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Enthusiastic teachers from around the

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country recently gathered at NASA's

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Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in

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Palmdale, California to participate in

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NASA's Airborne Research Experiences for

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Educators and Students or AREES.

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For two weeks the educators focused on NASA's

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Earth Science programs and flight research missions.

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In the first week a dozen elementary and high school

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teachers discovered how to find NASA
educational resources,

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learned about aircraft used for earth observation

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and data collection and discovered how

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engineers integrate specialized science

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instruments into aircraft for observing

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and monitoring terrestrial changes.

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An additional 14 educators from NASA's

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Explorer Schools program joined the ARESS

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participants during the second week,

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to participate in a simulated NASA ER-2

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earth science mission.

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The teachers compared imagery and data collected by

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science instruments from previous airborne missions

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to ground data and imagery obtained during a field site

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visit in central California.

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And we're able to actually look at abstract ideas

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and concepts that are normally on paper

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and we actually had the opportunity to

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travel to different sites,

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actually conduct some research and do some

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hands-on experimentation.

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Aktutay expressed confidence that the training,

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speakers, materials and hands-on activities

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will give ARESS attendees the

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tools to create effective education

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action plans.