Outreach

PBS's Design Squad Nation offers a collection of videos, online games, educator guides, and hands-on activities that can be used at home, in school, in after-school programs, and at outreach events to tap into kids' ingenuity and to get them thinking like engineers.

Through our online communities, Design Squad Nation (for kids ages 8 and older) and NOVA Labs (for ages 13 and up) together give kids a continuum of opportunities for engaging in authentic research and design projects.

http://pbskids.org/designsquad/

http://www.facebook.com/DesignSquadNation

PBS LearningMedia™ is your destination for easy, instant access to tens of thousands of classroom-ready, digital resources, including videos, interactives, audio resources, images, and in-depth lesson plans. You can search, save, and share with ease. Best of all, PBS LearningMedia is free for educators.

Through its partnership with PBS LearningMedia, NOVA Labs will develop strategies, resources, and professional development that specifically support teachers and students in using NOVA Labs in classroom and school settings.

http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/

http://www.facebook.com/pbslearningmedia

The award-winning, nonprofit Science Buddies empowers K-12 students, parents, and teachers to quickly and easily find free project ideas and help in all areas of science, from astronomy to zoology.

Science Buddies works with NOVA Labs to connect teens with fun science activities and science fair projects that extend the Labs experience beyond the web.

http://www.sciencebuddies.org/

SciGirls is a multimedia initiative that serves girls, families, and educators in both English and Spanish. Based on best practices in STEM education for girls, SciGirls emphasizes teamwork, problem solving, the freedom to express ideas, and support throughout the process. SciGirl resources model important skills, including prediction, observation, measurement, classification, experimentation, interpretation, and communication, which serve as the foundation for all scientific and engineering endeavors.

http://pbskids.org/scigirls/

http://scigirlsconnect.org/

Outreach

The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) mission works to understand the solar variations that influence life and technology on Earth. The SDO mission is designed to help us understand the Sun's influence on Earth and near-Earth space by studying the solar atmosphere.

Data from the SDO mission is used in the NOVA Sun Lab, and our partnership enables Labs to stay connected to current solar research and the leading scientists in the field. We will continue to partner on teacher professional development and social media campaigns.

http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/

http://www.facebook.com/NASASDO

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The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) is a joint collaboration between the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Harvard College Observatory. CfA scientists are organized into six research divisions and study the origin, evolution, and ultimate fate of the universe.

http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is home to the nation's largest organization of scientists, engineers, and technologists, who build spacecraft, instruments, and new technology to study Earth, the Sun, our solar system, and the universe. Named for American rocketry pioneer Dr. Robert H. Goddard, the center was established in 1959 as NASA's first space flight complex. Goddard and its several facilities are critical in carrying out NASA's missions of space exploration and scientific discovery.

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/index.html

http://www.facebook.com/NASA.GSFC

Outreach

The CLEAN project, a part of the National Science Digital Library, provides a reviewed collection of educational resources coupled with the tools to enable an online community to share and discuss teaching about climate and energy science.

CLEAN works with NOVA Labs to connect educators with teaching resources that are both scientifically sound and pedagogically effective to build middle and high school students' understanding of the core ideas in climate and energy science.

http://cleanet.org/index.html

Energy Kids is the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s award-winning educational website, featuring more than 100 pages of fun educational content for kids, parents, and teachers. Kids can learn about energy and challenge their brains with energy Sudoku, crossword puzzles, and word searches. Teachers can use the site’s easy-to-understand explanations of energy sources and uses, and find lesson plans and energy science fair projects.

Energy Kids and its more detailed sister-site, Energy Explained, are part of the agency’s energy literacy initiative. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is the statistical and analytical agency within the U.S. Department of Energy. EIA collects, analyzes, and disseminates independent and impartial energy information to promote sound policymaking, efficient markets, and public understanding of energy and its interaction with the economy and the environment.

http://www.eia.gov/kids/

http://www.eia.gov/energyexplained

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The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is the only national laboratory solely dedicated to advancing renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies from concept to commercial application. For 35 years, NREL innovations, analysis, and expertise have enabled the emergence of a U.S. clean energy industry and led to numerous success stories from across the laboratory. NREL's 327-acre main campus in Golden, Colorado, is a living model of sustainable energy; the laboratory also operates the National Wind Technology Center near Boulder, Colorado.

http://www.nrel.gov/about/accomplishments.html