{"id":3111,"date":"2009-08-06T23:26:01","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T03:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=3111"},"modified":"2009-08-06T23:26:01","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T03:26:01","slug":"nasa-educator-resource-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/06\/nasa-educator-resource-centers.html","title":{"rendered":"NASA Educator Resource Centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With NASA in the news so much lately(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/shuttle\/main\/index.html\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/cm\/blog\/Ares%20I-X\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/imagegallery\/image_feature_1438.html\">3<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/mer\/images\/mer20090806a.html\">4<\/a>), it seems a good reminder that the organization has nearly 70 Educator Resource Centers across the country.\u00a0 These are fantastic resources to tap for information relevant to a wide range of learners.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/audience\/foreducators\/k-4\/learning\/F_Educator_Resource_Center_Network.html\"><strong>NASA Educator Resource Center Network<\/strong><\/a> web site:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NASA Educator Resource Centers provide services to those in the                education community including teachers, scout leaders, public and                private schools, homeschoolers, museums, planetariums, colleges and universities, and other education-related                groups.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>It helps to be precise about your interests and requests, so have                a topic and grade level in mind when you call. ERCs have limited                amounts of materials available.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>NASA educational resources fall under categories such as Earth                Science, Space Science, Living and Working in Space, Aeronautics,                Aerospace, and topics related to Mathematics, Science, Technology,                and Geography. Materials are designed to supplement K-University                curriculum. Complete curriculum guides are not available from NASA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I had the opportunity to visit the Educator Resource Center at the Kennedy Space Center a few years ago.\u00a0 They were helpful, enthusiastic, informative, and had loads of reference material.\u00a0 It reminded me of what a good library should strive for!<\/p>\n<p><em>f<\/em><em>ound via the <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.nasa.gov\/cm\/blog\/diyPodcastBlog\/posts\/post_1249408954175.html\">NASA Do-It-Yourself Podcast blog<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With NASA in the news so much lately(1, 2, 3, 4), it seems a good reminder that the organization has nearly 70 Educator Resource Centers across the country.\u00a0 These are fantastic resources to tap for information relevant to a wide &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/06\/nasa-educator-resource-centers.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2928,2935,2943,2947,2948,2964,2967],"tags":[5346,4992,4993,5358,5361,4950,3073,5375,5378],"class_list":["post-3111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-government","category-libraries","category-medical","category-news","category-science","category-space","tag-education","tag-educator-resource-center","tag-kennedy-space-center","tag-libraries","tag-medical","tag-nasa","tag-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration","tag-science","tag-space"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-Ob","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}