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Our Favorite Projects for Summertime STEAM
We're launching into summer by highlighting 15 of our favorite summertime projects for students, including a Mars student challenge you can do again and again.
May 14, 2024
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Doing the Math on Why We Have Leap Day
Leap day, Feb. 29, happens every four years because of a mismatch between the calendar year and Earth's orbit. Learn how it works, and get students engaged in leap day STEM.
Jan. 16, 2024
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Spend the School Year With NASA-JPL
Make educational connections to NASA and JPL happenings all year long with this calendar of upcoming events and links to educational resources you can use to explore STEM with us throughout the 2023-2024 school year.
Aug. 17, 2023
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Working With the Next Wave of Science Teachers
Four pre-service teachers at Cal Poly Pomona are developing their skills in lesson design and delivery as they study Earth science concepts and prepare for graduation.
April 3, 2023
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How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need?
While world record holders may have memorized more than 70,000 digits of pi, a JPL engineer explains why you really only need a tiny fraction of that for most calculations – even at NASA.
Oct. 24, 2022
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A Lesson for Every Day of the School Year
With 180 lessons in our online catalog, you can explore Earth and space with us all year long. We show you how with this handy NASA-JPL school year calendar.
Aug. 24, 2022
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Math Connections Take Students Far
A Los Angeles math teacher gets students engaged with connections to science and exploring the human side of math, such as how leaders inspire change in their communities.
May 31, 2022
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Back in the Classroom and Getting Creative With STEAM
This fourth-grade teacher is finding creative ways to get her students back into the flow of classroom learning with the help of STEAM education resources from JPL.
April 25, 2022
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24 STEM Lessons You Can Quickly Deploy in the Classroom
Calling all teachers pressed for time, substitutes looking for classroom activities that don't require a lot of prep, and others hoping to keep students learning in especially chaotic times: We've got a new collection of lessons and activities that you can quickly deploy.
Jan. 26, 2022
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The Best New STEM Education Resources from NASA-JPL in 2021
In 2021, we added nearly 80 STEM education resources to our online catalog oflessons,activities,articles, andvideosfor educators, students, and families. The resources feature NASA's latest missions exploring Earth, the Moon, Mars, asteroids, the Solar System and the universe beyond. Here are the 10 resources our audiences visited most this year.
Dec. 6, 2021
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JPL Internship Program Expanding Diversity in STEM
Five years in, a JPL initiative forging relationships with students and faculty at historically Black colleges and universities continues expanding its reach, hosting 48 interns this year.
Sept. 9, 2021
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Beaming NASA Science Into the Classroom in the COVID Era and Beyond
Jayme Wisdom has been teaching for 15 years at the Vaughn Charter System in Pacoima, California. She has taught eighth-grade science for most of her career but switched to high school biology for the first time this year.
April 2, 2021

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