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Page 148 - Centers (RERCs) offer more educators access to NASA educational materials. NASA has formed partnerships with universities, museums, and other educational institutions to serve as RERCs in many states.
Page 147 - Videoconferences— During the school year, a series of educational programs is delivered by satellite to teachers across the country. The content of each videoconference varies, but all cover aeronautics or space science topics of interest to the educational community. The broadcasts are interactive; a number is flashed across the bottom of the screen, and viewers can call collect to ask questions or take part in a discussion. For further information, contact...
Page 148 - Centers (TRCs) contain a wealth of information for educators: publications, reference books, slides, audio cassettes, videocassettes, telelecture programs, computer programs, lesson plans and activities, and lists of publications available from government and nongovernment sources.
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Page 148 - Because each NASA Field Center has its own areas of expertise, no two TRCs are exactly alike. Phone calls are welcome if you are unable to visit the TRC that serves your geographic area. A list of the centers and the...
Page 14 - Permian event, which, unlike the extinction of the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous Period 65 million years ago, shows no evidence of a catastrophic impact to the Earth by a meteorite.
Page 145 - The process by which nature converts water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates, using sunlight as the source of energy through the chlorophyll-containing cells in green plants.
Page 61 - ... may have led to the extinction of the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous and the extinction of many radiolarians at the end of the Eocene.
Page 146 - Solar wind is a term for the stream of charged particles (mainly ionized hydrogen) moving outward from the Sun at velocities in the range of 300-500 kilometers per second. * Schwenk and Sadin, op. cit., p. 4. vaporized substances may be found in the permanently shaded areas of the Moon near the poles.9 Further exploration of the Moon, especially via an unmanned lunar polar orbiter spacecraft, may increase...