Aeronautics: Forces and Motion of Flight
Thursday 03/08/2018
9:00 am CT
FREE 5-hour Workshop
Educators in Grades 4-8

The NASA Stennis Space Center Office of Education is providing a 5-hour educator professional development STEM workshop.

Aeronautics: Forces and Motion of Flight

Date: March 08, 2018

Time: 9:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. CT (30-minute lunch)

Audience: In-service, pre-service, home school and informal STEM educators of grades 4-8

Location: Infinity Science Center (Map); Classroom B (upstairs)

Infinity has a cafe to order lunch on site, or you can bring your own lunch and snacks.


Aeronautics is the first “A” in NASA and has been a large part of what NASA does for more than 50 years. Explore the forces and motion of flying things with a wide variety of hands-on aerospace STEM activities, lesson plans and online resources available for educators and students. Also, learn about some of the many aeronautics technologies developed from NASA research. NASA is with you when you fly. 


Online pre-registration is required to participate.

Registration will be limited to 30 educators.

Registration will close when 30 educators are registered, or March 4, 2018.

CEU's will be offered for 5.0 hours of attendance.



 






 

Steve Culivan is the NASA STEM Education Professional Development Collaborative Specialist at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. Mr. Culivan develops and provides NASA STEM online and face-to-face professional development programs for in-service, pre-service and informal educators. Mr. Culivan was the Principal Investigator for two International Space Station (ISS) in-flight education demonstrations. He additionally developed and co-developed several NASA curriculum products. Prior to his current twenty-eight year career with NASA Education, Mr. Culivan taught middle school Earth and Space Science, life science, English, art and coached several sports. He holds a current Louisiana teaching certificate in science and English. Mr. Culivan received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Education from Louisiana Tech University and a Masters of Science degree in Education from Oklahoma State University.