Archived Nuggets

Archived Nuggets

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A nugget is a one page snapshot of an event that impacted learners using NASA Science-funded experts, content, or authentic experiences.

February 2021

My NASA Data Presents to the Science Education Council
Researcher Sanaz Esmaeili crawls through a lava tube in California to map its size and shape.
Sample Air Quality Investigation Poster

January 2021

2020 Center of Science and Industry (COSI) Virtual Science Festival

December 2020

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My NASA Data Presents to NASA’s Climate Change Research Initiative- Educator Ambassador Program
Virtual Programs with NASA Scientists for Public Libraries

November 2020

Three GLOBE Campaigns Present at the Latin America Conference
Earth to Sky Climate Science & Communication Workshop
GLOBE Mission Earth Partner
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Earth to Sky Brings NASA Earth Science to the National Association for Interpretation

October 2020

Astromaterials SMEs Inspire & Share OSIRIS-REx TAG Details
NASA SEES Alumni Win National Google Hackathon
Evaluating the Effectiveness of the NASA eClips 4D Program

September 2020

Crop of a photo gallery of Girl Scout Badging Event Session Facilitators & Activity Leads.
Three people in orange parkas with a telescope at the South Pole.
NASA SEES 2020 Internship: Mosquito Mappers
Slide with Patrick Taylor, Wanda Hathaway, and Joselyn Hathaway over a teal cloud background.

August 2020

Two Years* of the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign
LaRC Plays a Major Role in GME Elementary GLOBE Hybrid Professional Development
KITE-FLYING AND REMOTE SENSING WITH BOYS & GIRLS CLUB AND 4-H LEADERS IN LEWISTOWN, MONTANA
INFINISCOPE WORKSHOP INQUIRY-BASED, ACTIVE, REMOTE LEARNING USING UDL
NASA kits to the Blackfeet Nation, MT
Video screenshot of the Sedona landforms with a large Play button.
During a group webcam chat, teachers use their hands to dance.
North Dakota Space Grant Consortium logo
Discover Space Girl Scouts patch featuring colorful cartoon planets.

July 2020

Perseverance Rover sidewalk chalk drawing
MY NASA DATA PRESENTS EARTH SYSTEM DATA EXPLORER TO 53 EDUCATORS AT ESIP WORKSHOP
Accenture Holds International GLOBE Observer Clouds Competition
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Venn diagram of 3 blue raindrops (content, visuals, data).
SMOKY MOUNTAINS STEM COLLABORATIVE
Aerial view of the Mars surface

June 2020

FISKE-UNIV. OF COLORADO EXPLORATIONS VIDEOS JUNE REPORT
NESSP ROADS ON MARS FREESTYLE CHALLENGE
Three cards entitled
Slide titled
Citizen Scientist Carmen Mandel
Screenshot of a Zoom meeting.

May 2020

2020 Center of Science and Industry (COSI) Virtual Science Festival
NASA Earth System Science Award Webinars
Heat maps of the Gulf of Maine from 1986, 1996, 2006, and 2016.
Engaging Ohio Teachers in GLOBE and NASA Resources
University Engineering Students Present their GLOBE Instrumentation Projects Virtually
Spring into Green
Screenshot of six webinar attendees
Science project board entitled
Screenshot of a 16 member Zoom call.

April 2020

A hand holding a tinfoil-wrapped tube up to a webcam.
Data Literacy Experiences in the Earth Sciences for Preservice STEM Teachers
Spring into Urban Heat Islands with My NASA Data
Astronomy Magazine Interview for Citizen Science Month
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education (SITE) Virtual Conference
A bearded man uses scissors while a blonde woman smiles for the camera.
Girl Scouts Connected
GLOBE Clouds Family Guide
Solar System Ambassadors and Social Distancing

March 2020

NASA@ My Library March 2020 Nugget
Encouraging Kids To Get Outside with GLOBE During School Closures
Patron Experience Pilot (PEP) Training: A Librarian Workshop in Preparation for a Year Long Project on Interest Development

February 2020

The Impact of a NASA Subject Matter Expert (SME) Visit to Grade 4 Students
Thumbnail with a photo of ice and water on the left and details for a NASA STEAM webinar on the right.
Martian lander made out of paper and pipe cleaners.
Kevin Czajkowski & eight GLOBE Mission EARTH teachers posing in front of a projector screen.
Three people posing in front of a Science Activation booth.
A teacher and an elementary school student examine soils on a tray.
Annie Jump Cannon and Henrietta Leavitt cosplayers looking at a lunar globe.

