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NASA’s Jim Stofan on DIY rockets and the sixteen dialects of finch

Q: What started Jim Stofan on the path of science education that eventually landed him at the DC headquarters of the country’s premier space agency?
A: The story begins with a bang–and a tweet.
From a young age, Jim was fascinated with rockets. But it was a seed-eating songbird that first sparked his interest in science.
Now NASA’s […]

Posted in Topics: Earth and Space Science, Ecology, Educator Profiles, Outdoor and Nature

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Is water alive? Go outside and find out

Educator Cheryl McCallum talks about one of her favorite SMILE outdoor activities, and how to make it work even if you don’t have “an outdoor space teeming with living things.”
These days, I work in a museum. But before that I was an “outdoor educator,” taking 5th graders on hikes through the East Texas Piney […]

Posted in Topics: Earth and Space Science, Ecology, Outdoor and Nature

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Teaching to the oil spill (& helping with a solution)

Since April 20, people around the world have watched as millions of gallons of oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico. We tune in to news accounts of oil-covered pelicans, tar balls on beaches, and underwater “plumes” that may be even more damaging that the oil washing up on our shorelines. An entire ecosystem, not […]

Posted in Topics: Citizen Science, Ecology, Engineering and Technology, General, Scientific Ethics

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