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In the early 21st century, the Teacher in Space project was revived in the private sector. The development of reusable, suborbital launch vehicles by commercial companies makes it possible for nonprofit groups to contemplate sending large numbers of teachers into space. The new Teachers in Space program began in 2005.
The Educator Astronaut Project is a NASA program to educate students and spur excitement in science, technology, engineering, math, and space exploration.It is a successor to the Teacher in Space Project of the 1980s, which NASA cancelled after the death of teacher-astronaut Christa McAuliffe in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster amid concerns about the risk of sending civilians into space.
Sharon Christa McAuliffe (née Corrigan; September 2, 1948 – January 28, 1986) was an American teacher and astronaut from Concord, New Hampshire who died on the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, where she was serving as a payload specialist.
Barbara Radding Morgan (born November 28, 1951) is an American teacher and a former NASA astronaut.She participated in the Teacher in Space Project as backup to Christa McAuliffe for the 1986 ill-fated STS-51-L mission of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
Cubes in Space. NASA started an annual competition in 2014 named "Cubes in Space". [263] It is jointly organized by NASA and the global education company I Doodle Learning, with the objective of teaching school students aged 11–18 to design and build scientific experiments to be launched into space on a NASA rocket or balloon. On June 21 ...
Investigations in Numbers, Data, and Space is a K–5 mathematics curriculum, developed at TERC [1] in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The curriculum is often referred to as Investigations or simply TERC. Patterned after the NCTM standards for mathematics, it is among the most widely used of the new reform mathematics curricula.
Learning space or learning setting refers to a physical setting for a learning environment, a place in which teaching and learning occur. [1] The term is commonly used as a more definitive alternative to " classroom ," [ 2 ] but it may also refer to an indoor or outdoor location, either actual or virtual.
Open educational resources (OER) [1] are teaching, learning, and research materials intentionally created and licensed to be free for the end user to own, share, and in most cases, modify. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The term "OER" describes publicly accessible materials and resources for any user to use, re-mix, improve, and redistribute under some licenses ...