Aeronautics -- Come Fly with Us: How High Is It?
Thursday 01/19/2017
6:00 pm ET (3:00pm PT)
FREE 1-hour Webinar
Educators in Grades 5-8

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

Explore the NASA "How High Is It?" lesson guide and additional online resources to create scale models of our atmosphere, the layers of Earth’s atmosphere, the altitudes of NASA aircraft and spacecraft and natural and artificial satellites. Also, develop number sense by representing scale factors in terms of ratios, decimals, and percentages. See how high you can go in your classroom.



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.