NASA STEM: Wild Fires: Using Computational Thinking to Solve Real World Problems

NASA STEM: Wild Fires: Using Computational Thinking to Solve Real World Problems
Monday 02/22/2021
1:00 pm ET
FREE 1-hour Webinar
Educators in Grades 3-12

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

Today's NASA satellites find fires as they start, observe how they burn, and map the scars they leave behind. Explore using measurement and area skills to learn about remote detection of wildfires from space. After detecting mock wildfires with mobile devices, students then study satellite-data visualizations to determine the start dates of actual California wildfires. Learn how scientists assess wildfires using remote sensing. Students then use some of the same techniques to solve grade-level appropriate math problems.

Susan Kohler is the current Education Professional Development Specialist at Glenn Research Center and serves the states of Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and Minnesota. She has more than 25 years of progressively responsible K-12 educational leadership experience. She has served as Asst. Principal, Principal, Curriculum Director, Math/Science Consultant and Asst. Superintendent. Susan taught science for 13 years at the high school level. Her expertise in STEM and professional development is combined with her knowledge of new technology trends and innovative instructional strategies. Susan holds a Master’s in Education Administration from Bowling Green State College as well as a Bachelors degree of Science in Biological Sciences with the emphasis on Neurophysiology from Ramapo College in New Jersey.