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Astrobiology in Secondary Classrooms (ASC)
Curriculum Development Project
Project Abstract
A team of middle and high school teachers along with scientists from NASA Goddard, and college professors from the Minority Institute Astrobiology Collaborative (MIAC) are developing an interdisciplinary astrobiology curriculum, Astrobiology in Secondary Classrooms (ASC). The ASC project will reflect many aspects the research at the Goddard Center for Astrobiology. The NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) selected scientists at NASA Goddard for a five-year research effort that will explore how organic molecules are created in interstellar clouds and delivered to forming planets. Dr. Michael Mumma leads a team that is focusing on the early environments of the Earth before and during the period when life arose. Their investigations include the origin of the Earth and other planets and the investigation of sources of water and other prebiotic chemicals on the ancient Earth.
Client
SSAI / SESDA
Goddard Center for Astrobiology
The 2006 ASC Report (Download as a PDF)
The 2007 ASC Report (Download as a Word Document)
Funding Agency
NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)
Timeline
June 30, 2004 to July 1, 2010
Partners
Goddard Center for Astrobiology
SSAI / SESDA
TSU Institute for Understanding Biological Systems
Minority Institute Astrobiology Collaborative (MIAC)
Carnegie Institute of Washington Center for Astrobiology
University of Tennessee, as a member of the Indiana-Princeton-Tennessee Astrobiology
Initiative (IPTAI)
Tennessee Space Grant Consortium
Resources provided by the NAI-MIRS program, the NASA SEMAA program at Tennessee State University, the Vanderbilt University Dyer Observatory, the Lunar Planetary Institute, the Arizona State University Mars Imaging Project, and the SETI Institute.
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