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3 Space Science Education Curriculum and Materials
Pages 19-22

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... DeVore then explained that the federal government's National Science and Technology Council created a 5-year strategic plan that established five priority science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education investment areas:1 • Improve STEM instruction; • Increase and sustain youth and public engagement in STEM; • Enhance STEM experiences for undergraduate students; 1  Committee on STEM Education, Federal Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)
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... The organizing committee developed the following guiding questions to provide focus to the panel discussion: • How do the instructional strategies advocated for in the NASA education programs match the Vision for Science Education described in the NRC Framework for K-12 Science Education? • How can NASA best encourage and support teachers to use NASA education resources in the classroom?
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... "NASA education is someplace where teachers meet scientists," he said, "and that collision is not always pretty." Mac Low also criticized NASA education materials. "Providing an activity, which is the predominant thing I find on NASA websites, is not a lesson plan," he said.
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... I am concerned that folks who have not worked on any of the NASA Science Mission Directorate education content over the past 20 years will put in a proposal for a radically different kind of education program, and what has been developed will be abandoned," he said. An audience member then asked the panel, "How do your teachers find curricular resources that they would like to use -- as an actual principal talking with your teachers?
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