January 2020

Elizabeth Joyner presenting via webcam next to a My NASA Data graphic.
Explore Science: Earth & Space Toolkits
Watershed Management Undergraduates Mentor

December 2019

NIA Collaborates with Virginia Association of Science Teachers for Teacher Professional Development Workshop
NASA eClips Winter 2019 Newsletter Highlights New NASA Resources and Upcoming STEM Events
Astronaut Doug Wheelock shakes a young man's hand.
A man and woman hold paper masks in front of their faces.
A man in a white shirt and hat addresses a group of teachers outside.
A group of people gathered in front of the Earth to Sky Partnership booth.

November 2019

Earth to Sky 2-day Climate Science and Communication Workshop
NASA GLOBE Fall Clouds Challenge receives over 45,000 observations from volunteer citizen scientists
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A group of people on the steps of the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
Seated college students listening at a session.
Hikers on a lush, sunny trail.
Four people chatting around a table with three laptops
A man and woman holding their hands up in front of the NASA Langley meatball sculpture
Large projector screen displaying a slide entitled
Elizabeth Joyner presenting via webcam next to a My NASA Data graphic.
Group photo in front of wall with NASA Goddard signage
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Trena Ferrell seated at a display table.
Two students on the floor with a BB-8 robot.
Dr. Michael Evans and college students in a planetarium

October 2019

Apollo 11 landing site recreation on a grassy field.
Six people stand in front of a purple skyline.
Mendenhall Glacier
Molly Taylor near a geocache site on Mount Blackmore.
A young participant preparing to test out his lunar lander, aiming for the Moon's south pole.
Eight people pose in front of a moon and astronaut backdrop.
A person wearing goggles and holding a tarp in the Maumee River.

September 2019

Students preparing to launch water bottle rockets from the field.
Dr. Edgard Rivera-Valentín speaking to children with VR headsets.
Two girl scouts use a telescope outside.
Peder Nelson holding a microphone and pointing to a projector slide
Dr. Sharon Bowers helps a young participant create moon maps with bubbles and paint at NASA’s Langley Youth Day
A big and little brother proudly display their successful Mars Lander

August 2019

NASA’s Universe of Learning & Girls Who Code
Children in lime green t-shirts at display tables.
College students flying kites on a lawn.
Group photo of AZGA summer institute participants. Photo taken from above and participants standing on carpeting with Mars crater images printed on it.
Kelly Christopher holds an Apollo 11 model.
Screenshot of slide with multiple smaller slides

July 2019

A Virtual Trip to the Stars with NASA /YWCA & Rosie’s Girls
JFK Library Space Fest
Collage of young students participating in hands-on activities
Three students in front of a projector screen and laptop. On the displays are a bearded man via webcam.
Exhibitions at Lynn Meadows Discovery Center in Gulfport, MS.
A seated young woman holds a VR device to her eyes.
A young girl has her hand in a spacesuit glove at an Apollo booth.
Interns pose outside of the Lunar Curation Lab where Jeremy Kent poses with lunar samples.
Jerry Woodfill holds an Apollo 11 model in front of a webcam.
A group of people on the steps of the Syun-Ichi Akasofu Building.
A handful of people under a tent with a green star projector.

June 2019

Infiniscope team member presenting Infiniscope learning experiences and teaching network on Hyperwall display within NASA booth. Audience seating filled with interested librarians.
GO Oklahoma!
SSTP International Collaborations
STEM Enhancement in Earth Science
People gathered at an outdoor seating area
Artist's rendition of Resource Prospector
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Four high school students sit in a science classroom.
Total Solar Eclipse

May 2019

A young woman builds planets with Play-Doh for a boy.
A group of people fill a set of stairs outside.
NASA at Odyssey of the Mind World Finals

April 2019

Jessica and Leslie look at white cards on their table.
Left: Sharon Bowers demonstrates an app to a young girl. Right: Girl with her finger on a spinning multicolored wheel at an exhibition booth.
Three women look at poster boards titled

March 2019

A young girl points at a laptop screen for another girl.
Troy Cline, Carolyn Ng, Lani Sasser, and Eddie Gonzales pose on a state in front of a SITE banner.
A woman seated at an exhibition booth points to a spot on a lunar globe.
Woman holding a rock.
Sharon Bowers talks to a man at the eClips exhibit booth.
Photo of teacher and student
Group photo in front of a banner that says

February 2019

Carolyn Ng, Tina Harte, and Christine Shupla pose at a NASA Science Activation booth.
Two scientists posing in white protective clothing and masks.
Joan Harper-Neely poses with the NASA eClips Spotlites exhibit table.

