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Mapping the Moon: Simulating LOLA in the Classroom |
Mapping the Moon, how exactly do we explore the moon? Two Web Seminars explain the art of lunar mapping, remote sensing and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The first seminar took place on Tuesday, April 22 with presenters Susan Hoban, Senior Research Scientist at the University Maryland Baltimore County’s Goddard Earth Science and Technology (GEST) Center and Don Higdon, Senior Instructional Designer at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s GEST Center. This presentation focused on the topic of topographic maps, the concept of resolution and the LOLA instrument aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The second seminar took place on Tuesday, May 13 and this session allowed participants to program a robot to move from its landing site on ‘lunar land’ to another predetermined site. Working in teams, the participants designed instructions for the robots then worked with presenters to see if their instructions worked. These seminars were designed for educators of grades 4-12.
Each web seminar is a unique, stand-alone, program. Archives of these web seminars
and the presenters’ PowerPoint presentations will be available on this web page. Learn
more about the features of the Web
Seminar and read answers to frequently asked questions
from participants.
Schedule
Web Seminar I
Date: Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Time: 6:30-8:00 p.m. Eastern
Topics: Lunar exploration, mapping, remote sensing, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission
Presenters: Dr. Susan Hoban
and Don Higdon
Web Seminar II
Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Time: 6:30-8:00 p.m. Eastern
Topics: Lunar exploration, mapping, remote sensing, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission
Presenters: Dr. Susan Hoban
and Don Higdon
For more information contact webseminars@nsta.org
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Underwritten in part by NASA |