NCTAF-NASA Learning Teams!

NCTAF, the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and two Maryland school districts have "launched" the NASA 21st Century Learning Studios to improve Earth Science!

The Learning Studios engage one of NASA Goddard’s most valuable resources – its personnel – in Learning Teams that become professional development partnerships. Teachers are learning how to engage their students in activities that draw on NASA content and the discoveries emerging from NASA missions, while receiving continuous embedded professional development to improve content knowledge and pedagogy. NASA Goddard professionals will apply their scientific expertise and passion as content experts, mentors, and coaches, working shoulder-to-shoulder with high school teachers and students (virtually as well as face-to-face). Students in these Learning Studios engage in deep, extended science inquiry to improve their understanding and achievement - and are introduced to individuals with experience in all types of careers in science.

Read the full project brief posted in the right column!