November 2018

Local educators analyze “ice core samples” with a NASA eClips activity.

September 2018

A woman wearing a VR headset holds the earth in her hands.

July 2018

A woman stands in front of a wall of screens reading
A woman takes a tablet selfie in front of a green screen.

June 2018

Nine people pose on a baseball field.
Children looking up in a planetarium.
Four people pose with their display table.

May 2018

Students and teachers pose using sign language.
People look through paper tubes with one eye.
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Animated image of two people looking up at huge planets.
A woman holds a globe in front of children.
Two men holding a Webby award.
Girl Scouts in pink sweatshirts and teal vests at an activity booth
Betsy McAllister poses with an eClips/Spotlite display table.
Two women look at a young boy in front of a display table outdoors.
College students pose with a big kite.
Dr. Czajkowski presents to elementary school students.
A handful of people look at an NIA collage on the wall.
An elementary school student uses polarized sunglasses to test a plastic sample.
Two high schoolers pose in front of their project.
Educators became certified as GLOBE Teachers making Cloud observations using the GLOBE Observer app.

April 2018

A little girl holds a dry-erase board next to a man in a green polo.
The interaction of solar winds with Earth’s magnetosphere visualized in OpenSpace.
Seven students standing in front of a wall.
Map of the U.S. with red and yellow pins. The red represents
A group of people hold colorful signs that say thanks in different language.
Andrea Jones shows a rock to two students.
Six people pose behind a NASA display table.
NASA-themed library kit displayed on a table
Four people hold wooden sticks with pieces of paper up to ceiling lights.
Incarcerated men listen to an astrobiology lecture.
NASA Goddard's Moon table/booth
Three smartphones being used as microscopes
A woman holds a phone up to animated clouds.
A woman and girl examine a globe.
A woman stands in front of a large screen of images.
Dr. Jonathan Lunine converses with a man in a red scarf.
Dr. Michael Evans speaks to a student in front of a planetarium
A woman stands in front of a large blue screen filled with white dots.
A man and woman speak in front of an audience.

March 2018

A woman extends her arm while speaking to three other seated women
Collage of three photos from the 2018 National Science Teachers Association Conference
Betsy McAllister engages an elementary school student in a hands-on demonstration.
A young woman looks at a GLOBE Cloud Chart in front of a young man wearing a lanyard
Panorama of the American Geophysical Union Fall Conference
A woman in a pink shirt walks amongst a group of seated people
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Screenshot of GPB page with an embedded YouTube video
Dozens of people posing on a set of stairs
Educators participate in a workshop
Students take apart a computer
College student demonstrates how to use an Infrared Thermometer outside

February 2018

Kids creating Spotlite video in front of a green screen
Planet 9 and Brown Dwarf
Snow covered trees in Tok, Alaska
Students learning on black laptops
Paige Graff and Susan Runco stand in front of a table with NASA astromaterial assets
A man uses a smartphone to do cloud observations
Super Blue Blood Moon
High school students study at a round table
PLANETS logo depicting silhouettes of children and a telescope in front of a purple sky

January 2018

Google map image with pins representing Trinidad and Tobago school locations
An astronaut gives a hands-on presentation to students
11 year-old girl holding 3D model of Supernova
A woman uses the NASA GLOBE Observer Mosquito Habitat Mapper App with a clip-on microscope

December 2017

Dr. Kimberly Arcand shows 8th graders her exhibit
A group of students pose outside

November 2017

Workshop participants pose in front of a U.S. flag at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge
Photo of children pointing at screen displaying space image
Geological Society of America GeoCareers mentor panel
Map of the U.S. with purple pins indicating NASA@ My Library pilot and partner libraries
The DEVELOP team standing in front of a poster of the globe
Salem Keizer Volcanoes fans and players wearing eclipse glasses
A man presents to students at a display table with a microscope
A young woman looks through a telescope
A boy and his father learn from a young man at a table outside
Screenshot of GO Mosquito Challenge infographic

October 2017

Civil Air Patrol (CAP) photograph of flooded woodland after Hurricane Harvey
Stacy Dees presents in front of a projector screen that reads
A little girl looks at soil through a magnifying glass
Two women observe a soil sample
A man teaches a few students outside
Collage of Ariel Anbar, students, and screenshots of Habitable Worlds online science class
4th grade students examine small rocks on paper plates
Dr. Paul Schenk presenting a keynote address
Tina Harte and three other women standing around a table with handouts
A man and woman present a Mission to Mars booth to cub scouts
Meteorologist Guillermo Quiroz standing in front of a wooden wall that several men are constructing
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September 2017

