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SPOT Presentation Evaluation

Click here to fill out a Presentation Evaluation after we have visited your school.

 

Requesting a Show

Presentations are free of charge to all Montana schools. Please bear in mind that schools more than four hours away from Bozeman should be able to gather at least one hundred students for a presentation.

Click here to request a show!


Become part of Montana's aurora network!

MSU and Montana's Tribal Colleges have designed and built a network of green light aurora detectors. To register your cell phone to receive a text message when the detectors sense an aurora, visit:

The Montana Aurora Detector Network Website

 

NASA Education Activity Training (NEAT)

NEAT offers NASA training to educators who wish to bring science into their classrooms. Apply to have a NEAT workshop at your school and download the featured activities here.

 

Science Horizons Initiative Opportunity

Looking for ways to improve Science Education, and get paid for it?! Check out this great opportunity!

Science Horizons Initiative Website

 

Solar Observing

What is the Sun doing today? What is the current space weather? Where can you purchase safe solar observing glasses?

Current Solar Activity

Current Space Weather

External Site for Ordering Solar Observing Glasses

 

Become involved with Citizen Science Projects

Sometimes, the ability of the human brain to search data and recognize patterns is better than any computer. Put your brain to good use and help scientists to map the surface of the Moon and to classify distant galaxies!

Help study the Moon's surface

Help explore the universe and classify galaxies

Become a Moon Mapper

 

Download Classroom Activities

Below you will find educational materials which you are free to download and use in your classroom either as preparation for our visit to your school, or to continue the lesson after we have gone. There are also links to various NASA websites that you and your students might find fascinating. We have sifted through activities and curriculua created by NASA and selected what we believe to be the `cream of the crop.'

Clicking on the appropriate grade level next to the show that you have requested will take you to the page with the material that is most relevent. Most of the files are PDF's. If you are unable to open PDF files free software can be found here. Feel free to contact us if you have any problems with the downloads.

Enjoy!
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K-4 5-8 9-12
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