THEMIS E/PO November 12, 2003 Nahide Craig Laura Peticolas

1. THEMIS E/PONovember 12, 2003Nahide CraigLaura Peticolas E/PO-1

2. Coordination and Dissemination Formal Informal E/PO Goals and Overview • THEMIS E/PO is fully aligned with NASA OSS education goals: • Enhance the quality of science, math and technology education for pre-college level • Share the excitement of space science discoveries with the public • Help create our 21st century scientific and technical work force • THEMIS team is committed to E/PO: Bester, Bonnell, Lin, Carlson, Russell and the PI Angelopoulos are involved in public talks and science validation (cont.) E/PO-2

3. Coordination and Dissemination Formal Informal E/PO Goals and Overview • GEONS (Geomagnetic Event Observation Network by Students) Science-based classroom hands-on activities that support inquiry and access utilizing THEMIS data • New LHS GEMS site at NV, Carson City School District w/ Western Nevada Community College – Teacher professional development programs • UCB/SSL, UCLA, IMAGE, FAST and 8 NASA Space Grant Consortia E/PO sites and their affiliates (> 113 sites) • Northern Lights Planetarium Show with THEMIS science • THEMIS E/PO website • Cornerstone Evaluation Associates Designs THEMIS-E/PO evaluation effort Provides both formative and summative evaluation E/PO-3

4. Formal Evaluation E/PO Partners E/PO-4 Informal Coordinationand Dissemination

5. Coordination and Dissemination Formal Informal Formal Education • 10 Northern Latitude Sub-Auroral States - 8 Space Science Consortia • Ground Based Magnetometer School Sites • UCLA Installs the Magnetometers- provides users manuals • 3 New sites w/ All-Sky Cameras and GBMs in Alaska • Astronomy Café- MagNet expansion • Student Observation Network of SECEF • UCB SEGway Program • Collaborates with the GEONS Project • Develops SEC Theme educational materials • Collaboration with SECEF for K-5 grades • GEMS Teacher Training LHS w/special focus, targeting • Chicano and Native-American Teachers • National Teacher Professional Workshops E/PO-5

6. Coordination and Dissemination Formal Informal Formal Education ProgramsGeomagnetic Event Observation Network by Students (GEONS) UNIQUE opportunity for THEMIS to entice students about NASA SEC The network of the 10 teachers, students, at E/PO magnetometer sites together with other students who participate using the web and monitoring the magnetic activity is called the Geomagnetic Event Observation Network by Students (GEONS). Schools will be selected by state-wide competition and will have the following selection criteria: • Commitment of schools – acceptance of the program by the administration • Longitudinal spread in each 10 states provide wide geographic coverage • Local infrastructure- Electric Power, Internet Connection, • Potential for reaching large community of students/teachers • Site’s potential for discoveries – away from highways, large trucks, rural sites UCLA provides technical users manuals along with GMAG unit • Will install 5 Magnetometers with computers in Summer ’04 and 5 in Summer ’05 • Will provide ground data processing, data access, archiving procedures, and data display on school computer. E/PO-6

7. Coordination and Dissemination Formal Informal Formal Education ProgramsGeomagnetic Event Observation Network by Students (GEONS) • Astronomy Café • rewrites the users manual for school usage, including a description of the data display in appropriate language • develops guides/materials aligned with NSES • leverages IMAGE’s MagNet with existing school networks • participates in the GEONS teacher workshops • The first GEONS workshop for these schools@UCB in Summer 2004 and second @SACNAS in Summer 2005 • Summer 2004: experimenting, testing, setting up a web-archive • Summer 2005: regarding classroom experiences and revising the classroom resources • Additional GBOs to E/PO sites (cont..) E/PO-7

8. Coordination and Dissemination Formal Informal Formal Education ProgramsGeomagnetic Event ObservationNetwork byStudents (GEONS) • New three Ground Based Observatory sites in Alaska containing an all-sky camera, a magnetometer, and a computer. • AK teachers will be part of the both the GBO science team and the E/PO GEONS team • Mission GBO science team is funding this addition to E/PO Kiana Fort Yukon 65 mlat McGrath 60 mlat Gakona E/PO-8

9. Coordination and Dissemination Formal Informal INFORMAL EDUCATION • Mission Science • Aurorae Gallery • Activities • News &Events • In The Classroom • The Latest • About Us http://www.ideum.com/work-ucepo/themis/ E/PO-9

10. Coordination and Dissemination Formal Informal INFORMAL EDUCATION • Northern Lights Planetarium Show Distributed > 100 sites • Updated version with THEMIS – Science • Will be distributed by ASTC • As a small planetarium program, we can reach a larger audience • Participation in the SECEF “Big Events” • -Venus Transit (June 2004): analogy to THEMIS 5 satellite orbit alignments • -Ancient Observatories (Summer 2005) E/PO-10

11. Coordination and Dissemination Formal Informal Reaching Underserved Groups • Chicano and Native-American Teachers at Tribal Colleges/ High Schools as Ground Based Magnetometer sites (GEONS) • MT, SD, ND, NV • Tap into SACNAS Teacher Workshops - Field-test THEMIS materials w/ teachers in El Paso, TX provide feedback ( Prof. Lopez) • National Teacher Professional Workshops • Rural Teachers reached through GEMS site in Nevada, launched through THEMIS E/PO E/PO-11

12. Coordination and Dissemination Formal Informal Dissemination • SACNAS Partnership (Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans) • Leveraging from SECEF, IMAGE and FAST E/PO programs • 8 Space Grant Consortia and their affiliates (113 institutions) • Student Observation Network (S.O.N.) of SECEF would like to include our program. • The S.O.N. program guides students through tracking solar storms from start to finish. • They need GM and GBO data!! • NASA Broker/Facilitators and other National Networks • NSTA-National, Regional and Local Meetings/Workshops E/PO-12

13. Formal Evaluation Implementation Plan E/PO-13 Informal Coordinationand Dissemination

14. Coordination and Dissemination Formal Informal The organizational structure of the E/PO effort UCLA GBO installation, User Manual E/PO-14

15. UCB E/PO HERITAGE • EUVE ’94 • SEGway ’96 • FAST ’99 • RHESSI ‘98 • CHIPS ’00 • STEREO ’01 • WISE ‘02 SEGway-SFUSD Teachers ‘01 FAST E/PO Web ‘99 CHIPS public events and lectures ‘02 CHIPS Lithograph for Educators ‘02 SEGway K-12 web lessons-’96 RHESSI-Exploratorium Partnerships Live Total Eclipse web-cast ‘99 THEMIS Scientist involvement in Public Outreach- Cal Day ‘02 E/PO-15 WISE RHESSI Solar Camp at LHS ‘00

16. Coordination and Dissemination Formal Informal Summary and Conclusion • THEMIS E/PO • Builds on successful efforts of reliable E/PO Heritage • Secures strong, capable and experienced partnerships • Uses awesome ‘aurora’ data • Reaches underserved communities with technology tools • Has well-evaluated program • AND • Promises to excite and inspire both educators and broad • audiences, motivates the next generation of scientists • and engineers. E/PO-16