U.S. Satellite's Curriculum Product Pipeline

Goal: To increase mathematics scores on state tests, weather data, either real-time or canned, is the hook of this three-phase product supplementing math curriculum where activities run 8-16 weeks.

Students in 4th grade utilize a simple workbook, or, if they use current weather information, they use computer labs and online classrooms. They learn meteorology while mastering concepts in mathematics. Students are motivated to use current weather maps, satellite imagery and quantitative weather data relating their perspective of local weather to national weather and then to mathematics. Strategies for test-taking are mastered. Test scores in participating schools have seen sharp mathematics increases: 100% proficiency in 4th grade math is a frequent score in participating schools. In 2006 WDLC has contributed to 90%+ Mastery (Advanced Proficient) scores. One low-performing school working with WDLC has increased to 84% passing rate (2006) from 16% several years ago.

Goal: To increase math, science and language arts achievement.

Students in 5th and 6th grade become science content experts in air, life, water and land while exploring 3D views of Earth using exciting, simple-to-use viewers. The project excites students in science and includes a strong mathematics and language arts achievement component in addition to real-world explorations. A major goal is to prepare students for Earth system science courses in high school and beyond so that they will be informed citizens, capable of making societal decisions. Using simple interfaces, students explore and navigate exciting areas on Earth, including flying over and around 3D (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) worlds.

U.S. Satellite's award-winning flagship product, Signals of Spring is a classroom-based curriculum. Tracking animals in real-time, it engages students and teachers in authentic, collaborative investigations of bird, land, and marine animal migrations while preparing students in science content for state-based standardized tests. To make the content meaningful, Signals of Spring makes use of real-time NASA and NOAA Earth imagery. Scientists interact with students tracking and analyzing the movements of birds and marine animals, including bald eagles, polar bears, sandhill cranes, red-tailed hawks, seals, and sea turtles. U.S. Satellite encourages you to explore the Signals of Spring website to get a better appreciation of how students and teachers use the program.

NOAA-sponsored Signals of Spring — ACES [Animals in Curriculum-based Ecosystem Studies] will capture the interest of your middle and high school students. Students will learn science with the context of the ocean, with high-quality curriculumbased activities. They use NOAA remote sensing data. The goal of is to improve ocean literacy.

ACES is an important, necessary expansion of Signals of Spring, an award-winning, classroom-based curriculum program in which students use Earth imagery to explain the movement of animals that are tracked by NOAA’s operational satellites. ACES picks up where Signals of Spring leaves off, as ACES curriculum introduces the environmental issues the animals face, and the environments of NOAA’s National Marine Sanctuaries (NMS).

Sponsored by:
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA Award NA06SEC4690006)

SPRINTT brings cutting-edge polar science research with an Alaska Native perspective into K-12 classrooms, bridging the science and society divide while inspiring the next generation of polar explorers. Teachers are trained how to teach life, Earth and physical science content in a polar context. Polar scientists inform the content of, and participate in training. Classrooms utilize high-quality, standards-based curricular materials. A user-friendly interface simplifies data where students perform their own authentic polar systems research projects.

Sponsored by:
National Science Foundation
(NSF Award 0732793)