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Heat Transfer: MESSENGER—My Angle on Cooling
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During this web seminar educators learned how to use lessons related to NASA’s exciting
MESSENGER mission to Mercury. The Staying Cool lesson explores the basic concepts
of light, heat, and energy to investigate how spacecraft such as MESSENGER can study
planets using light and radiation without being damaged by the harsh high-temperature,
high-radiation environment in which they operate. Participants of this web seminar
discovered strategies for guiding students through two hands-on activities that
demonstrate the effects of distance and angle of inclination on the absorption of
energy.
Details
This web seminar is part of a series of electronic professional development experiences
sponsored by the NASA Explorer Schools (NES) project. NASA Explorer Schools invests
in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics educators to inspire and engage
a whole generation of future scientists, engineers and technicians that NASA needs
to continue our journey. NES gives educators of grades 4-12 free access to NASA’s
people, missions, research, and facilities. We take the work out of searching through
thousands of materials on the NASA website and provide a comprehensive set of teaching
materials for dozens of STEM concepts. 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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