet location:

NSIP

A course on Radio Astronomy, and using Radio Telescopes

Jet Propulsion Lab Home Page

jpl

Basics of Space Flight

Deep Space-1 news

DeepSpace1

Cassini Mission to Saturn

cassini
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