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MY NASA DATA: Solar Cell Energy Availability from Around
the Country
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Participants of this program learned how to engage students with the question: Where
in the United States would solar panels be most effective? In the Solar Cell Energy
Availability from Around the Country activity, students use NASA data to determine
areas of the country that are most likely to produce solar energy by analyzing differences
in incoming solar radiation graphs. Seminar attendees found out how to guide students
in analyzing overlay plots and comparing them to difference plots with data from
NASA satellites.
Details
This web seminar is part of a series of electronic professional development experiences
sponsored by the NASA Explorer Schools (NES) project. NES is NASA's classroom-based
gateway for middle school (grades 4-8) and high school (grades 9-12) classrooms
providing authentic learning experiences inspired by NASA's unique missions. NES
provides free teaching and learning resources that promote student engagement in
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and opportunities for teachers
and students to participate in NASA's mission of research and discovery through
inquiry-based experiences directly related to the work of NASA scientists and engineers.
For additional information about the NASA Explorer Schools project, visit http://explorerschools.nasa.gov.
See when other
NASA Explorer Schools Web Seminars are Scheduled
For more information contact webseminars@nsta.org
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Sponsored by NASA
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