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It's no longer enough for high school seniors to choose between college and work; today's students need preparation for both. In California, and throughout the country, schools are rejuvenating classes once known as vocational education and integrating career skills with academics. Get a close-up look at new models of career and technical education, and see how they work.
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NASA Resources Enrich STEM Curricula at Forest Lake Elementary
Being a NASA Explorer School allows Forest Lake Elementary to deepen the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) curricula with technology tools and resources.
Buy DVD | Download | Credits | Release Date: 05/03/2010
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Produced, Written and Directed by
- Ken Ellis
Editor
- Karen Sutherland
Associate Producer
- Doug Keely
Camera Crew
- Michael Epstein
- Perry Goodfriend
Video Programming Producer
- Amy Erin Borovoy
Narrator
- Michael Pritchard
Original Music
- Ed Bogas
- © 2010
- The George Lucas Educational Foundation
- All rights reserved.
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Editor's note: Though NASA is not currently accepting applications for new Explorer Schools, they offer STEM curricula and additional resources for students and teachers on their educational website.
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While the NASA Explorer Schools program is no longer active, the Agency maintains an Educational Resource Center (http://education.ssc.nasa.gov/erc.asp) that provides free resources to teachers. According to its website (http://education.ssc.nasa.gov/nes.asp) “NASA Office of Education maintains its commitment to investing in programs and activities that inspire and engage students, educators, families and communities in the excitement and discovery of exploration.”
Other NASA resources can be found at We Choose The Moon (http://wechoosethemoon.org/) which won the 2010 Webby for Education, and Rocketrek (http://www.rocketrek.com).
Awesome!
How cool would it be to attend that school? It's such a shame they could no longer fund this program. What an amazing thing it was for those who got to experience it.
NASA Explorer School Program Re-Opened!
Heard through the grapevine that the new NASA Explorer Schools program opens on September 1st, 2010. It may not be the same as shown in the video, but it sounds like NASA is ramping up to offer more resources to schools virtually.
More information here!