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Field Investigations to Enable Solar System Science and Exploration
Information and Supplemental Materials For The Classroom
The following materials may be used before or after your field trip to the Palouse Discovery Science Center. The lessons and additional content are designed to aid your class in better understanding current methods used in science and how scientists are conducting planetary research. For more information about the Mars Bound field trip lesson your students will receive when visiting, email edudir@palousescience.org or call 509-332-6869.
What is NASA FINESSE?
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Field Investigations to Enable Solar System Science and Exploration (NASA FINESSE) team is a group of scientists and educators who conduct field research to better our understanding of how we can explore moons, mars, and near-earth asteroids.
How is the Palouse Discovery Science Center involved in FINESSE?
Tiffany Sheely, the education director at the Palouse Discovery Science Center (PDSC), was selected to join the NASA FINESSE team in the summer of 2015. With the team, she conducted field research at Craters of the Moon National Monument. Tiffany has since returned from this experience and developed curriculum, presentations, and lessons to increase public awarness and understanding of current space exploration and research.
Currently, the PDSC is offering a field trip lesson option based on this fieldwork experience to classes grades 2-8 visiting the science center. In addition, watch for daily lessons and Astronomy Day at the PDSC which will also present educational opportunities inspired by NASA FINESSE fieldwork.
To learn more about scheduling your class for a Mars Bound Field Trip Lesson, please download the 2015-2016 field trip organizer below.
Mars Bound Supplemental Materials For Educators
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Videos
Below are educational videos about NASA FINESSE, fieldwork, tools, and careers. Check back...more coming soon!