In the first 40 minutes, Marc and Scott hope to cover these topics:

Slide 1

Sharing NASA is a series of projects in which:

• NASA science/technology projects become accessible to students
• Focus on people (not data); capture enthusiasm
  • share info: bios, Field Journals of daily activities
  • facilitate interactions: live chats and Email Q&A
• Projects include lesson plans, student publishing; sometimes TV
• Peer-to-peer collaborations

Slide 2

Project goals for classrooms include:

• Students experience the thrill of real science
• Kids collaborate with others (as do scientists)
• Workplace diversity: race, gender, education level
• Interacting with experts generates excitement
• Teachers meet others with shared interests
• New network users gain positive reinforcement

Slide 3

Goals for project organizers include:

• NASA scientists enjoy sharing their vocations with interested amateurs.
• Find ways to avoid overburdening the experts
• Minimize overhead for project management
• Share lessons learned
• Help other organizations mount similar efforts

Slide 4

These projects are teacher driven and go beyond science. A story about Clyde Tombaugh illustrates these points.

Slide 5

Past projects

• Over the past four years, we've done more then a dozen projects. While no longer interactive, the archive of past projects is still interesting.

• Shuttle Team Online: Go behind-the-scenes with NASA's space shuttle and space station teams.
• Live From Mars: Explore Mars with scientists and spacecraft engineers.
• Women of NASA: Extraordinary women serve as science/technology role models for young girls.

• NeurOn: Join a space shuttle mission dedicated to brain research.
• Aero Design Team Online: Visit NASA aeronautics, including the world's best flight simulators, huge windtunnels, cool test planes and speedy supercomputers.

Slide 6

To get involved, please

• Visit the Web sites by starting at the Sharing NASA overview.

• Join the mailling list for each project. Send an email to
  listmanager@quest.arc.nasa.gov

  In the message body, write these words:
  subscribe sharing-nasa

Slide 7

We've found that these projects are valued by teachers

• Results in excited, motivated students
• Provides opportunity to integrate curriculum
• Provides unique insight into real world
• Enables new network users to have positive first experience