Explore Solar System and Beyond: Investigating Strange New Worlds
Thursday 03/12/2020
6:00 pm ET (3:00pm PT)
FREE 1-hour Webinar
Educators in Grades 6-12

The NASA STEM Educator Professional Development Collaborative at Texas State University is providing a 1-hour webinar.

Learn to use real NASA data to explore how telescopes -- especially the Kepler, Spitzer and TESS space telescopes -- search for planets orbiting stars beyond our Sun. The NASA STEM activities presented investigate how to use telescope data and Kepler’s Third Law to interpret data and to construct graphs to determine if a planet beyond our solar system is Earth-like.
 
 

Steve Culivan is a semi-retired NASA STEM Education Professional Development Specialist. During his thirty-one plus year career with NASA Education, he was assigned to the Kennedy Space Center, Marshall Space Flight Center and the Stennis Space Center. Mr. Culivan developed and provided NASA STEM online and face-to-face professional development programs for in-service, pre-service, informal and university 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 STEM lessons and lesson guides. Prior to his NASA career, 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.