Student Doing Research for NASA

This article describes a middle school research program that helps young adults to focus on the effects of UV light on weather conditions. Topic can be found on a specific website for SunSH... See More

This article describes a middle school research program that helps young adults to focus on the effects of UV light on weather conditions. Topic can be found on a specific website for SunSHINE. The program can vary in length from a month to several years. Students collect data and analyze it to draw conclusions. NASA scientists use the student’s work to further their understandings as well. This is an interesting idea to engage students in real time data collecting.

Weather inquiry

Weather is probably the most commonly available phenomenon for us to study and predict, and probably one of the least used at the high school and middle school levels. But as this article sh... See More

Weather is probably the most commonly available phenomenon for us to study and predict, and probably one of the least used at the high school and middle school levels. But as this article shows us, it can be the foundation for learning about inquiry and the scientific process skills. A very good self-assessment rubric is included.