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Calling all Math Educators; NASA Needs Your Help

9 July 2003

Help NASA Review Instructional Lessons and Receive an Educator
Certificate of Participation

The NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory Office of Education and Public
Outreach is seeking volunteers to assist in the alignment of NASA
instructional lessons to the National Council of Teachers of
Mathematics (NCTM) Standards.  We are looking for motivated educators
to spend 5-10 hours to help place our NASA curricular lessons into a
matrix containing the NCTM Standards.

If you would like to view an example of an Education matrix there is
one organizing science lessons available for use by clicking the link
below.  The Proposed Mathematics Education Standards Matrix will
utilize the same general setup, and the same process for getting to
lesson plans.

 http://quilt.jpl.nasa.gov http://quilt.jpl.nasa.gov/

If you register to participate in our Review, you will receive
information by mail including all materials needed to complete the
assignment, along with a free poster; to view the poster click :

http://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn/educ/DSN_Poster.pdf

After you have looked over the lesson that we sent you, we would like
to elicit feedback from you about the particular instructional lesson
you were given and the use of space science in Mathematics, as well
as the overall process.

Upon completion of the assignment you will be provided with a
Certificate of Participation: NASA Education materials Standard
Alignment Review.

Qualifications for entry are: (1) At least one year K-12 math
teaching experience, (2) Knowledge of math content standards
(national, state, or district), and (3) Internet access.

If you are interested in participating, or would like more
information, please click on the link below:

http://quilt.jpl.nasa.gov/entryform

(If you have trouble with the URL, please reply to
Kristen.K.Zortman{at}jpl.nasa.gov mailto:Kristen.K.Zortman{at}jpl.nasa.gov
with your NAME, ADDRESS, GRADES you taught last year, SCHOOL
DISTRICT, and NUMBER OF YEARS TEACHING EXPERIENCE.)

THE DEADLINE TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS PROJECT IS AUGUST 1ST.

Please forward this message to any math teachers you think might want
to participate in the project.

If you have any questions or comments, please send them to
Kristen.K.Zortman{at}jpl.nasa.gov mailto:Kristen.K.Zortman{at}jpl.nasa.gov.

Thank you,

Rebecca Knudsen
Education Research Specialist
NASA SSE Education Forum

Art Hammon
Pre-college Education Specialist
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Kristen Zortman
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow
California Institute of Technology

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