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Get Ready! Get Set! For the 2024 Solar Eclipse
On Monday, April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will cross North America, making it a wonderful learning opportunity to share with your students and inspire their love for science. Learn more at Eclipses - NASA Science.
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Clay Center
Visit the Planetarium Theater Now Showing- Autumn Skies Live Show -Journey through the night sky and learn how to identify the constellations. Then, follow along and soar to distant galaxies and relate them to the current astronomy news of today. Stay tuned so you don't miss the Magic Tree House Space Mission -Travel with Jack and Annie, siblings, who are taken on a wondrous journey through the universe in an adventure of learning.
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SMART Centre
Participate with their public programs for safely observing the April 8th, 2024 Sol-ar Eclipse. These programs will be held on Saturday afternoons from 1:00 PM to 1:45 PM on March 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th, and April 6th, 2024. Sessions will take place at 1410 Main Street, Wheeling, WV. Additionally, SMART-Center will offer educators in Wheeling, WV, help to create an onsite Sol-ar Eclipse Program in the classroom or for the entire school.
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Texas Instruments
The upcoming solar eclipse is a great time to engage students in the Earth, moon, and sun relationship. TI activities and simulations that explore the topics of lunar phases, Earth’s seasons, and the masses of celestial objects can be a great way to provide students with some insight into what an eclipse is and why it’s so exciting!” If teachers need TI's software, email M. Grooms at mgrooms@ti.com to get a complimentary license to share the activity with students for a whole group experience.
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NASA IV & V Education Resource Center (ERC)
NASA IV&V ERC is excited to support schools and organizations that are interested in learning more about the upcoming eclipse and want to plan an eclipse party. They are collaborating with several organizations across the state to engage the public in safely viewing the eclipse in addition to their traditional educator workshop series, which loans out solar telescopes, sunspotters, and solar scopes.
Also, of special note, the ERC has a unique solar observing educator certification to borrow the Space Weather kit to use with the eclipse and an Eclipse Journal for elementary. Contact Josh Revels for more information.
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Coming Soon!
A list of Solar Eclipse Activities in WV
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Coming Soon!
A Website of Resources for the 2024 Solar Eclipse
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Green Bank Observatory
Request a Visit! The Observatory manages the WV Science Public Outreach Team and if you’re a WV educator, you can invite our team to visit your school or organization. WV SPOT trains undergraduate students to deliver engaging presentations and activities to K12 audiences. Prepare your students for the April eclipse with Star of Our World (grades K-8) or Space Weather (grades 9-12) presentations and associated activities! This program is free and perfect for classes, whole-school assemblies, after-school programs, STEM nights, and virtual visits!
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Upcoming Online Professional Development
with NASA Solar Eclipse Ambassador Dr. Gordon Telepun!
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Register for Plant the Moon Challenge
The Plant the Moon Challenge (PTMC), developed by the Institute of Competition Sciences, is a teacher-led student global science experiment, learning activity, and inspirational project-based learning challenge to see who can grow the best crops using lunar regolith.
Apply for a WVSGC mini-grant for supplies. Register by Jan 5th as the deadline was extended ~ each participating team will receive a PTMC activity kit (valued at $420 with an additional $100 teacher stipend for experimental supplies).
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Want A Solar Eclipse Challenge? Get Ready for the 2024 Texas Instruments Codes Contest
The annual TI Codes Contest tests students' creative and innovative thinking! The challenge: Devise a solution that automates or optimizes a process or product based on the theme "safety and security."
The teams of student contestants must use TI technology (technology loans available at no charge for those who make it to the development round) combined with their coding, design, and building skills to create a model of the solution. Details will be available when the contest launches on Jan. 8, 2024.
You are strongly encouraged to subscribe NOW to TI’s email list for official contest updates.
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Grand Vue Park
Is just outside of Moundsville, WV - will serve as the host site for a public event, safely bringing the April 8th, 2024, Solar Eclipse to local students, educators, and the general public through a partnership with SMART Centre Market and Near Earth Object Foundation.
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Our Partners
Providing STEM Education opportunities to West Virginians for over 150 years.
~"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." – Helen Keller
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About WVSU CASTEM NASA AEL
Because We Seek to Engage, Inspire, and Educate Youth, Families and Teachers…
Our ultimate goal is to help children to excel in an interconnected world. Curiosity and a love of learning are the best things we can instill in our participants. We do this by offering engaging and innovative hands on activities that allow participants to explore and discover by utilizing awe-inspiring subject matter based on real world scenarios and cutting-edge research.
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