A man points at a whiteboard in a classroom of students
Several people standing in a room having a discussion
Artist's rendering of proposed Exploration Zone being considered for human landing site on Mars
Satellite image of Hurricane with the letters NOVA
Students wearing eclipse glasses
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Mimi Aung gives a presentation in front of the Mars Helicopter
High school students wearing eclipse glasses
Young students taking measurements with a rain gauge and instrument shelter

August 2017

Christian Mouton presents the NASA eClips Spotlite video on Physical Change to a service member
Mad Science Group Inc. logo
A group of teachers pose on the grass in front of trees
Three female teachers gather around buckets on a wooden deck
Students prepare balloons for launch
Still image from animation of U.S. air temperature observation starting at 1600 UT on Monday
A woman holds her hands up to a poster on a wood board
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July 2017

A group of people pose with the Catalina Station in the background
Two women look at a laptop screen
A woman wearing Wonder Woman sunglasses stands in front of an SSA display
A blonde woman in a red NASA shirt gives a presentation
Students and staff pose in front of mounted canvas prints
A woman talks to children seated around her on a rug
A group of people standing on the grass at the Virginia Beach Central Library SSA event
Brett Denevi, Nayi Castro, and Tim Livengood
Still from video of Begona Vila
Young male students from Arlington Career and Technical Center present their work to NASA GSFC SVS producers

June 2017

Still capture from a YouTube video from OpenSpace entitled
Crowds of people interact with NASA displays at Chicago’s Field Museum
A man gives a presentation in front of the Hyperwall
Elena Sparrow poses with Joanna Greene and her six students
A man wearing glasses designed for safely viewing the eclipse
Thumbnail of PowerPoint slide entitled “A Ticket to Explore JPL 2017”
A woman holding a gold statuette award
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Portrait photo of Professor Lynn Cominsky

May 2017

A young girl looks with interest at a tablet screen
A woman and girl hold binoculars from a box of NASA@ My Library materials
Box of solar eclipse materials
High school research project called
A large group of people pose for the camera indoors
A female high school student in a NASA t-shirt stands behind a table with a sun exhibit
A group of people pose for the camera in front of a backdrop

April 2017

A grey-haired man in a suit gives a presentation via Ustream
A blonde woman holds a phone above her head in front of a few young women
Six women webcam with a small classroom of middle schoolers
A man interacts with a display at a NASA booth
A man gives a presentation to teachers

March 2017

A young man presents from a poster to a group of young people
Three adolescent students playing a computer game
Illustration of TRAPPIST-1f's possible surface
Female attendees take educational materials at the NASA exhibit booth
James Howe and Jesse Moore pose for the camera

February 2017

Dr. C instructs an audience of citizen scientists
A group of smiling women and men
Four female teachers having a discussion next to a building
A group of people stand outside on the pavement in front of rocky hills
Google Map of SnowEx Flight Plan for local region
Two women provide information at a NASA Langley Research Center booth
Middle school students sit in a planetarium
Portion of a STAR_Net page with image of two girls and the title

January 2017

A man stands in front of a projected image of the sun
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December 2016

Eleven men and women seated at a long table listen to a blonde woman speak

November 2016

A little girl looks through a telescope
People look to the sky at Cosmolarium Castillo de Hornos de Segura; Hornos, Andalusia, Spain
Young participants holding signs at Catawba Science Center
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Facilitators listening to a NASA atmospheric scientist during the GLOBE training workshop
Cartoon yellow airplane with eyes and a mouth

October 2016

Girl Scouts leaning on large brown sphere
Participants applying role model strategies to real-work scenarios
Laura Schetter with students doing Hydrology Protocols

September 2016

Students from St. Ursula Academy, a GLOBE school
Female teacher and fourth graders sitting on the grass and reading
Participants learn about OSIRIS-REx from team member Dolores Hill

August 2016

Six smiling Goddard Helio team members posing outside at AAS
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June 2016

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May 2016

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Public librarians from rural New York communities learn about the Martian environment and Mars exploration

April 2016

Biologist Fabrice Genevois & teacher Laura Schetter collecting data in Antarctica
Students working with water and Estes rockets in a grassy field

March 2016

Troy Cline of Goddard Heliophysics, demonstrating the Solar Eclipse Tactile Map with a blind Micronesian Elder
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